Strategy Questions

I have recently started reading the blog and I feel it has been really helpful and helped me anticipate problems that I would not have foreseen otherwise. My question is related to the decision of...

Getting Started Strategy

asked Jan 31 '13 at 00:52

Trana
24 points

I am Sakthivel from india. I am willing to start a retail selling business on all solar products to general public in chennai. There are few facts for this decision. My state is in deficiency of...

Getting Started Strategy Ideas Business

asked Feb 6 '13 at 16:23

Codebrain
187 points

a colleagues and I are trying to find the most appropriate name for our startup, is about software consulting for small companies. We already have established a small company that we deal with web...

Strategy Branding Naming

asked Feb 8 '13 at 23:25

Nikolai
125 points

What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, especially a month or two before they renew with them? Is there any business term for what I...

Strategy Business Model Business Plan Business

asked Dec 15 '12 at 17:20

Anilkumble789
6 points

I took a course on gamification it cleared a lot of thing up but I'm still confuse. A gamified app or website has to be build from ground up through the lens of a game designer. So, I think is a...

Getting Started Strategy Competition Business Plan User Experience

asked Dec 23 '12 at 13:33

Zapoo
303 points

We are currently creating a spin-off from the university, that offers services to biotech/pharma companies. We have tried to reach our first customers by cold emails, but we were not very...

Marketing Strategy Customers Phone

asked Dec 27 '12 at 18:55

Flow
114 points

We are a B2B web company, which offers a tool for online sellers ( amazon, ebay ). Since we got more and more free trial user, our ratio from trial to paying ( which was before near 80% ) got...

Marketing Sales Strategy Saas

asked Dec 6 '12 at 07:43

Michael Hirn
21 points

I am in the midst of writing a follow-up article to one I have written to address some myths about startups and operations executives. In 15 years I have been through 9 startups (co-founder in 2...

Strategy COO Operations Scaling

asked Oct 30 '12 at 12:48

Apollo Sinkevicius
3,323 points

I am starting to get very frustrated, after 2 yrs of crazy amounts of work and $70K invested and having my website online for 1 yr I already have 120,000 monthly visitors but still can't monetize...

Strategy Ecommerce

asked Sep 4 '12 at 04:31

Daniel
66 points

We have a profitable hardware and SaaS business. some clients want to obtain a 12-month financing to buy our hardware. we need extra money to allow it. that would increase our monthly income by...

Strategy Finance Investors Valuation

asked Aug 24 '12 at 02:14

Sd Reyes
156 points

I am creating a new website and it's a very common one, about upcoming events. The difference of me and the competition is how I deliver the events to the people that is kind of strange and clever...

Strategy

asked Jul 25 '12 at 20:58

Nikolai
125 points

We have just launched (yesterday actually!) a website for our startup - providing mobile and Facebook app development services. Sales will totally drive from leads generated from the website....

Marketing Sales Strategy Inbound Marketing SEO

asked Jul 21 '12 at 17:21

Ali
179 points

I have developed a local upcoming events web page, that aims to deliver the events in a different way than other similar services. The event organisers will list their events but at a cost. My...

Strategy Business Model

asked Jul 22 '12 at 23:49

Nikolai
125 points

I am starting a new startup that operates a local online business directory where you can find businesses (much like YP.com or superpages.com.) I am divided between the two revenue...

Strategy Monetization

asked Jul 23 '12 at 10:37

Jacob Hart
6 points

We are a startup and our project consists of 4-5 sections, each one will have several standard and advanced features. What we will seek in the future is a funding. We are currently developing our...

Strategy

asked May 12 '12 at 21:26

Nikolai
125 points

I want to make a website, that is by definition a software, but I don't remind seeing any open source websites. My website like many is supposed to pay itself by ads. Is there a reason why I...

Strategy Website Open Source

asked Mar 29 '12 at 21:53

Michelpm
109 points

I've tried feeding the question to Google, and various smaller alternatives of it too, but this seems to be the only page with even tangentially relevant info. My ultimate goal is to sell...

Strategy Traffic Revenue Long Term Strategies

asked Mar 31 '12 at 21:52

Aditya Menon
112 points

we released a very limited version of our product but it misses lots of functionality. Our income will be based on retailers and there are certain functionality they will be looking for. And of...

Strategy Features Planning

asked Mar 7 '12 at 08:30

Altuure
103 points

I want to launch different web services which have different co founders under one company, And still keep them separated from each other? for example should one of the apps not do so well I don't...

Getting Started Strategy Legal Branding

asked Mar 9 '12 at 19:01

I Scotts
152 points

Maybe the title is not the best to describe my question. We are a team that we want to create/organize some startups under our company name. Suppose you have this scenario. Our company is named...

Strategy

asked Feb 22 '12 at 11:39

Nikolai
125 points