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What is your biggest challenge in customer acquisition in eCommerce?

Serapio Escudero Save Beach Ventanilla—Peru; Salvemos La Playa de Ventanilla—Peru

August 21st, 2017

todo lo que vendes tiene que ser bueno para que el cliente pueda cambiar de opinion si no ocurre esto tu vitrina esta mal

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Are there any dev shops or 'startup consultant' firms with 'accelerators' that aren't scams?

ghanisth golchha Manager Airocorp, Explorer, Thinker and Inquisitive

August 21st, 2017

Like any other organization a startup is a business and these requisite task don't sustain a start up for long. In order to obtain funding your company... More

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Would it be better for my smal business to contract out it's digital market / SEO or to bring on a partner to handle it.

Marko Tiosavljevic CEO at Cloud Industry

Last updated on August 21st, 2017

Its better to partner up with some experienced team. It will secure growth of your ecommerce. Other choice is to go forward yourself, in that point... More

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How much should people pay for social media management?

vu-nguyen Cofounder & CEO of Nilead informatics

August 21st, 2017

I'm quite unsure what this type of service can offer? Will you generate contents for your clients to post on social network? Will you help them to... More

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iOS app development: Hire in or contract a company?

Last updated on August 21st, 2017

Dear Ken, It's a really difficult decision. As an owner, you want to control and track all tasks that are in a progress at the same time you can't... More

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Share your experience of risk and calculated risk. How did you separate the two?

Rob Davis Managing Partner at Critical Start

August 21st, 2017

Risk is what founders take - only seeing success where everyone else truly sees that most likely you will fail. Calculated risk is what Venture Capitalists,... More

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How much should people pay for social media management?

Paul Garcia President at TABLE

August 20th, 2017

Hi Melissa, Appreciating that you consider your idea exciting, I'm going to recommend you rethink your plan and consider something else in the same... More

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How to hire a CTO for a hardware company?

Hal Pluenneke Marketing Guy, Technical sales, Numerous Start-up

August 20th, 2017

You might find a masters level foreign student at a University who could take on the job as part of their technical training. If there are really... More

Question · Contracting · Digital marketing

Would it be better for my smal business to contract out it's digital market / SEO or to bring on a partner to handle it.

John Hannan Ecommerce

Last updated on August 20th, 2017

I've been looking to hire a local advertising firm to handle the digital marketing of my brand. I live in a city that does not have a lot of options... More

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Will automated dev shops make it easier for startups to release products?

Peter Fisk Creator of Rails Express Rapid Application Development framework.

August 20th, 2017

I have been building a solution for automating web development for Ruby-on-Rails - specifically replacing all HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with automatically... More

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Do you recommend starting more than one startup at one time or should you rather focus on one startup at a time?

Ashish Bhatia CoFounder, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Investment Banking Technologies

August 20th, 2017

Unless the 2-3 ideas you have are linked in some way, I would echo what others have recommended - start with one, validate if what you are thinking... More

Question · Social Media

How much should people pay for social media management?

Melissa Lovera Licenciature in Corporative Communication, Knowledge in Social Media, CEO of my own new bussiness

Last updated on August 20th, 2017

I'm starting my own bussiness of this and I'm trying to make the perfect plan with good prices for my future clients

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Question · Product Sourcing

USA Retailers and Brands prefer to work with Wholesalers/Middleman?

Dan Dan Co-founder of a few Startups

August 20th, 2017

Hi, I was told by people that USA Retailers and Brands prefer to work with Wholesalers/Middleman? They do not want to go directly to factory especially... More

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Early stage, should I be trying to get a cofounder (solo right now) or work on a complete business plan?

Bill Lennan Red Rope Social - everyone is an influencer.

August 20th, 2017

I've tried the partner route and 3 times couldn't get it together. This time I started a business expecting to go it alone and it's working. The... More

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How to hire a CTO for a hardware company?

Jennifer Ernst

August 20th, 2017

Look up People Connect, Max Shapiro. They specialize in placing people pre-funding. They work remotely, so I don't think location is a problem. Consider... More