Well, technically - Any. ;-) Hey there - I'm a new business technology trainer with 6 years experience helping new online business owners get off the ground. If your goal is to make money quickly, then a service based business will be the fastest - you figure out what you can offer to whom, fin...
One challenge that you may be facing is that Africa has a tremendous problem with fraudulent businesses running online and telephone scams. With that said, some industry experts say that Africa is still a developing country and offers many great opportunities such as commercial real estate. Ho...
If you're willing to pay 25 cents per person, you can try Amazon's Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Here's an article about its successful use for surveys: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/03/05/279669610/post-a-survey-on-mechanical-turk-and-watch-the-result...
Yes there is a huge market for learning online. Just like clarity you just have to find the ones that fit your style of teaching. Your biggest competition will be all those free teachers on youtube. Your biggest expense will be marketing.
I work with a lot of startups as an advisor or thru 500S. Figure out what the biggest value offering for your idea is, create the simplest product that only achieves that big value and nothing else (if this means you don't write code, then great). Get out into the real world and start actually ch...
Hi! The quick answer is that simple invention ideas are great as they are the fastest and least expensive to develop, yet can still be highly profitable. I run a consumer product firm which has developed hundreds of inventions for home-based inventors or small product firms - Essentially we tak...
I believe that personal passion is the only sustainable way to pursue any idea and / or startup in the medium and longer term. In the short term, there's loads of other things that keep you going: momentum, money, press, great feedback, investor interest, new customers etc. What these things how...
No, I think outsourcing this is at worst dangerous and at best lazy. Furthermore, unless this is highly focused on a type of user, I wouldn't trust that you could build user panels that were really of my potential customers. And therein lies the rub. Without real customers, it's impact and val...
Have you watched Jonathan Fields' Good Life Project http://www.goodlifeproject.com/ Maybe that'll get you some ideas and inspiration. I know Jonathan and could connect you. I may have some other ideas but would need more information to know if they'd be worth trying. Let's connect
Pre-orders are always great for testing demand, eliciting end-user feedback and even generating a little revenue! You just have to be sure that you can fulfill whatever product or service the customer is paying for, beta or otherwise. Relative to b2b vs. b2c, I can't really speak to that based on...