Making a new company will cost some money up front with no certainty of commercial success. A simple workaround, if you both know and trust each other, is to make a shareholder's agreement for the company to be incorporated and a contract saying how the shares will be divided. Since you're the ...
What you're talking about is starting a business with the first customer already identified. You could even make the sale and sign a contract before you start. This is a great way to reduce the risk in doing something new. For added advantage, see what you might do to recycle the systems and ...
Jon Loomer has an excellent library of resource that can help you: https://www.jonloomer.com/tag/facebook-custom-audiences/
Facebook is a good start, but you might find iAds a little pricey when just starting since I assume you don't have all your metrics down yet, like LTV, ARPU, etc. These are very important since you'll know what you can afford to spend to acquire each user. As next steps there are many networks I...
This question is very broad so it's tough to answer, but I'll give it a shot. Is there anyone else making money in that market? If so, how? What business models are working well? Take the automobile industry. There are hundreds of business and revenue models in the auto industry (wholesale, re...
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I have built several multi-million dollar businesses using (2) very simple questions: "What makes you say that...." and "Tell me more...." No matter what someone says to you, you just keep asking one (or both) of the questions. If you do it 4 or 5 times in a row you'll learn everything you ever...
SaaS. Always. I am a founder of a Startup about to launch our first product (mobile app). We looked at this very question. In the end we looked at the impact the decision would have on our company's valuation. Based on my initial, informal discussions with funders in my area (Canadian Atlanti...
Start by reviewing everything your competitors do.
(I'm a small biz attorney who helps people with copyright, trademark, and other IP law, and I'm answering per U.S. law.) As soon as you take your idea and put it into a tangible format (write it down, create an infographic, record a video), then that writing/infographic/video is automatically ...