It's best to keep everything in a single company to start with. Before going further with my answer, I'm compelled to tell you that launching multiple products *rarely* works and unless you have very significant prior success, most investors will take interpret diversification as a very negative...
There is no such list and that's not the way you'd make a connection with a great advisor anyway. First, your best advisor won't care that your company is based in Southeast Asia. Focus on identifying people who have significant expertise and credibility in your business area. Make your own ...
My assumption is that fast-food chains begin as restaurants in a single location. Then, if they're successful, they expand – with or without franchising. Honestly, I know next to nothing about running a business in the food industry. But I can help you with 1 important first step: creating you...
Identifying user personas is critical to your agenda. I originally come from South Africa, where the best "tech" startups are fundamentally copies of successful businesses in the USA or EU. The advantage, of course, is that they can copy many of the aspects of the original market leader: UX, UI...
Bear in mind that the approach Amazon took was during a time in which e-commerce was still just taking hold and was far from commonplace. Of course, starting with your own products and building an audience of shoppers gives you some leverage in attracting sellers when you change to a marketpla...
That's great what you've done so far! I've raised over a million dollars specifically from angel investors. Raising money is usually a full time job. In order to get angel investment you need to put together a good pitch deck, practice your pitch and be prepared for good questions. Next you ...
If you can find what you're looking for by using a Google API service, then the answer is yes. If you must scrape Google search results, Google is smarter than you or any developer, so will eventually figure out you're scrapping their data + completely block your IP. https://commoncrawl.org - p...
Q: How to build a dream house when you are not a builder? A: Talk to an architect ... or a foreman ... or someone who has built a house like the one you envision. If you're not sure what kind of scope your web project requires, that's fine. At least, begin by talking to a software developer or...
I'd suggest doing three things to narrow down the field: 1.Try to sketch the business model for the startup idea http://businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas 2.Get good at doing quick and dirty market sizing of opportunities 3.Check if you are passionate enough about the idea to potentially spend...
It really depends on what your product is, but ultimately you want to learn about their experience using your product (what obstacles they've come up against, what features they use most/get the most value out of, things they don't understand, etc). You can also calculate an early NPS (net promo...