It's difficult to provide you any real advice without knowing anything about your service/product, or what a 'signup' means (is it a free version of your product, a signup to your mailing list or something else) but generally speaking it can be any of the following reasons: 1) People sign up to ...
There are a lot of ways..LinkedIn can help greatly and even for that matter freelance sites like Elance, Guru, etc if you are tight on budget. Specialist outsourcing company can be of great help but finding them can become tricky at times. I happen to use TechCusp.com for my company and although ...
The success of scaling-up, irrespective of logical explanations, relies on people, support, and contribution. Opinions and views of stakeholders, internal-external, should be taken as a due diligence exercise. That's where you need to have a steering group to visualize the future, and collaborati...
It's good that you know what you want, but I expect that here you will be constrained by the market. I've been involved in startups a long time, and I have honestly never of a developer who is not only being asked to work for no salary, but to buy in with cash. You may see it as "giving away equi...
If you are US based, there are some nonprofit organizations that can help you connect with the right people. Two off the top of my head are: SCORE (https://www.score.org/) and SBDC (http://americassbdc.org/). Uncle Sam loves small business because they help build roads and stuff so this advice i...
Social media, at times, could get tricky to understand. That's where you need an expert advisor to help you leverage social media, making most out of time and capital investment. Even tagged as social, no two social media platforms are same and likewise varies their usage for specific business ob...
NO, it's in no ways normal. In reading how you have framed the question, this investor sounds to be acting in bad faith and is also setting you up to fail by introducing terms that are not standard to how quality investors interact with their investee companies. It is however very standard to h...
Hi There would be 2 different types of business. In the marketplace you have to get both the users and the payer so you have to have 2 set of tactics. Some of them are: 1. creating your own supply (for some time you work as the supplier) i.e. Uber hired guys, Udemy produc coures on its own 2. you...
The answer will depend on various factors, including the structure of the company, your position/title/duties, your shares, remuneration you are receiving (salary by T-4, contractor (no T-4), dividends, etc.), does the company employee Canadians or permanent residents, profitability of the compan...
There are three types of metrics that you want to collect. 1) Aggregate metrics 2) Cohort metrics 3) Funnel metrics A tool like Flurry is OK for aggregate metrics. Google Analytics for mobile is probably the better choice depending on your needs. For cohort and funnel metrics, I prefer using ...