amazing question. Relevant to me right as I look for a developer myself. There are not a lot of people looking for app developers, so ads would have been the last thing I would have suggested. An easily scalable business model is to hire local sales contractors to find and funnel leads thems...
Many of the target groups you listed have their own proprietary contract processes/apps in place. Low hanging fruit may be independent consultants, freelancers, and small business owners. They deal with contracts all the time. If you are going to continue targetting real estate, financial, and ...
Great question! Here are the basics: The Lean Startup by Eric Reis http://www.amazon.com/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous/dp/0307887898 Running Lean by Ash Maurya http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=03VER05GWM6QV80D49ZH *e...
There is no such thing as "a best place to pitch an angel". You fish bass where you find them...
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...
How about 'getting the word out' by talking about your startup and app on podcasts. You can start with my daily show called The App Guy Podcast. Subscribe On iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-app-guy/id771670010?mt=2 then contact me through my website http://TheAppGuy.co
1. Congrats on building a successful business. 2. It is important to look at your existing business and see what other services you can offer to the existing client base before you try to pivot the business. 3. What services do your customers use other firms for that you could bring in-house w...
I'm going to answer this from the perspective of an engineer who has worked in similar environments and who has had leadership changes that went well, as well as ones that didn't Basically you're describing an environment in which people aren't doing as much as they are capable of, they were wor...
Before litigating on one another, why don't you instruct your respective legal counsel not to sue, but rather to MEDIATE and come up with a FAIR solution for both parties based on: hard dollars invested, sweat equity and ideas. And before you even spend your after-tax dollars as an entrepreneur t...
I know this is a tricky problem to solve on optimizing costs and trying to get customers refer your service. Referral schemes work perfectly where incremental costs of adding additional service is marginal, like the case of DropBox. When the incremental costs are a significant portion and adding...