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Crowdsourcing Your Product Name

Software By Rob

Product naming is hard. Too many factors come into play when looking for a name and it’s almost impossible to decide on the right name once you’ve stared at the same list for a week straight. The Approach A while back Patrick contacted a handful of Academy members and asked for opinions on potential product names.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. One common mistake is to equate “IP” with “code” or other technical contributions.

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Hear me on the Startup Success Podcast

Software By Rob

October 28th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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RSS Troubles (FeedBurner)

Software By Rob

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Thanks Phil Hollows Founder Feedblitz Leave a Comment Building Your Startup? 2 Aiesha on 11.03.09

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Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality

Software By Rob

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 11 Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob on 08.18.10 at 6:32 am [.]

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. Here’s an example of a great sell sheet for a product called Well Well Wow! He calls this “the secret of the market.”.