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I am contemplating the idea of selling my own homemade beef jerky on the Internet, but I have reservations about food safety regulations that prohibit me from doing so. It is a very open ended question: What are the key things I need to look for in this start up?
The reasons I have for this [...]

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I have a small online quilt shop, offering patterns and fabrics. I started without a loan, so my inventory is very limited. Many quilt shops were established for years, then went to the Internet. I know that I am unable to compete with shops that have 4,000+ bolts of fabric, unless I [...]

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I am looking for financial statements of sites that do not sell a product, but offer a free service. Companies like MySimon.com (comparison shopper), Blink.com (bookmark service) etc. I was not able to find out if free Internet services are successful (make any revenue).
Most of these services (mainly) make a profit via banners. This is [...]

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We are a Web portal Internet search engine launching soon. We are interested in a business plan for our Internet company. Can you help?
Thank you.
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Yes, we are aware of how important the Internet opportunities are becoming, and of course the Internet is very important to our company, Palo Alto Software. That’s one good [...]

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Are there any rules and regulations to follow when it comes to selling domain names?
Are you free to price them as you want?
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About the only regulations you would have to be concerned with would be whether or not the domain names you have reserved and want to sell conflict with any trademarks. If the domain [...]

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I am in the process of writing a business plan and I need to find a management team with experience in Internet start-ups. I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction? Where would I begin to search for my management team?
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An interesting article on the subject is found at this site
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How do I market my soap to areas other than local at least cost?
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The costs of marketing a product for a small business or even a large business can be daunting. Those costs increase exponentially when you start talking about entering a new
market or broadening the scope of your distribution system. Many businesses spend as [...]

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We are developing a business plan (using Business Plan Pro) for an Internet-based market research start-up.
How does one determine the current valuation in order to determine what percentage of the company the seed investor is entitled to?
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Valuation of a start-up business is extremely difficult. This is a case of beauty being in the eyes of [...]

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I have this idea for an Internet company that will act as a network for a certain kind of business. The company will act as a hub for Internet sales. How do I go about getting the attention of the owners of this business for an alliance?
I am looking for a good way to approach [...]

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We are in the process of creating a start-up company (various information about all sports of the world).
Right now we are in the final phase of completing the business plan. The company which is helping us develop the business plan tells us that the only way to get money is that whenever a user validates [...]