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Recent college graduate, currently a marketing intern, but I want to try out sales before I decide which job to apply for by mid-summer. I don't have much sales experience but I wa…

I am taking part in a business plan competition at my college next week and I was wondering if HN could give me some feedback on my landing page: www.MailTheHouse.com Basically, I …

I'm pitching in my school's business plan competition next month and my startup idea includes a feature that would require automatic printing for standard (8.5 x 11") paper and env…

Question Based Selling is a great intro book on how good salespeople approach sales. It has good detail in it as well. Tested Advertising Methods is a must read for learning how pe…

I plan on moving to SV and working for a startup, then launching my own venture one day. I feel like this is an easier transition and I'll be able to accumulate some more experienc…

I'm a college senior, business development/marketing/sales background with a couple NY based startups and I'll be relocating to the Bay Area in May. I have two favorite startups (b…

Thank you for all the comments. I love checking in with the HN community before doing customer dev interviews. This has saved me alot of time.

This idea hit me in the barbershop the other day. My barber is quite busy and he has a sign-in sheet that no one uses. So the three barbers have to remember who came in before who.…

This is a good preliminary test, but more customer development needs to be done. You need to have problem and then solution interviews. Don't just show them your solution and ask "…

Motivation to workout. I'm not obese or anything, and I realize the importance of exercise but I still can't seem to find the time to do it more than once a week.

I am a college senior who has a somewhat extensive business development/sales background for my age. I am interested in building my resume even more as I plan on relocating to the …

Carwoo sounds interesting and it is similar to what I was thinking. But I think I might be imagining something more aggressive, where the startup sends an e-mail/fax/phone call to …

I was sitting in Finance class today and my professor was explaining how he decided on buying a new Mazda Miata. But instead of paying the asking price or going to our local dealer…

I'm moving to the Bay area next summer and I plan on becoming a business developer/salesman for a startup. I have two questions: 1.) How do you find growing startups that have real…

I'm a college student and have a good business development background for my age. I currently work at a minigolf place as my part-time college job which is driving me insane. I was…

A co-founder. I can really only offer equity not cash.

I’m a business founder of a startup looking for a tech co-founder and having some struggle with it. Without going into too much detail, the major differences between me and the ste…

I'm thinking about launching a gift buying service for men to help them pick out gifts for their wives and automatically sending it to them before significant dates. The problem I'…

None of these are targeting what I'm trying to do however

If you have a moment, please let me know what you think of my a) landing page design and b) overall value proposition. I'm looking to see if this idea validates before I invest mor…

Did you get my e-mail? If not, contact me: dj [at] darrensamson [dot] com

Keep in mind I am not a programmer so stick with me: For this idea I would obviously need a decent landing page and a few pages with information and then a call to action for payme…

I was thinking about possibly offering two packages. A basic package, let's just ballpark somewhere around $25-$50 where I would ship out strictly wholesale products each month, no…