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Looking for interesting techniques, tips, experiences, etc. on different approaches to FB ads. Do they work? How successful were they? What level of creativity was involved in any …

Looking for good ways to find outsourced iphone development for our startup to build off an API that we have built for our HTML5 mobile web app. How much would that cost??

pretty cool application. Working on a startup that uses location as well, it is nice to see the simplicity being applied to something like this. It has potential, keep up the good …

I totally agree with everything here. We are in the processing of getting our MVP out by the end of the month. This also might help clarify some things--the feedback was from a gro…

Do you have any examples of startup pivots?

When is a pivot necessary? Before the MVP because of feedback on a demo? To help formulate an easier customer acquisition and sales strategy?

I see a lot of great business owners thanking patrons for visiting or tweeting about them on Twitter. Here is an example from a local business (Bocktown Beer & Grill) in Pittsburgh…

I should have clarified it better, my apologies. But yes, OpenTable is a very good example. Restaurants pay to use the software, but do receive any value from using OpenTable unles…

I am wondering how startups in the past have marketed "in store" apps/software. By "in store" I mean, startups that are creating products that are used/bought by businesses, but al…

Love the design of both Freckle and Charde.sk. Thanks for the help. As a young and first time entrepreneur, I like to think I know the answers, but most of the time it is not the c…

Ahoyhere, I have learned more about pricing stuff from you than I hoped! Thanks for the valuable insight. I have one more question that does not apply to you and Freckle directly n…

ahoyhere, thanks for the insight. I am working on pricing for our startup right now. We serve different markets, but I found your pricing structure interesting, that is why I used …

I agree with everything you say. It is the usual best practices with this type of pricing model. Let's just compare these two services and the somewhat different take they have bet…

When you are making up a freemium business model pricing plan, what is a good way to come up with the difference in prices between each tier? It obviously has to include features t…

Looking for a discussion around some different successful or unsuccessful customer acquisition tactics (anything from viral to complete busts) that startups have implemented after …

Anyone have any recommendations for sites or software that our small startup could use to control internal finances/accounting that would compare to quickbooks?

With foursquare closing its round of funding, I was wondering what the HN community thought that foursquare could do to innovate and cross the chasm into a more widespread adoption…

Now that foursquare received such a nice round of funding, what is the HN community thinking as far as cool things that foursquare could do in the space? Geo-location is turning in…