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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 want to learn by doing. Which startup…

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 want to create a web and mobile…

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 envelopes. The text would be submitted by…

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 (both YC funded) that I am extremely…

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. Furthermore, they are forced to have…

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 Bay Area after graduation. Here is what…

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 and negotiating, he called and…

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 really interesting visions? I read Tech…

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 wondering if there are small to medium…

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 stereotypical “biz guy” are the following:…

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'm facing is that many women handle…

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 more money into it. Any growth hackers…

This idea popped in my head during work today. I was hoping HN would a) tell me if this is viable and b) let me know if anyone is doing this right now. I'm a business student going into my senior year of my undergrad…

I am a non-technical entrepreneur who has a startup idea for employee scheduling software. My plan is to have the creation of the minimum viable product outsourced. I'm not attempting to find a programmer who will work…

I realize ideas are worth nothing without execution so I'd like to share my thoughts with the HN community in hopes of learning some insight. I'm at college and work a minimum wage job and the small business owner I…

I graduate college in one year with my bachelors in Business Administration. I've held multiple business and some political internships and I plan on moving to the bay area and getting a job at a start-up in business…

I got rejected by my college’s summer incubator program and I have a chip on my shoulder to succeed this summer. If I can prove a viable minimum product by mid-summer I’ll be allowed to join and I was hoping the…

I'm in NYC until Sunday on vacation. I graduate college in a year and want to work for a startup are there any entrepreneurial places I should visit here?

My college puts on a summer incubator program and in order to apply I need an idea with a valid business model. I thought about all the problems I encounter in order to think of a new product idea, and this is what I…

I'm a junior in college and my major is Business Administration. My life goal is to become a successful entrepreneur. I was initially going to go down the real estate investment route after college like some of my…

I’m attending Startup Weekend tomorrow and I’m sort of nervous. I’m a college student/ biz dev guy and I’m going by myself and I don’t really have a good pitch. I was wondering if you could critique this pitch: I came…

I'm going into my junior year at state school in New York. I'm a business student with a 3.0 gpa and with two years left I've decided to excel as best as I can in hopes of getting into an MBA program at an ivy league…

I'm going on vacation with my family before going back to school. I've never been to Boston but I've heard it's very entrepreneurial. I'm going to check out Harvard, what else should I look into?

Steven Blank describes in The Four Steps to the Epiphany that successful startups supply a "must-have" consumer product or solve a mission critical company problem. My problem has been with idea creation. I've been…

I started thinking about this after reading alot of frustrated posts on HN after the countless "I need a tech co-founder" posts. I don't consider myself a good programmer or hacker and I've had alot of questions myself…