First of all, thank you very much for stopping by to check out Startups.com! We know business bloggers and journalist are very busy, and are doing research all the time. We know it’s a time consuming endeavor, that’s why we believe you’re going love the service Startups.com is offering. Check it out:
What’s Startups.com?
Simply stated: Startups.com is a Q&A site for people to ask business question. It’s actually much more than that. It’s a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, small business owners, seasoned businesspeople and also home-based entrepreneur-wannabes. We’re all striving to offer the best answer to all of the business questions most people around the world might have. Watch our video to get a better feel what’s Startups.com is all about.
Some interesting facts
We decided to put Startups.com to a good use as a Q&A community site when we came across some really powerful stats.
- Did you know that in the US alone there are 30M businesses? And that out of those 30M businesses 52% are home-based? 75% of the small businesses in the US have no employees. We thought you might want to know these are facts we got from the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, September 2009.
- On top of that, every year over 600,000 new companies are created. We’ve started several businesses, so we know how lost you feel when you’re trying to start out, to do things on your own, to quit your 9-to-5 job. And the most pressing need we thought was: gee, there are millions of people out there in the business field, around the world. WHO DO THEY TURN FOR HELP WHEN THEY NEED IT? Starting a business is never easy, always rocky and full of obstacles.
Note: In case you you missed the post in Techcrunch, we bought the domain Startups.com more than 1 year ago. Here’s the link.
How to post your questions on Startups.com?
Exactly with bloggers like you in mind is that we came up with a simple, but very powerful, system to post questions to Startups.com
3 easy ways to submit your questions to Startups.com:
- Web: http://ask.startups.com will bring you our Ask Question page (http://askstartups.com also works)
- Twitter: send your tweet to @askstartups followed by your question. We’ll reply with a url for you to complete formulating your question. It’s important that you start with @askstartups, it doesn’t work if you just include it in the middle or end of your tweet
- Email: Send your mail to ask [at] startups.com and in the Subject write the title of your question, and in the body write the description. We’ll post it for you and you’ll get a reply with the url of your question to check upon the answers.
Next time you get stuck working on a post or article remember we like to say “Got a Business Questions? Ask Startups”, so no matter if you prefer to submit your question by email, to fire up your browser or to tweet it, “ask startups” is your lucky savior. No matter how you get the question into Statups.com, just remember “ask startups” and then pick your favorite way.
Can I “politely” mention my blog several times in every answer I write?
Not really. The question is a place for you to help people find the right answer for their business question. We believe it’s valuable for you to answer, even though you don’t mention blantly your blog in your answer, because this is a credibility builiding thing. If someone is interested in what you got to say, will surely check out your profile. Your profile is exactly the right place for you to brag about your blog, your achievements, what you do, how can you help them for a fee, etc. But don’t use your answer to push your blog in order to bring traffic your way, the community will just kick you out. Add value first, and then you’ll surely reap the rewards handsomely.
You own your content
You retain the rights to what you write on Startups.com. Remember you’re participating here under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
What can Startups.com do for you?
We know business is a very broad subject, but we believe we’re up to the challenge. We want to cover it all. So if you have a blog, or a website you write for, or even you write for a print publication, we believe Startups.com might become a very valuable resource in your day to day.
Why? Because you can do extensive research online (I guess mostly through Google) but how about letting Startups.com Community help you finding the answer to questions you came across during your research?
Give Statups.com a try. Ask a question and see for yourself what happens. We’re aiming at giving you the best answer, within minutes. Well, maybe not minutes, but as fast as the community can react to your question. Startups.com Community is composed of seasoned business people, successful entrepreneurs, journalists and bloggers like yourself covering the business space. We love what we do, as much as you do your writing.
P.S. You can follow on Twitter the questions posted on Startups.com, depending on the tag you’re interested in. Maybe you want to mention relevant blog posts you’ve penned and share it with the world. Maybe you want to answer the question head on. Maybe you’re interested in the answer. Click here to see what we’ve planned for bloggers that want to get the most out of twitter and Startups.com