Stop attending events and start making stuff. You'll quickly find out if there's any demand and if you care about it enough to do it for 10+ years.
Happy to offer a call to discuss specific questions you have. It seems you have several regarding product, solutions and funding?
It is always a good idea, but what you have to verify is that a product with a lower price will give the perception that it has a lower quality. If you want more advice, I am at your service.
Checked your website; very very cool. I used to have an advertising agency, responsible for sales & client strategy. I'll cannibalize an answer I gave on Quora for this one: About getting clients, do: - charity work - hackathons and Startupweekends and such - design competitions - direct work...
The entire point of an expert network is to have the best and brightest answer industry specific, or even company specific related issues. A standardized platform with canned answers may be useful for cursory topics. However, the customers who pay for experts from the expert network community wan...
There are a few ways you can go about doing this. The first way is to get your business into trade shows and do some old school marketing. More exposure for your company only increases your chances of getting in with a big company. Ideally there will be a buyer for home depot. In case you did not...
Most people are lazy. They won't do anything other than daydream about becoming your competition. Next point: if the barrier to entry to your marketplace is low, then it's all about selling. Rather than focusing on features or what you do ("We make websites"; who cares?), start talking about ser...
Have to listen carefully in every transaction that you make in your business even if it's small don't make any loss anything that is a big profit even if it's $1 it's a profit so be careful on your prices make a calculation every time you deliver your service make sure you make a profit everyone ...
BuiltWith is awesome, but not for this. It only shows you what sites are built with the tech, and often Magento / Drupal developers have websites for themselves that are on simpler platforms (for example, a Magento developer isn't selling products so they don't need an ecommerce platform like Ma...
LinkedIn is the world's best recruiting source. The advanced search fields allow you so much criteria to build a hit list of potential candidates. Making direct outreach will likely result in a 20-30% response rate. I'd look for someone who is less entrepreneurially inclined by targeting peopl...