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This company’s original slogan was “twice as much fun for a nickel” in 1939.

What is Pepsi?

100

How can a startup company avoid being forgotten?

The startup company must keep up with modern day technology and online purchases and also must solve a modern day problem.

100

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you”...This quote is by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of this giant ecommerce shoe store.

What is Zappos?

100

 How big is the potential opportunity to succeed?

The cost of acquiring any customer is not cheap. The best opportunities come from product areas that encourage repeat purchases, either in the form of subscriptions, or in the form of (eventually) upselling and cross-selling complementary products to customers.

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Who was the entrepreneur to start Space x, the aerospace company that helped provide satellite internet to people in Ukraine?

Elon Musk

200

A famous character from the company Progressive was created by mistake over 10 years ago.

What is Flo?

200

What does it take to keep customers happy?

Have great customer service and, and tailor their products to the needs of their customers.

200

Reggie Brown, Bobby Murphy, and Evan Spiegel, while Stanford students in 2011, co-founded this popular messaging company that went public on the NYSE in March 2017. 

What is Snapchat?

200

Who are your target clients?

The best place to start is to analyze your current customer base. By examining your existing customers, you can gain the insight you need to develop a customer profile that can help you narrow the focus of your customers to any new market.

200

Who was the entrepreneur who started Twitter?

Jack Dorsey

300

Jake from State Farm become a thing to do what for the company?

What is increase sales opportunity?

300

What is the best way to maximize efficiency within your start-up?

Have proper technologies that can relay customer information.

300

As a college student, this billionaire entrepreneur didn’t care much for hanging out and partying, and was often found in his room playing video games—alone. But to pay his rent, he helped organize and run a nightclub out of his frat house.

Who is Elon Musk?

300

Who are my competitors in this market?

Unless you have a revolutionary product in your industry, there may be competitors in your target market who already offer similar products to your potential customers. Learn as much as you can about these competitors in order to assess your chances of success.

300

Who is the founder of Rivian the electric truck company that is a rival to Tesla?

Robert Scaringe

400

This website was inspired by pictures. This picture sharing website took founder Ben Silbermann 5 years of unemployment and hard work to get off its feet, and is now the 35th most visited website in the world.

What is Pinterest?

400

When should you take a risk versus not take a risk?

The entrepreneur must weigh the pros and cons of all the possible outcomes. The entrepreneur must take into account all of the variables at hand and use proper judgment and his experience to make the optimal decision.

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This major technological advance was touted as a “passing fad that millions are giving up on” by the Daily Mail in its December 5, 2000 publication. 

What is the internet?

400

 How big is the market?

To properly assess the revenue potential of your chosen market, you also need to determine how many ideal customers exist. There must be a large enough network of potential customers for you to target to make your product viable. Adequate market research is required.

400

Who started the online investment brokerage site Robbin Hood?

Tenev and Baiju Bhatt

500

This company started with 2 men renting out 3 mattresses in their own home to employees of a million dollar company. What was their first global campaign?

What is AirBnB “Never a Stranger”?

500

How can you reduce start-up expenses but still gain publicity?

By using inexpensive marketing strategies. Social media is a powerful tool for advertising and is completely free to use.

500

Many billion-dollar companies, of various industries, were once start-ups that started at the very bottom. As start-ups, Harley-Davidson, Disney, Dell, Google, Apple, and Microsoft all got started in this particular room of a house that usually has an overhead door. 

What is a garage?

500

what potential customers in this market are currently using?

You need to know more about the type of software your target market is currently using. What does their software stack consist of? What is it missing? Research the needs of these clients and find out how the programs they use meet their needs. You can evaluate this information against your own product features.

500

Who was the founder of the ride sharing service Uber?

Travis Kalanick