Im looking for the best technical guidelines to start an online store for high tech physical goods that can scale-up quickly: payement options, shoping carts to be used, hosting solution, design tool..etc

I don’t know of any places for those, but I’m sure a place like Etsy or StoreEnvy would be able to guide you through the basics to the point where you could test your thesis.

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Anyone can give me advice on how to start an online retail business? Thinking about providing payment via credit cards leaves me floundering.

Answered by Corey Kossack – Partner, Game Change Ventures Posted in Product Development

You can use PayPal and Google Checkout to easily accept online payments. Don't worry about setting a merchant account up yet. There are plenty of places to use to market yo... (more)

I have only owned service companies and am looking to start an online company for the first time. What are the first five things I should be doing?

Answered by Micah Baldwin – Founder, Graphic.ly

1) find an interesting problem 2) find people that want to pay for it 3) repeat #2 Running a services business is about service; whereas an internet company is about the m... (more)

I am 17, and looking to start an online social network for Australian musicians. This will be much like facebook and twitter, but specific to musicians with features to sui...

Answered by Dan Martell – Founder & Investor.

You could learn the skills required. Programming isn't that hard, and if you devoted 2 months to learning you would know enough to build a prototype and launch it. From a... (more)

I am stuck on finding a product to sell online to start my online business. Can you please give me some criteria or way to figure out if its a good product to sell online?

Answered by Mark Ruddock – Founder, INEA Posted in Sales

Tough question to answer in a few words ... any business you create has to solve some compelling need ... e.g. something someone wants badly enough to be willing to pay for... (more)

I am trying to start an online business, specifically selling a specific type of product online, I was wondering what are some of the best books I could read that could hel...

Answered by Corey Kossack – Partner, Game Change Ventures

At the risk of tooting my own horn, I wrote a book called "eBay Millionaire or Bust" a few years back that covers a big chunk of my knowledge on the subject. Otherwise, go ... (more)

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