Questions tagged [business]
The Business category includes proposals in subjects like management, economics, and markets.
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Enlarge the scope to "cryptocurrency", not just Bitcoin.
Proposal: Bitcoin
Clearly, Bitcoin is the de facto leader in cryptocurrencies, but this technology is in its infancy, and its not clear that Bitcoin (as we know it today) will not be surpassed by ...
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Why should any of us contribute when Stack Exchange will throw away our work without consulting us?
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Is Bitcoin big enough for a Stack Exchange site?
Proposal: Bitcoin
Here are the guidelines for an Area 51 beta:
15 questions per day on average is a
healthy beta, 5 questions or fewer per
day is worrying. A healthy site
generates lots of ...
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Widen scope of "Startup Business" to "Small Business"?
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How to promote the Bitcoin & Crypto-currency proposal to high-reputation users?
Proposal: Bitcoin & Crypto-currency
The Bitcoin & Crypto-currency proposal has been gaining commitments rapidly recently due to promotion on the Bitcoin forums. However, the overwhelming ...
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All healthcare related area 51 proposals. Differences? Similarities? Can they co-exist? How can members of all proposals benefit?
Proposal: Healthcare Industry
Proposal: Bioinformatics
Proposal: Biomedical Informatics
Proposal: Biomedical engineering
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
Proposal: Public Health & Epidemiology
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Why is this one called "Startup Business"?
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What does Freelance Workers address that can't be handled by OnStartups?
Should Freelance Workers merge into OnStartups? What does Freelance Workers handle that cannot be asked there?
Proposal: Freelance Workers
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How is Startup Business going to be different from the close Startups proposal?
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Won't there be a lot of localization that makes a huge difference?
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Proposal to increase the scope from 'Startup Business' to 'Business' or some other larger scope
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Social Networking proposals
Proposal: Building Social Networks
Does a proposal for a Social Network-related SE site make sense?
Reasons for my doubts:
It's been tried three times before (Social Networking, Social Media ...
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Since Project Management is now 100% committed, how long will it take to receive the invite?
Today I saw Project Management move from 99% committed to 100% committed. How long will it take for me to receive the invite for the beta phase?
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Opinions about merging Business Intelligence proposal with the DBA site
I've had a conversation with one or two of the folks at the DBA site about merging Business Intelligence into that site. I've just put a question up on the DBA meta site as well, link here.
The ...
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Would anyone be interested in an "internet pornography" site proposal?
Since pornography has been, and still is, the most profitable business on the internet;
would anyone be interested in discussing it here?
Analysis would involve:
Statistics
Categorization
Social ...
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Real number of proposals not rendering
On the menu bar, the Business category has 2 proposals, but in the list it only has one.
Is this a bug or is one proposal deleted?
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Are Project Management and IT Management merge-worthy? [closed]
Seems like these two proposals have significant overlap, but I don't have a strong feeling on what to do with it.
How does the community feel?
Proposal: Project Management
Proposal: IT Management
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Business or Technology
Proposal: Bitcoin & Crypto-currency
Anyone going to get upset if I question whether bitcoin belongs in the Business category or if it belongs in Technology more? It's certainly applicable to both ...
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Why are proposals for a site on startup businesses being closed on sight these days?
Recently, I've seen proposals for sites on startup businesses get closed on sight, with no regard to fulfilling the minimum requirements, with a note that there have already been two failed sites ...
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Novice-user vs. superuser
I do not understand why there is not a need for a site where one can ask questions, which would offend the experts at superuser.com, for their simplicity. Specifically the description of Super User is:...
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A Q&A about strategy
I am deeply interested in strategy, primarily business strategy, but also other sorts of strategies. I guess that I need to be quite focused in the proposal to get it going so I first tried a proposal ...
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Are (professional) non-technical business proposal doomed from the start?
I started the Marketing proposal last year and it was shut down a few months ago because it didn’t get 10 votes on 40 questions within a year (got 26 I think). I believe the problem with starting ...
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Petition answers.onstartups.com out of beta
answers.onstartups.com has been in beta now for 458 days. Is it typical to sit in beta for so long?
I've reviewed the report card and see that its low on posts per day, but it seems to be doing well ...
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Not a Duplicate of Project Management [closed]
Proposal: Kanban
This is not a duplicate of Project Management, though it overlaps in areas of process, human resource management, risk management, and value/portfolio management. The concepts of ...
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How would this be a useful site?
Proposal: Make In India
I cannot see a reason for this to be a useful site.
What would I ask here?
What is off and on topic?
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Lukewarm response for 'Business Intelligence'. Somebody else suggested an 'Enterprise IT' SE site. Should this proposal be merged into a broader site?
I originally proposed 'Business intelligence' because it tends to fall into some of the cracks between SO, SF and SU. Getting obscure business intelligence questions answered on Stackoverflow seems ...
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Which site for practical business Q&A?
I am looking for a site which would cover a wide range of practical questions and answers about doing business. I am thinking of topics such as:
design, marketing, pricing, sales
manufacturing, ...
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How many votes does it take for a question to be marked as off-topic?
In this proposal, all off-topic questions have at least 21 votes, so I wonder how many more votes it would take to get this proposal into the next phase.
Proposal: Business Intelligence
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Change Kanban to Lean [closed]
Proposal: Kanban
Suggest broadening this (currently very narrow) proposal to Lean or even Process Improvement to broaden the potential audience and hence increase the chance of success of this site.
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Is there a site for international commerce?
I intend to propose a site for International Commerce, specifically for
Any question about legal, financial, regulatory, and political implications of international commerce, activity and ...
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Make Kanban proposal's title shorter & broaden description [closed]
Proposal: Kanban
I agree about keeping focus on Kanban. If we were to narrow it even further, a suggested title modification could be: "Kanban in software development". If we have Kanban in general,...
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How is this different from Freelancing?
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The scope of "Kanban" [closed]
Proposal: Kanban
The description mentions David Andreson, who applied Kanban method to software engineering. If this proposal is only about software development process management, then it is a ...
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Who is the target audience?
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"Sales" is too broad a scope
Proposal: Sales
What would this site's purpose be? Its current description is basically "Oh, it covers sales", but in what sense? This is quite a broad topic, so without more targetted specifics, ...
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Business Intelligence proposal - Are these sockpuppet accounts?
I've just seen a raft of commitments to the business intelligence proposal from accounts all created about a day ago. Many of them look a bit dodgy. Any way to see if they might be sock puppet ...
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What Qualifies as a Good(or Bad) Maker Question?
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Should "Immigration" be renamed "US Immigration"?
Proposal: Immigration
The tag line talks about "or all immigration related issues. H1b, EAD, Green Card, Citizenship, etc." Which is really very US centric. This community will attract all sorts of ...
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Are "reminder questions" to participate in a proposal okay?
I saw some "questions/discussions" in proposals which say something like:
Use your votes!
Post example questions!
Examples:
Marketing reminder: Use your votes!
Use your votes!
Have you added five ...
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Is there no stackexchange for real estate questions (buying/selling a house)?
Is there no stackexchange site to help people in buying/selling a house? how to start such a site?
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'How to Hire', where providers inform seekers of best practices.
I recently proposed How To Hire to Area51. I would love some feed back. The idea of professionals informing service seekers seemed valuable and inspired the proposal. Just wanted to see if others felt ...
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Photography Business vs Photography
Proposal: Photography Business
Prior to voting to close, please note that Photography Business is not meant to be nor is it the same as the current Photography site. The photography site is about the ...
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International and National Standards
I'm interesting is discussing and asking questions relating to various international and national standards. Is there currently, or is there any plan to create, a Stack Exchange site for standards?
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How to ask a site proposer to correct / improve their English?
A site (*) has been proposed which, I think, deserves an opportunity to exist for many reasons. However, the English used in the proposal and some of the initial mock questions (by the proposer) is a ...
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On Taxes being solely considered part of Personal Finance
I see that Taxes was closed because it was considered to be part of Personal Finance. However, there's the business side of taxes, and there's no area at all on StackExchange to discuss this.
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Which stackexchange is a question about a web-app to store company information be appropriate for?
Which StackExchange would be appropriate for asking about a recommendation for a small-company-wide system for storing, passwords, contacts, urls, and shared calendars (that might be accessed by a ...
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What types of startups will qualifiy for discussion?
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I just started a staging - Have a caustic follower - Where can I find moderation controls?
I don't want this one particular 'follower' to discourage people from contributing simply because he seems to have a negative agenda - But he will, and I can't figure out how to block him. Please ...
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Duplicate of Startups?
I think this is a duplicate of the already existing Startups Stack Exchange, it's not? It might can be considered a merge between Startups Stack Exchange and The Workplace Stack Exchange, though
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