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Re:Ask HN: How to ask companies about problems they are facing? by prats226 on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:52AM (#12726153)
Well we are thinking of some specific problems related to data science. Developers, Product managers, marketing folks would benefit immensely from this and naturally all of them could give feedback from their own perspectives. Decision makers might be VP, Founders. Currently I am writing to founders of startups.

This email looks great. Will try it out and tweak based on who I am getting feedback from. Thanks !!

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Re:Ask HN: How to ask companies about problems they are facing? by tyre on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:12PM (#12726377)
Don't sell to someone who doesn't feel the pain. If the developers feel the pain but a VP has to be on board, get the developer to be a fanatical user of yours then advocate on your behalf. They'll have more sway than you.

See: Github, Slack

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Re:Ask HN: How to ask companies about problems they are facing? by prats226 on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:57PM (#12726812)
Well little hard in my case since service I am offering, developer himself cant approve to use it (as it involves company data). Agree about enterprise-consumer approach for products like github, slack. We might think of some variation of this approach after we validate problem. Thanks!
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