Ask HN: Which market testing tools have you found useful?

Re:Ask HN: Which market testing tools have you found useful? by eytanlevit on Thursday November 15, 2012 @07:17AM (#4788198)

1. Talking with your potential users looking for problems - warning: it's gonna be hard but with a very high ROI. 2. I've recently used Google Consumer Survey - you can get a $150 coupon by sending an email request to: [email protected] 3. I'm now working on a survey to send to people I know that will be willing to fill in many questions.

In general your time should be spent: 50% problem team - finding more facts about the problem you are solving. 50% solution team - building a very minimal product(aka mvp) based on current data problem team has discovered.

This kind of work should get you into a feedback loop where you not only research but also test - these two together should make you move faster and wiser.

feel free to ask more.

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Re:Ask HN: Which market testing tools have you found useful? by smartial_arts on Thursday November 15, 2012 @09:01AM (#4788539)

Where would you suggest one might look for people/businesses with problems? Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Which market testing tools have you found useful? by smartwater on Saturday November 17, 2012 @03:29AM (#4797622)

Here's a million: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip

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Re:Ask HN: Which market testing tools have you found useful? by smartial_arts on Saturday November 17, 2012 @07:47PM (#4799466)

Just to clarify - are you suggesting that small businesses can take on problems that some of those large businesses are having?

Wouldn't that require a lot of insider information as well as connections within those companies?

I guess my question was a lot less daring - how would one approach task of finding problems/needs within reasonable reach of his own social or geographical vicinity, such as identifying a small-to-medium businesses niche and approaching those, based on the assumption that it's easier to approach this kind of businesses.

Thanks!

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