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Re:Ask HN: Best way to conduct market research? on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @11:05AM (#3919413)
There has to be a better way than surveys right? I feel like nobody wants to answer those and it'd be incredibly difficult to target my specific customer.

Any other suggestions? I need to find potential customers before launching...

Ask HN: Best way to conduct market research?

So I have an idea I'm trying to get feedback on from potential customers as to whether they would find it valuable. I've been calling various business event hosting companies and have pretty much got nothing but voicemail boxes. Is there a better strategy than this? What else could I be doing?And to follow up, how can I better answer the question "who are my customers?"

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linh,

Do you have an email I could contact you at? I'd love to 1. give you a better idea by attaching a bplan and 2. get more advice because clearly you've been through this.

Justin

I don't think it's wordpress compatible... it's basically a site that matches guests at business events/receptions so they know who may have common interests, etc. Companies could then access this data and use it for an all around event hosting tool
The website is the core of my business.

Ask HN: The build vs buy debate... should we hire a programmer?

Hi all, I'm currently writing up a business plan and getting feedback from various contacts I've made that are entrepreneurs or VC's... the only issue is I'm not an experienced programmer. I've been trying to teach myself (via code academy and google python), but feel as if it will take me way too long to get to the level of building a site for this company. (I'm still learning to code...

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