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My 2 cents... I don't want to sign up to see how the system works, I'd rather be looking at other businesses with goals similar to mine, and if I want to get in

• apedley 16y ago
  That thought already crossed my mind and while the search results wouldn't be as accurate until you signed in and provided more details about the business (as you said the business would have to have goals/values similar to yours) it could be done. But then I come to the chicken and the egg problem. With no businesses to start with, it's not useful. And no businesses will sign up until it is useful. And unfortunately unlike Quora or other sites, I just can't fake that user data until I make it. Any suggestions? And thank you for your time in checking out my site. It's much appreciated.
• apedley 16y ago
  Just an idea. If made the search open to the public, but required a little bit of information at the start e.g. what industry you are in etc (some search parameters, but not identifiable information) then it turned up unimpressive results (as it would at the moment since there are not many businesses in there) Then say, do you want to be notified of any other businesses that are interested in a JV with you in the future. Would you signup to that? Or would you move along?
  • veb 16y ago
    You raise an excellent point. I normally do shove my email address into things to be notified of in the future, and the weirdest thing is I hardly ever get notified. I think this would work well (for people like me anyway...)
    • apedley 16y ago
      Excellent. I think I might give that approach a try. Some extra coding for me tonight, though it will be fairly easy to add to the existing site :)