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It sounds like your perspective needs tweaking. If you solve an important problem, then you should be on a mission to help people with that problem. The basic
by katzgrau 4y ago
It sounds like your perspective needs tweaking.
If you solve an important problem, then you should be on a mission to help people with that problem.
The basic steps are:
* Find people with the problem (email, call, ask for referrals)
* Ask for meetings to discuss the problem, if they have it
* Ask questions to understand the extent of their problem at a greater depth, and how it's impacting them negatively (there is no pitching, you just ask questions)
* Explain what you do and your solution for solving the problem, without going into details that might giveaway what you do. In lieu of how, demonstrate your understanding of the problem, empathize with the person with the problem, and explain what your process looks like for solving it at a high level (every step from the proposal and on)
* Ask if you can send a proposal for solving their problem. The proposal doesn't have to give away your process, although between this and the meeting they should be sufficiently convinced that you're a good candidate to solve the problem.
* Follow up until you get a firm answers
Solving someone's problem isn't about you or your pitch. It's about the other person and their problem and how you can help them.
Approaching from any other angle will be frustrating for you and the prospect because you'll be operating on assumptions, not information you've actually gathered.
- mattwilsonn888 4y agoThe issue with you assuming my question is flawed is that your advice does not generally apply. I understand how frustrating a post this may be. Though I'm sure having user stories reporting this problem and expressing interest in my solution would be valuable to the pitch. Its just not a solution that requires from scratch infrastructure (it would be a waste of time to rebuild what already exists to the required quality) and it is not a simple "code and go" business.
- calderarrow 4y ago> What are tips for getting in contact with the right people and enticing them? A: Demonstrating a (1) solution to a (2) problem that (3) users will pay for. Katzgrau's response outlines exactly how to solve those 3 requirements. This helps get fundraising from VCs and new customers. > And how does one go about the above without giving away enough information about the proposal to simply jot down, hire the relevant experts, and execute as if the idea is their own A: It is a waste of time to worry about this question. If your solution is so fragile that sharing the process of how it solves the problem makes it vulnerable to competitors, you're probably missing something. Why wouldn't the experts have already solved the problem? If you're smarter than the experts, then you don't need to worry about the "relevant experts", and u should be able to share your idea freely. If it really is a good solution, then as soon as you make your first sale people are going to copy you, so you need to have something to distinguish yourself besides being the first mover.
- junofan 4y agoAt the idea stage he just needs fomo. But it’s gonna be hard to generate fomo on an undisclosed soln without a track record…