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<body><div>Hi Asfand,<br><br>My advice would be to approach some consultants, and see if they're already paying for such a service, and if they'd be willing to pay for your proposition. Perhaps they'll even give you a future order, then you really know you've got something.<br><br>Customer Development is something I've yet to master, or even do OK at. It always seems to be the elephant in the room at every ideas stage / pre-market fit startup I've dealt with. The Mum Test is a great read on it. Rob, the author, also has a great set of resources at: <a href="http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/series-and-topics/">http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/series-and-topics/</a><br><br>Hth,<br><br>Ian<br></div>
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<div>From: "Conor O'Dwyer" <<a href="mailto:conorjohn.odwyer@gmail.com">conorjohn.odwyer@gmail.com</a>><br></div>
<div>To: London Ruby Users Group <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>><br></div>
<div>Subject: Re: [LRUG] Running a business, and outsourcing non-coding tasks to others<br></div>
<div>Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 03:49:28 +0100<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Asfand,<br></div>
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<div>Its a good idea but its been done by WebMD, BabylonHealth........and many others.<br></div>
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<div>Conor<br></div>
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<div><div>On 27 May 2015 at 03:31, Asfand Yar Qazi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayqazi@gmail.com">ayqazi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;margin-left-ltr-source:physical;margin-left-rtl-source:physical;margin-right-ltr-source:physical;margin-right-rtl-source:physical;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-width-ltr-source:physical;border-left-width-rtl-source:physical;border-left-style-ltr-source:physical;border-left-style-rtl-source:physical;border-left-color-ltr-source:physical;border-left-color-rtl-source:physical;padding-left:1ex;padding-left-ltr-source:physical;padding-left-rtl-source:physical;"><p dir="ltr">Hi,<br></p><p dir="ltr">Sorry for the lateness of my reply.<br></p><p dir="ltr">The idea is a site/app combo for consultants in a well-being industry sector to help them communicate with their patients more effectively.<br></p><p dir="ltr">So I guess the answer is probably still a no? <br>
Thanks</p><p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Asfand Yar Qazi</p><div><div>On 25 May 2015 15:45, "Najaf Ali" <<a href="mailto:ali@happybearsoftware.com">ali@happybearsoftware.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;margin-left-ltr-source:physical;margin-left-rtl-source:physical;margin-right-ltr-source:physical;margin-right-rtl-source:physical;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-width-ltr-source:physical;border-left-width-rtl-source:physical;border-left-style-ltr-source:physical;border-left-style-rtl-source:physical;border-left-color-ltr-source:physical;border-left-color-rtl-source:physical;padding-left:1ex;padding-left-ltr-source:physical;padding-left-rtl-source:physical;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Asfand,<br></div>
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<div>Can you give us a bit more information about your business? If all you want to do is drop ship Hello Kitty iPhone cases then the answer is effectively yes. If you want to disrupt the way enterprise IT departments work with software development vendors then the answer is probably no.<br></div>
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<div>-Ali<br></div>
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<div><div>On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Asfand Yar Qazi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayqazi@gmail.com">ayqazi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;margin-left-ltr-source:physical;margin-left-rtl-source:physical;margin-right-ltr-source:physical;margin-right-rtl-source:physical;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-width-ltr-source:physical;border-left-width-rtl-source:physical;border-left-style-ltr-source:physical;border-left-style-rtl-source:physical;border-left-color-ltr-source:physical;border-left-color-rtl-source:physical;padding-left:1ex;padding-left-ltr-source:physical;padding-left-rtl-source:physical;">Hi,<br> <br>
I was wondering if any the people here running their own businesses<br>
have outsourced some business activities to other companies? I've been<br>
considering getting others to do things like:<br> <br>
* Market research - is my idea actually going to be used? Will it<br>
actually generate income?<br> <br>
* Sales, marketing and promotion - telling people about the business<br> <br>
* Customer service - dealing with annoying customers<br> <br>
Is it feasible to do this? Thanks!<br> <br>
Regards,<br>
Asfand Yar Qazi<br>
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