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by fpalmans 2652 days ago
In my experience, the 'Request Demo/Quote' or 'Contact Sales' is a bit more nuanced than just price differentiation. Especially when the product is offered by a young and/or small to mid-sized business.

First of all, building a company which can effectively sell to (and support) businesses as well as end customers is far from easy. Unless a company has a proven track record, I'd meet such claims with much skepticism.

Enterprise customer's expectations/requirements from a support, integration, availability, etc. perspective are completely different than those from an end-user. When going through those requirements, it comes down to finding the price at which those requirements can or are willing to be met. For example, an enterprise customer is likely to add clauses into the contract which deal with ownership changes, bankruptcy, option to transfer to a perpetual license (possibly with source code) in case of end-of-support, availability of consultancy services for integration to future tools, etc.