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by cosmodisk 1502 days ago
This is amazing advise. People working in tech, especially in high tech orgs live in bubbles and often imagine that the whole world is like this. I know a multimillion £ business that probably gained hundreds of thousands in productivity by simply introducing shared mailbox. Some of those low hanging fruits are litterly on the ground ready to be picked up.
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> I know a multimillion £ business that probably gained hundreds of thousands in productivity by simply introducing shared mailbox.

Good if someone can pull it off. But, I believe that company might have sold that feature as an add-on to their existing customers. Otherwise, you know “Sales” are the hard part

I think the advice here is not so much to sell a solution to these businesses, but to start a business in that sector and run it more efficiently---thanks to tech magic---than the competition.
> but to start a business in that sector

That's what I also meant. Even if you start a business, the features that your product would have, will be sold as a "solution" - in layman's terms.

> Some of those low hanging fruits are litterly on the ground ready to be picked up.

Why we are talking about low-hanging fruit instead of picking them up? I have a hunch they aren't low hanging after all.