[neom]

I found the 20 people I needed to talk to.

I found out where they worked.

I called the public number.

I asked to talk to them.

I explained I was thinking about starting a startup and I needed some help thinking through some ideas.

2 of them told me they couldn't give me the time. 15 gave me a longer than 1 hour call at a later date, 3 of them let me fly out to them and spend a day with them.

Took me about 5/6 months.

[vosper]

How did it work out? Did you get useful information and start a successful business?

Of so is the business still doing what you thought it would be doing after you’d done those interviews?

[neom]

It failed because I fucked up a bunch of other unrelated stuff sadly, I was still in the throes of alcoholism and made a lot of poor choices(sober now). The product market fit was decent for getting going, we built the solution and people seemed to like using the product, we had contracts etc: https://municipal.systems/

[yr1337]

It sounds great and motivating, but what was your field? I feel doctors to be less than enthusiastic about engaging with people outside of their circle, especially if I ask for help about doing a startup. It's weird but I feel like a lot of them see you as a competitor somehow.