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by swift107
5052 days ago
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i wanted to use that along with which tech companies you know as a way to define people that are "tech savvy". So my crude method was to take top compsci/eng schools and use a gradient of different technology startups. make sense? happy to take suggestions. |
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It sounds to me like you are selecting for people with upper-class backgrounds that spend too much time on techcrunch; e.g. you want a elite school plus apple products and obscure startups. (I am a little amused that you put EMC and FusionIO on the same list as Etsy. Perhaps you are trying to separate the corp IT out?)
I mean, most of the people that pass your test that I know? They are businesspeople. Some of them, sure, I'd call technically savvy. but not most of them.
Really, if you are doing a means test, put an income range or net worth range or something in there.
I mean, first you have to decide what opinions you care about; Me? If I was asking people's opinions of various VC firms? I'd care most about the opinions of people that have actually done a funded startup. I would define funded in terms of dollars of someone else's money; say something like "have you been a founder (owned more than 10%) of a startup that obtained at least ten thousand dollars of investment money, not counting money you yourself put in?" something like that. (I think owning more than 10% is a more useful definition of founder than "there at inception" for this sort of thing, but I could be wrong.)
Of course, you could be trying to get a broader sampling of what people think of various VC companies in general, in which case, you can broaden your customer base.
But asking if you own an apple phone sounds a little bit to me like asking if your bicycle has a flywheel.
On the other hand, thinking it through, if you really are trying to get a broad "what do people that read techcrunch think of various VC firms?" kind of thing going, then your list of obscure startups is a good idea.