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Connects early-stage B2B founders with verified CTOs and DevOps leaders for paid, 15-minute market validation interviews.
Added Nov 30, 2025
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B2B tech founders struggle to get feedback from senior technical decision-makers outside their network. Cold LinkedIn outreach yields sub-10% response rates, requires expensive premium subscriptions, and wastes weeks of pre-launch time that could be spent building. Validating with the right personas is critical for fundraising, but access is gated and inefficient.
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Background: I’m in my last month of employment and can’t actually start building anything until Jan 1. I have some VC interest and their advice before we can have real discussions in January is to sense check my idea with potential customers, specifically those that are not in my network. The product I’m working on is a technology platform that is primarily designed for CTO/ Head of Infrastructure/DevOps leads. I have a bunch of these people in my network that have given me the confidence I’m onto a good thing. The VCs want me to cold reach out to people outside of my network to get their opinion. Cold contacts via LinkedIn have had a horribly low success rate (~10%), just wondering if anyone else knows of good ways of getting in front of people in that senior IT roles for 15 minutes for some brutal feedback sessions?
Hi Everyone, I've done some of the more technical "market research" around my idea, which has ticked off all of my boxes, and now I'd like to actually have conversations with certain roles in medium sized businesses to understand them and assess to what extent they actually face the problem I'm attempting to solve (roughly using the 'Mom Test'). However, I have no idea how to actually get in contact with people that would have the perspective I need. I have so far made a list of 25 people on Linkedin, but Linkedin doesn't let you direct message them unless you pay $40/month to subscribe, and their emails aren't displayed on their profile. Anyone know the best way to approach this? All advice is appreciated.
Hi Everyone, I've done some of the more technical "market research" around my idea, which has ticked off all of my boxes, and now I'd like to actually have conversations with certain roles in medium sized businesses to understand them and assess to what extent they actually face the problem I'm attempting to solve (roughly using the 'Mom Test'). However, I have no idea how to actually get in contact with people that would have the perspective I need. I have so far made a list of 25 people on Linkedin, but Linkedin doesn't let you direct message them unless you pay $40/month to subscribe, and their emails aren't displayed on their profile. Anyone know the best way to approach this? All advice is appreciated.
Background: I’m in my last month of employment and can’t actually start building anything until Jan 1. I have some VC interest and their advice before we can have real discussions in January is to sense check my idea with potential customers, specifically those that are not in my network. The product I’m working on is a technology platform that is primarily designed for CTO/ Head of Infrastructure/DevOps leads. I have a bunch of these people in my network that have given me the confidence I’m onto a good thing. The VCs want me to cold reach out to people outside of my network to get their opinion. Cold contacts via LinkedIn have had a horribly low success rate (~10%), just wondering if anyone else knows of good ways of getting in front of people in that senior IT roles for 15 minutes for some brutal feedback sessions?
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