{"id":176,"date":"2015-08-23T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T14:18:09","slug":"figuring-out-a-business-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Figuring out a business opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you figure out a business opportunity with Software for Domain Experts?<\/p>\n<p>This is too hard a question to answer, but let&#8217;s try to dance around it.<\/p>\n<p>We can start with an observation that just about everybody who runs something could benefit from better information, displayed in a more manageable way.<\/p>\n<p>That probably doesn&#8217;t mean gathering more information (although it might) but it does mean a better way to work with it.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t describing any specific business opportunity. To sell software you need to find someone who wants to buy software or can be persuaded of this.<\/p>\n<p>That might mean someone who has software but they really hate it, they&#8217;ve got money to spend on software, you can convince them you have something to offer, their company doesn&#8217;t have an IT department with preconceived ideas about what is needed, or something they want to build themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile there are so many software companies in the &#8216;company modelling&#8217; or &#8216;business process management&#8217; or &#8216;analytics&#8217; or &#8216;decision making&#8217; space, and it is virtually impossible to figure out what any of them do from looking at their websites, let alone understand what they do.<\/p>\n<p>Difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you figure out a business opportunity with Software for Domain Experts? This is too hard a question to answer, but let&#8217;s try to dance around it. We can start with an observation that just about everybody who runs something could benefit from better information, displayed in a more manageable way. That probably doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}