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| DATE | 2002-09-24 |
| FROM | From: "Phil Glaser"
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] Consulting Business Initiative
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Kevin,
This is a wonderful resource, but are you allowed to use it without paying
for it? For you own protection, if you use the data, make sure you are not
breaking any rules.
--Phil
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com [mailto:owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com]On
>Behalf Of Kevin Milani
>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:29 AM
>To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
>Subject: [hangout] Consulting Business Initiative
>
>
>
>I just realized today that I have access to a valuable asset that
>could help
>us out on the marketing side. I work on the direct mail database for a
>large professional services organization and thus have access to addresses,
>telephone number and e-mail addresses of several hundred thousand
>executives
>around the world.
>
>I can pull together lists by industry, location, company size and
>many other
>parameters. It is also possible to retrieve Executive information by job
>function, such as only searching for CTOs and CEOs.
>
>A query we might be interested in is:
>
>All companies with revenue between $100 million and $500 million in NY, NJ,
>and CT. Job functions include: CIO, CTO, COO, CAO, CFO, CEO, Chairman,
>President.
>
>We could then create high quality brochures and marketing material and mail
>to these addressses. It would be great if we could target
>specific segments
>or industries. Because we could find industries which have a higher
>proclivity for Open Source solutions and package a solution for
>companies in
>that industry. I can send out a list of industries for us to think about.
>It is best if we find an industry that can switch completely over
>to an Open
>Source solution. Rather than an industry that has one or more critical
>software applications that only run on Windows.
>
>For those industries which have trouble converting due to the lack
>of one or
>two key applications, I would like to see the companies in that industry
>come together and start their own open source development to fill their own
>need. It would be interesting to act as catalysts to help such
>projects get
>started. I believe the companies within the industry could both provide
>some capital as well as some in-house programmers to the project. Just the
>threat of this happening may be enough for the software providers in the
>industry to open source their own projects and thus eliminate the
>need for a
>new development effort.
>
>On another note, I hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather today.
>
>Kevin
>
>____________________________
>New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
>Fair Use -
>because it's either fair use or useless....
>
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New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
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