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📣 bjacobt

Do B2B business introduction services/groups exist?


Hello, I'm the founder of a SaaS looking to get introductions to a few SF Bay area companies like Waymo, Uber, Lyft. I don't have a large enough network to ask for introductions and wanted to see if anyone knew of any services or groups that offered B2B business introductions. I have seen a Facebook ad for a company that provided introductions a year or two ago, but I'm unable to find it now.

  👤 Jugurtha Accepted Answer ✓
Ask yourself what you want to accomplish and who at these companies can help you do that. Define who you need to talk with. Then find them on Twitter or LinkedIn and contact them.

If you don't get a name, get a role or a department. John Doe (person), CTO(role), Biz dev, engineering, etc(department, division).

Contact the company and ask to be put in contact with them.

Physically go there and ask to meet someone.

Use the following queries in Google Search:

  site:https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id= Waymo

 
 site:https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id= Uber

 
 site:https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id= Lyft
Contact the people based on the information provided in their profiles. Introduce yourself as a fellow HN user. Describe what you're working on. Describe what you need. Ask if they can help directly or indirectly by orienting you to a person closer to resonnance with what you need. Repeat.

If they left the company, ask if they can point you to someone who's still there.

Always thank them.

Keep track of people and provide this as well: I asked someone here recently about what they do. They emailed me to explain their tech. I thought "You definitely ought to talk with X and Y" and asked if they'd like an introduction.

When you find something useful that could be relevant to the people you contacted, send it their way. It could be anything. Periodically ask about how they're doing. You might help sometimes. These two points are additional, I don't know if you care about people or not. I do and I'm interested, therefore that's what I do by default.