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Dear Bruce,
 
Notes are attached. Please feel free to change/add interviewees or change targeted segments. But, keep only three segments for interviewing. The only important other limitation is that interviewees should be ONLY end-customers (either in long or short run), not experts or any kind of intermediaries. I think that we can interview nine people in the period of 1-2 weeks.
 
Regards
 
Aleksandar
 
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MARKET ANALYSIS
 
    1) Qualitative Analysis
           Overview of all potential segments: Education, Investment Banking, Software, Consulting, Legal, Medical.
           Interview targets: schedule 3 segments x 3 people interviews
           Focus: Interview potential end-customers, do not focus on experts and/or investors.
           Interview Format: open-ended questions, no customer guiding, just listening
                                       length 30-45 min. 5min introductory presentation of the idea
                                       followed by the questions: What do you think? How can you
                                       use this?
 
           Seg 1: Education
                        Dick Lorison, MIT
                        John Levy, HBS Publishing
                        CTO, University of Phoenix
 
           Seg 2: Software
                        Intuit software
                        HP (?), Cisco, Sun
 
            Seg 3: Medical
                         Rubinson
                         NE Journal of Medicine
                         One doctor or Pharma representative
 
        Create customer's need tree.
   
    2)  Product design based on tree/Market Definition
 
    3) Market sizing/Estimates of adoption