by pid-1 on 4/13/2022, 12:57:54 AM
I was contacted a few times by consulting firms to provide expert opinion to hedge funds and other investment business. But generally they didn't want to solve a particular problem, just an overview of some industry or technology.
For more specific stuff, I think that's sort of what AWS IQ does in their domain.
> I would pay for proper help
Out of curiosity, how much?
by jryb on 4/13/2022, 1:12:05 PM
Many of my colleagues have gotten messages on linked in from consulting firms where they basically offer $300 for an hour long phone call with a client. I'm not sure how they're getting picked, but they all have PhDs and papers in the field the client is interested in.
I definitely think there's something to the idea of making the discovery process easy. I would pay to chat with a doctor about a bunch of things that aren't related to my personal health, and to someone who works on industrial electrolyzers, just off the top of my head.
by atlasunshrugged on 4/13/2022, 12:27:11 AM
Totally depends on the industry. I've been called on as an expert a few times by GLG which seems to do this as a service https://glginsights.com but I don't think they cover everything and there are other companies in more specific verticals like tech support for companies (https://www.electric.ai/)
It feels like there's a business opportunity here to somehow connect the people who know with the people (like me) who are willing to pay for an hour or two of a proper expert's time.
In my most recent case, I have a pihole with cloudflared dns-over-https, and I get frequent rejections. Nobody likes being rejected, especially when it means your network is useless 25% of the time. But web searches lead nowhere. I would pay for proper help, but there's no obvious service to match the experts with the clients.
Is there one? If not, is there interest to build such a matchmaking service?