Ask YC: What resources do you use for your market research?

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18 years ago

I need data in regards to our market. A sampling of 1,000 people to various niche questions. I was wondering what creative ways others have used to gather data to present to angels and VCs? We are looking to do this on the cheap, as Google and libraries have failed us!

Things we have done or planning to do is...

1. We used a twitter search... summize.com, but Twitter's API only goes back 200 Tweets. It says total 2,000 tweets on topic, but only shows 200 :(

2. Ask friends who are pastors or teachers to ask a question here or there and do a head count.

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