Ask HN: $5K-15K “innovation facilitation” purchases my enterprisy corp can make?

#1

Post by bayonetz » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 7:08 PM UTC

Have some funds that need to be spent so any ideas for tools or tech in the $5K-$15K range?

Think stuff like language processing, social media analysis, "big data" tools, software development quality or productivity enhancers, visualization libraries, anything neat/novel/cool, etc. etc. etc.?

Maybe your startup is selling something I should know about?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Ask HN: $5K-15K “innovation facilitation” purchases my enterprisy corp can make?

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Post by leowidrich » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 7:14 PM UTC

Love the name "innovation facilitation" - one of the big things we've been working on at Buffer is called "Buffer for Teams" - in short, it's a way where you can suggest content to share on team members social accounts and people can swipe it (http://bufferapp.com/daily) to approve or reject. Especially PR launches, announcements, blogposts, etc, that more people at your company want to share could be helpful - pricing is very early and less of importance to us, (your budget sounds good) - if you're interested in exploring this, please ping me leo@bufferapp.com - we currently have a few people trialling it and they seem to get a lot of fun, value from spreading news more widely about a company.

Re: Ask HN: $5K-15K “innovation facilitation” purchases my enterprisy corp can make?

#3

Post by calcsam » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 7:15 PM UTC

The best tool is a tool that solves a pain point in your organization. Find the pain point, then figure out a tool to solve it. If it doesn't solve a pain point, no one will use it.

Re: Ask HN: $5K-15K “innovation facilitation” purchases my enterprisy corp can make?

#4

Post by alwaysunday » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 3:31 PM UTC

Visage.co could be interesting. We're focused on bringing data visualization to the content marketer while adhering to brand guidelines.

Andy@visage.co if it sounds interesting.