Ask HN: What problems are you working on for the buy-side/hedge fund industry?

5 points by curiousjorge ↗ HN
What problem are you/startup working on and in what domain? What problems are in demand and worth doing? How did you pitch and land your first paying customers?

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Buy-side infrastructure funds and their intermediaries bidding on regulated energy assets (Australia-only at the moment).

We started building web-based analysis tools for regulated energy companies (helping them keep on-top of their regulated rates of return, regulatory news, etc) and it turns out potential acquirers also want these tools.

We pretty much provide an automated regulatory analyst via a web-app.

Pitched to 1st-degree consulting contacts.