you could try finding relevant subreddits with people that are looking for help with finding a new job and interact with those that post about problems your business may solve.

you could try finding relevant reddits for your ideas and interact with people that post about problems your business may solve.

build in public doesn’t have to be technical. You can show all kinds of stuff. If you’re building a course, try posting about what content goes into it and why. Ask for feedback on your idea, find out what people would like to see in such course, etc.

I would only contact friends if they’re you’re ideal customer. If they’re just doing it to be nice, it’s no use for both of you

you could try going through reddit/twitter/linkedin and find people that either have a problem your business could solve or have a BI specific problem you might have a solution for. In both scenarios don’t pitch them to hard on your service, just mention that when introducing yourself or so.

I’m building some automation app around this topic. still in the early prototyping phase, but I think the approach in general is quite useful, even if done manually

Testing out a new idea: Finding people with a problem I can solve or help with automatically on reddit/twitter/linkedin and then jump in manually to chat with them. Saves like 80% of the time spent searching