Title: I know from past experience and from talking with a lot of people that it can be hard to get a response from larger businesses, and even harder to get around their customer service departments and speaking with a higher up.<p>Many startups have services that need participation from larger vendors in order for them to succeed (for example ShopKick). While working on a previous project a large majority of my emails and phone calls to larger companies that we wanted to partner with were ignored. So HN, what are some tips/secrets to getting a response when looking to partner with a company, and who should you be contacting at that company (the CEO's, the marketing department, etc).<p>Edit: It would also be great for any business owners who use HN to weigh in on this as well and let us know what works for you and what types of things you ignore when being contacted about partnerships and biz development.
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