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What makes NDR different

New research methods...

Traditional consumer research uses a limited set of methodologies. We enrichtraditional research methods and methodologies with updated research methods,data types that represent new customers today.

A more complete picture...

Our team is an interdisciplinary network of statisticians, ecologists, filmmakers, data scientists, academics across institutions. The insights we produce are resilient and distinctive.

Investments in curiosity...

Our curiosity drives us to access new ways of seeing, to take you further. We make significant investments in order to help you to access new ways of seeing. Our founders rank in the top 95% percentile for openness to experience, a psychological proxy for curiosity.

Integration-First Research...

As a fast growing startup, you are experts at leveraging limited resources to produce outsized outputs. We our insight production process has been designed Landing page text draft 2to produce insights that balance our breadth and rigour, with immediate product demands.

Founder and company origins

NDR was founded in 2019 and incorporated in 2021, after a series of targeted travels exposed founding partner Mark Nguyen to a variety of research disciplines and cultures. There, he intuited that resilient and enduring truths about the people and the world, the kind that we might aspire to obtain, might exist, with those willing to do the hard work of building disciplinary and cultural bridges.

A highly curious individual (ranked 95th percentile in openness based on HEXACO, he applies this rare personality trait into a wide range of pursuits. This laid out the foundations for NDR. Mark is a member of ACM Association of Computing Machinery), AMA American Marketing Association), and ACR(Association of Consumer Research) and volunteers time and organizations improving technology adoption in underserved communities. He earned both his BBA, and MBA from the Schulich School of Business, where he studied marketing and consumer behaviour under the top 0.5% most cited researchers within the field.

Team

Our team consists of a network of independent researchers, consultants, and specialists from both academia, and industry. Members of our team have served McDonalds, Starbucks, hailed research from Market Research firms Kantar, and Ipsos, as well as worked within technology companies like Meta, and Microsoft.

Startups that we've worked with have raised

$2B+

Still curious?

Incomplete and outdated insights are a thing of the past. We give you a front seat into how your customers live, work and interact. We weave together diverse inputs into a complete picture, for your product.

We don't shy away from tradition either.

We also offer standard research methods, so you can get full coverage to innovate, growth hack, and keep your startup on top of its game. Those offerings are: interviews, focus groups and evaluative research methods such as usability testing.

We’re that missing piece if:

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Are you ready to discover wha your customers truly want? Reach out now to explore our innovative research solutions tailored for tech startups.

FAQ

What return of investment (ROI) could we expect working with NDR?

A case study with research and evidence

  • Our research was previously leveraged to secure un-disclosable follow on capital commitments in the millions.
  • Our research improved
  • Our research produced
How is Nguyen Digital (NDR) different as a research company?
  • We go wide.
  • We have developed our own novel research methods.
  • We are integration first researchers.
Why are novel research methods something to pay attention to?
  • All breakout businesses are founded on unique consumer understanding. We believe that in order to uncover unique and resilient consumer insights that produce entirely new markets, you require novel methods.
I want to hear more. How can I reach out?
  • mark@nguyendigital.co