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9 Product Demo Examples that Stand Out & Convert

ConversionXL

A product demo is a critical tool in the sales process. In this article, you’ll learn what makes a compelling demo. In this article, you’ll learn what makes a compelling demo. We’ll look at the important principles and break down how successful companies use demos to engage prospects. Done right, it’s a deal maker.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

Steve Blank

This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of wasted time, money, resources, and a demoralized engineering team. We spent weeks integrating the sample data they gave us to build a functional prototype, and then after our demo they just ghosted us. I still don’t know what happened!”

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How to Deliver More Software Projects On Time

Both Sides of the Table

We feel pressure to hit milestones for a variety of reasons: Investor presentations, conference demos, customer sales meetings, competitive pressures, a need to drive revenue, business development commitments – whatever. There is nothing that will focus the mind more than not wanting to be on stage with a demo that bombs.

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DEMO Report: Startup Creativity Through Variety

ReadWriteStart

I think the applications (for the service) are almost endless," gushed panelist John Dillon, chief executive of cloud platform provider Engine Yard. "I And as with many other startups debuting at DEMO, it's not clear how Knoema will make money. NotesCloud's templates make it possible to build impressive-looking books. "I

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When VCs Play Defense

Both Sides of the Table

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. They want you to attend demo days. start-ups are overvalued… The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. It’s exhausting.

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Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market

Steve Blank

Apple is trying to push Vision Pro into their existing consumer customers All the demos and existing applications are oriented to their consumer customers Apple did not create demos for how the Vision Pro could be used in new markets where users would jump on buying a Vision Pro. Or jet engine maintenance.

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