Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

If you couldn’t make it, here are some interesting insights based on conversations we had and exhibits we visited. For example, I participated in a VR demo at SXSW that was a retail shopping simulation. If a technology makes sense on the roadmap, make sure it can also deliver quality software that people will want to use today.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Let’s jump on a call for a demo and maybe we can talk about pricing at the end.” And after some number of opens, clicks, and visits, we’d go in for the hard sale—a phone call from a sales rep, an office visit to provide a demo, and some kind of “buy now or else” discount on pricing. Straight-forward, logical, easy to track.

Agile 139

Agile Social Media Audience Software Review 139

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. We just finished our 4th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 271

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most important slide: live demo Prototype product Key questions: what will it take to ship a working product? If you find yourself getting asked non-key questions, try to use your answers to steer the conversation back to the key questions. Most important slide: lessons learned Working product Key questions: what does the product do?

San Francisco 128

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 128

Board Effect

JULY 16, 2023

Whatever tools you use, make security a top priority to keep hackers out, restrict sensitive conversations restricted to those who need to know, and protect personal data. See for yourself by booking a demo to learn more. You’ll use it to evaluate both current board members and prospective candidates. But don’t take our word for it.

Government 52

Government Agile Software Leadership 52

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. Or, try product demos at community events such as festivals and fairs. This type of rigorous, critical quality-control allows your brand to be agile.

Agile 60

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

For example, you may find that, upon experimenting with chatbots, it increases demo signups to your SaaS product by ~3%. Understanding this allows you to find new ways to embed this tool into the customer journey, such as: Providing a better experience interacting with the chatbot itself (better copy, conversation paths, etc.)

Software Review 143

Software Review Technical Review San Diego Retention 143

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2018

You can get a hang of the tool by signing up for a 21-day free trial or requesting for a demo. Its ominchannel focus features a conversational AI, Zia, as well as SalesSignals, which streamlines notifications and ensures businesses hit every customer touchpoint. Salesforce.

Artificial Inteligence 83

Artificial Inteligence Agile Software Small Business 83

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. in many cases an example is required - demo, or in my case video guitar lesson along with google ads for quick test data. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Comments, help, suggestions and conversation can happen 24/7. More than 700 startups signed up for the LeanLaunchLab software the day it was first demo’d.) Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 284

Austin Startup

MARCH 21, 2018

However, working in an agile environment means that you’re able to react quickly to feedback and therefore future plans are quite flexible and less detailed. Show it, demo it and test it with people ASAP. Don’t wait?—?get I’d love to hear your comments or questions so please feel free to add them below.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2019

These demos included: Truck and DiagnosticLink, Service Literature Lookup, Repair/Troubleshooting Manual, Express WriteUp and Techlane. Get Those Creative Juices Flowing On Saturday morning, Daimler provided some mentor sessions as well as a marketplace area where hackers could stop by for 5–10 minute hands-on demonstrations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 13, 2015

But once they got the hang of floating their MVPs with customers, these conversations were no longer daunting, they were really a lot of fun,” REDACTED said of his team. He’d present a demo of the prototype and ask customers if it would be useful. Going out to sell the first MVP was daunting,” said one of the project leads, REDACTED.

Security 60

Security Customer Early Stage Agile 60

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. The team realized that sending their MVP before the interview got them very different reactions then just conversations. In slide 5 the team had a first demo of their MVP auto tracking of drones. But for some in the DOD/IC that’s not possible.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. The team realized that sending their MVP before the interview got them very different reactions then just conversations. In slide 5 the team had a first demo of their MVP auto tracking of drones. But for some in the DOD/IC that’s not possible.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

Occasionally though, a “not yet” response simply stems from the inevitable staging of conversations that happens in any startup’s fundraising process. But at NextView we try to be as deeply engaged in the entrepreneurial community in a variety of different ways (mentorship, accelerators, demo events , etc).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Can I sit in on customer demo calls/pitches/discovery calls? waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? agile vs. waterfall) you plan to implement, alongside how you’ll educate and increase the focus on CX throughout the business. Only then might you discover that it doesn’t impact conversion rates.

SQL 117

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

I had a meeting last week where an entrepreneur insisted on showing me a demo first. He was scrambling around asking for wireless keys and looking for ethernet jacks, while I sat there and tried to engage him in conversation. Startups require entrepreneurs to be agile and adept to respond to quickly changing market needs.

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Elevator Pitch NDA Caching Agile 68

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

From search terms being used to visit your website, pages visited, and conversations happening on social media, you can create lead magnets that appeal directly to your audience’s needs to sway customers in the consideration phase. Conversion rate. Learn how to measure your conversion rate to accurately calculate growth.

Analytics 106

Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

When you are presenting to a VC there are two conversations going on – the one you are presenting and the one that investors are thinking as they are listening to your presentation. (If No amount of learning how to get a VC meeting or improving your VC demo skills will fix the lack of concrete customer data.

Customer Development 264

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 264

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey.

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Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 168

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Some head straight to the booth to get a demo; for many I give a private demo of the product on sofas in the hallway. Even "cool, agile" companies like 37signals are trapped. Leave a comment and join the conversation. After the talk typically 5-20 people want to chat one-on-one. That's just one example!

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ConversionXL

JULY 17, 2015

If you have thousands of conversions and you have tens of thousands in your variant, statistics is useless. When we’re using Test&Target for a very large side we definitely try to use 200 plus conversions each recipe before we start to look at the results because there’s too small a sample size. We need to test faster.”

Video 48

Video Mobile Conversion Audience 48

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

It got 10% conversion,” Carrella says. Can we put our demo video on the launchrock page? But what you CAN do is put in the notification bar at the top with a link to your demo video. In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Each referral moves you further up in line.

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Back to demos. 7PM: Agile UX at Lab49 (Hosted by Pivotal Labs). Kristie Weatherford will talk about her experience integrating Agile + UX for Lab49 and her previous engagements. Kristie Weatherford will talk about her experience integrating Agile + UX for Lab49 and her previous engagements. Tuesday, March 2nd.

New York 87

New York Community Agile Venture Capital 87

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Add to that 400 old and new faces, plenty of conversations, live music, and more than a few beers. When setting up interviews , call them “chats,” not interviews—and treat them like chats; anticipate where the conversation could go and listen, listen, listen. Watch their expressions as they see the demo. What’s different?

Artificial Inteligence 114

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Matt Jones (2010-06-20) # Derek: Interesting article - Im not sure if you realize it, but youve basically described what the Agile community calls "User Stories" You may also want to look into tools like Pivotal Tracker for keeping track of stories and prioritizing / scheduling them. BTW: great keynote at Railsconf!

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. Conversely, plenty of folks who write code in more “acceptable” languages/platforms are lazy bastards who have no concept of the underlying complexities of their chosen tools.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Agile eLearning.

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