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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Steve Blank

And inviting to the booth/dinner/private demo. General Comments for both Awareness and Lead Generation Demo’s I don’t care how small the booth or trade show is, do a canned demo every 20 to 30 minutes regardless of whether anyone is at your booth or not. Demo’s are the heart of the booth. One of them is a loser.

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Where is the Metaverse headed in 2023?

VC Cafe

L eanne Eliott-Young ( Institute of Digital Fashion ) commented on how fashion brands leaning in to engage with younger customers Roblox. Finally, Faisal Galaria, CEO of Blippar closed the event with a live demo of the company’s No code AR builder – so simple even a kid can do it (try it at [link] ).

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. Something Profound Engineering gave us a demo of the prototype board and software and asked, “Do you guys think we can sell a few of these boards?” We must have made them play the demo twenty times. My first IPO at Convergent.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

No amount of learning how to get a VC meeting or improving your VC demo skills will fix the lack of concrete customer data. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. You might as well bring your lucky rabbits foot to the VC meeting.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

My company is in the contract automation business so we have made our NDA available for free on our demo page so people can use it for free if they think it works for them. EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.]

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How to Craft a Digital Advertising Strategy that Combats Rising Costs and Captures New Customers

ConversionXL

In the consideration stage, use demo videos, webinars, free trials, etc. According to MetrixLab , who conducted “numerous advertising meta-analyses across more than 20 different verticals, and in every major region globally,” 12 themes are most common in the strongest digital ad creative: Image source.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.