One of the best (and quickest!) "business" demos I've ever seen.
How To Pitch A Product
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#12Even though I'm not a coder I was astonished by how he made his presentation. I wonder now if a regular non-hacker VC would appreciate as much as we all geeks do :P #keepthatinmind Awesome!
The product was an API, Application Programming Interface. To demo it properly, you have to do some application programming. Your question applies to any product that the VC wouldn't use her/himself..
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#13Meet, phone, email and snail mail potential buyer in that order.
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#15It sure helps to write code live if you are pitching to developers. John got a big nod from the audience for doing that.
In my experience, writing the code live is asking for trouble. It seemed to work for this particular audience though.
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#16You'd be astonished how magical "I can make your phone ring" feels to people. Family, friends, and people who don't even know me giggle when I do my demo on them.
It's even better if it's a business pitch rather than a technology demo. The world's best sales pitch is always being able to say, "If I push this button then your phone is going to ring 150 times in the next 3 minutes with people who want to buy your product, want to see?"
That's how you get to charge 150K per client per year, and that's why DailyCandy and the like are worth so much.
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#17Q: Why do I need this?
A: You can't live without it.
Most gangsta Q&A answer, ever.
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#18After all the editor religious wars, it's really nice to see the editor he used. nano.
He used nano and PHP, and I think that was a strong tactical choice. It shows how you don't need anything sophisticated to use Twilio. If he pulled out NetBeans with J2EE, or Visual Studio or Emacs with Rails, people will be suspicious there might be some "magic" happening behind the scenes.
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#19Q: Why do I need this? A: You can't live without it. Most gangsta Q&A answer, ever.
I'm dead serious, you're going to get left in the dust if you don't use it.
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#20After all the editor religious wars, it's really nice to see the editor he used. nano.
He used nano and PHP, and I think that was a strong tactical choice. It shows how you don't need anything sophisticated to use Twilio. If he pulled out NetBeans with J2EE, or Visual Studio or Emacs with Rails, people will be suspicious there might be some "magic" happening behind the scenes.
I'm glad you're not making fun of me, I actually do use nano on a daily basis... but I usually run it using `pico`. ;)