Comments on: Panda Mating – More on the The Demo http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/10/panda-mating-more-on-the-the-demo.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/10/panda-mating-more-on-the-the-demo.html/comment-page-1#comment-3692 Peter Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:14:34 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1302#comment-3692 I just have to say, "what entrepreneur (or assigned flunkee), who was worth at least his/her weight in Iraqi Dinar, would be so obtuse as to begin a show-and-tell product-demo with a 'create acct' scenario?" (or any non-value-added brainless task that one's software does?) Is there any excuse for a bottom-up demo unless only a bottom-up can appropriately address what your business/app is attempting to accomplish? It's not the end of the world, but I do wonder how some companies get funded. This is not MBA-type stuff here - this is just common sense. Show me how your company adds value - period. Don't waste my time with nonsense. It's really very simple. Is it really possible that the person giving the demo mistook their _audience_ for the complete flunkies? I mean, why don't you break out the full-featured browser tutorial next time? Or maybe ask the attendees to pre-read and study 'Internet for Dummies' before you all meet-up? I can hardly imagine my engineering prof's face if I went to his office with something like, "well, i was kinda lookin at this foo..." - he would have just glared and I would have known instantly that I'd just wasted 5 seconds of his precious time. My only recourse would be to then stop treating him like a child and actually tell him what the purpose of my visit was. Too funny. I just have to say, “what entrepreneur (or assigned flunkee), who was worth at least his/her weight in Iraqi Dinar, would be so obtuse as to begin a show-and-tell product-demo with a ‘create acct’ scenario?” (or any non-value-added brainless task that one’s software does?)

Is there any excuse for a bottom-up demo unless only a bottom-up can appropriately address what your business/app is attempting to accomplish?

It’s not the end of the world, but I do wonder how some companies get funded. This is not MBA-type stuff here – this is just common sense. Show me how your company adds value – period. Don’t waste my time with nonsense. It’s really very simple.

Is it really possible that the person giving the demo mistook their _audience_ for the complete flunkies? I mean, why don’t you break out the full-featured browser tutorial next time? Or maybe ask the attendees to pre-read and study ‘Internet for Dummies’ before you all meet-up?

I can hardly imagine my engineering prof’s face if I went to his office with something like, “well, i was kinda lookin at this foo…” – he would have just glared and I would have known instantly that I’d just wasted 5 seconds of his precious time. My only recourse would be to then stop treating him like a child and actually tell him what the purpose of my visit was.

Too funny.

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