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O. SantolallaCreate and Deliver a Killer Product Demohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3954-4_8

8. How to Avoid Common Glitches

Oscar Santolalla1  
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Helsinki, Finland
 

“When you do demos, you have to surrender to the demo gods.”

—Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure

You might have seen demos that didn’t fail badly but had noticeable problems. Indeed, many things can go wrong in a demo, even if you have created an awesome demo and you are well prepared and rehearsed. There are still a number of things that you’d rather check before the demo day.

First of all, let’s take a moment and think of what can go wrong in a demo. The following is only a partial list of things that can go wrong.
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