{"id":607,"date":"2014-03-16T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=607"},"modified":"2014-03-16T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T18:45:06","slug":"prototypes-as-sales-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/prototypes-as-sales-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototypes As Sales Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m continually surprised by hardware startups that meet with potential investors, advisors, or partners and don&#8217;t bring hardware to show!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re making something physical and it&#8217;s transportable, bring it to your meetings.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have something to show, consider spending some time on a prototype that you can demonstrate. \u00a0A &#8220;works-like&#8221; or &#8220;looks-like&#8221; prototype (or both) will go a <strong>long<\/strong> way to conveying your vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m continually surprised by hardware startups that meet with potential investors, advisors, or partners and don&#8217;t bring hardware to show! If you&#8217;re making something physical and it&#8217;s transportable, bring it to your meetings. If you don&#8217;t have something to show, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/prototypes-as-sales-tools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}