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It all depends on your expectations. Your mismatched expectations led you to an overgeneralized blanket statement. Smaller conferences with a core, focused audi

• netvarun 15y ago
  Conferences (regardless of their size) take a lot of time and effort. Gotta do your marketing collaterals, write your press releases, setup your booth. More importantly taking part in them costs big money (in our case, the awesome Singapore government paid for us) IHMO, early stage startups that still are in heavy development are better off being holed up in their offices working day and night than exhibiting at conferences. The high costs (both in terms of money and time) are simply not worth it. You have a good point regarding the type of conference. As I mentioned in my blog post, maybe a more focused conference (eg. The Strate Data Conf) could have resulted in better outcomes for us. But once again I am not too sure I want to take part in any of them any time soon (atleast until we have shipped our product)
  • alain94040 15y ago
    early stage startups that still are in heavy development are better off being holed up in their offices working day and night That's the part I disagree with. Facing your potential customers, the press and key players, is not something you'll do if you stay locked up in your office. You learned a valuable lesson: no one cared about the awesome startup you are working on. It's disappointing, and there can be many reasons for that (wrong audience, bad pitch, bad product). But at least the delusion you may have had that as soon as you show your product, everyone will love it... well now reality set it.