FastGrowth, day 3
summary
Company builds out-of-home tactile walkable VR experiences for malls and theaters, led by founders from ILM/Lucasfilm with ~20 years’ experience, raised a $6M seed (Horizons Ventures) to scale Asia/US deployments and proved the product by demoing in studios to investors. Another company creates refer-a-friend marketing software, grew to 65 people and profitable since 2013, raised from 40+ angels with monthly updates, later converted notes with GoAhead Ventures, and shows growth via double‑incentive referrals where >90% unrewarded sharers signals failure.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:00Speaker introductions
- 2:44Talkable’s referral marketing
- 3:48Divergent growth strategies
- 5:56Scaling internationally
- 7:01Patience in market building
- 8:47Fundraising approaches
- 10:31Seed round strategy
- 13:20Cross-company growth lessons
- 15:05Deep industry expertise
- 17:11VR industry outlook
- 18:58Conference impact story
