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Prowinter 2023 – Fierabolzano.it

Fierabolzano.it – Prowinter 2023 are organized by Fiera Bolzano SpA – Messe Bozen AG. It will be held on 07 February – 09 February 2023 in Bolzano, Italy. Fierabolzano.it | Prowinter 2023 You just need to follow the steps to participate in Fiera Bolzano SpA – Messe Bozen AG. (Prowinter). Open your default internet browser.Type www.fierabolzano.it it in your address bar. Fill in all the…

In this third week many things happened. 

First, we participated to a barcamp focused on tourism. Here we shared what we discovered during our researches and interviews about winter sports equipment rental trends. The main points of the discussion concerned the trends and the customers. For the former, the rent is an increasing trend compared with the purchasing and Italy is a less mature market compared with France and Switzerland where rent is five years ahead. For the latter, we discovered that the best customer segment is very dependent on the sports considered, so there is a no an unique solution.

We had the occasion to try our pitch with Evan Nisselson who is one of the TechPeaks mentors (he is also a mentor at 500startups, Seedcamp, NYseed, Tetuan Valley and Mind the Bridge) to get his valuable feedback. But this was not the only valuable feedback, because every techpeakers was encouraged to participate in this pitching session and wear either the role of investor or of the customer and criticize each pitch. The feedback we received was that the target we are addressing were unclear. We have also to communicate better the milestones achieved and the number of users we have access to, thanks to our current partnerships. Here in the pic it's possible to see how Evan corrects us the posture required during a pitch.

During the rest of the week we worked on the organization of a trip by bike in order to test Upendu for what concerns biking, but unfortunately a series of bad luck related to Francesco's health forces us to give up one day before we planned to do the trip. Here a "must have" selfie at the hospital. Don't worry Francesco will be ok in few days.

Last but not the least event of the week was the Prowinter in Bolzano, landmark fair dedicated to winter sports rental industry and services. We participated on Friday and we spoke to a lot of famous brand (such as Tecnica, Rossignol, Salomon, Nitro, Burton) gathering a lot of (not always coherent) feedback. This fair was really useful to understand the problems of their businesses and how they think. We presented also two versions of Upendu, a sort of A\B pitch test in order to see the different reactions from the businesses involved in the fair.

In this week, already started, we will take part to the LSM (lean startup machine), the world famous workshop to learn to build a successful business in three days! At the same time we will be really busy in the validation of some hypothesis came thanks to the Prowinter.

We still can't believe how many things could happen in just one week! Stay tuned!

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