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Crowded bar conversation test
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Last discussed Oct 14, 2026
A positioning test: can you explain your product in two sentences in a noisy bar so that the listener wants to check it out? It is a stricter alternative to the elevator pitch.
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An Update on My Next Book
Kevin Rose · Oct 14, 2026
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Used for: Distilling product or book positioning into a simple concept
Praised: Forces cutting features down to one clear concept
vs: Contrasted with the elevator pitch
"Can you really distill down this idea to that one concept so that when you're in that, I used to call it the crowded bar conversation. Not the elevator pitch, but the crowded bar. Like, if you want to say in two sentences what your thing does. Can..."
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