Demand validation · Go-to-market
Hoply
- Situation
- A pre-revenue semi-private aviation concept needed evidence that travelers would respond before the founders committed to the expensive operating model.
- Igor’s decision
- Turn the broad ambition into a measurable route-and-price demand test, then read the funnel as decision evidence rather than as campaign vanity metrics.
- What was delivered
- €1,480 generated 1,153 leads at €1.28, a 6.29% click-through rate and 386 booking requests at real fares between €400 and €980. Six named customers placed pre-orders between €3,500 and €5,000.
- What happened next
- The demand test gave the founders evidence before they committed to the operating model. They later froze the company, so there is no downstream business result to claim.