DEMO

I am down here in Arizona for DEMO.

In this post from last year, I described why I stopped coming to DEMO and it's as true as ever.

There are 60 companies here at DEMO and at last night's VC dinner, hosted by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), there were at least 50-60 VCs in the room.

Those aren't good odds and as a result I am not here to find companies to invest in.

But I've already had a great time hanging out with my friends Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan whose First Round Capital are sponsors and affiliates of DEMO.  I also got to spend quality time with blog buddies Michael Arrington and David Hornik as well as bunch of VC friends.

I will try to blog as much of this as I can, but don't come here to get the lastest DEMO news.

I am sure there are better places for that.

Comments

[Erik Schwartz]

I also question the model from a young company standpoint. Is Demo a good use of a cash efficent, prefunded company's $20-25k?

If you're going the angel route, hopefully you've chosen angels with connections to introduce you to the VC community. If you're totally bootstrapped then the cost to show at Demo is really high. Even if you are bootstrapped, if you're such a bad networker that you can't get a VC's attention for at least a pitch, then maybe you need to add to the team, because networking is an important skill for a start up to have.

Chris should charge the companies $2K to present and the VC's $20k to attend.