DEMO Conference

DEMO event, Sept. 21-23 in San Diego! Preferred reg. rate of $1995 expires today, 6/30. Don't miss new Alphapitch program, DEMO Lifetime Achievement award winners and more. http://www.demo.com

Join Matt Marshall and Chris Shipley for a DEMO Meetup tomorrow, July 1 at Lanai in Austin, TX from 6-8 p.m. Register now athttp://demoaustin.eventbrite.com/

July 16, San Francisco: Join Matt Marshall, co-executive producer of the DEMO conference, along with influential investors, mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, press and analysts at MobileBeat 2009 for one-day of in depth discussion, debate and networking...

There is the inevitable question that arises during these DEMO meetups we’ve been holding around the country. Matt Marshall and I both hail from Silicon Valley, and here we are in New York, D.C., Seattle, L.A., and next week Boston and Austin...

On Monday evening, one hundred or so Friends of DEMO gathered at a downtown Palo Alto bar for one in a series of meetups being held around the country this summer. The bar was packed with old friends who for many years have attended or launched products...

On Monday evening, one hundred or so Friends of DEMO gathered at a downtown Palo Alto bar for one in a series of meetups being held around the country this summer...

DEMO presents DEMO Seattle Meetup -- Monday, June 22, 2009 -- Seattle, WA

Iknew that headline would get your attention! After all, in this market, everyone could use some extra dough. And what young company isn’t looking to raise some capital? For many years, I’ve advised companies on market position, product definition, funding strategies, and venture pitches...

DEMO presents DEMO Palo Alto Tweetup -- Monday, June 15, 2009 -- Palo Alto, CA

Last month, Matt Marshall and I got together with about 14 angel and institutional investors to hear how they were thinking about the market, the economy, and the startups they are seeing...

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: it’s a mistake to think that Silicon Valley is the only place to find great technology products and companies. No doubt, Silicon Valley remains the center point of innovation...

DEMO co-executive producer, Matt Marshall is in DC this week and is hosting a meetup on Thursday night from 5:30 to 8 pm along with DEMO’s SVP and GM, Neal Silverman and Social Time’s founder, Nick O’Neill...

Last Thursday, DEMO hosted a breakfast roundtable in Silicon Valley, where fourteen prominent institutional and angel investors shared their perspectives with Matt Marshall and me. It was a ranging conversation about the hot button issues for venture capital...

As I write this, my flight is beginning to makes its approach into Denver. This afternoon, I’ll meet two companies that are planning ahead to a September product launch, and hoping that DEMOfall will be the right platform for them...

For those of us who spend our days in search of the latest innovations, nothing is more exciting – professionally speaking – than spending time deeply engaged with entrepreneurs. The enthusiasm, optimism, and – yes – even idealism is palpable...

A number of cool new program features were announced today for our upcoming DEMOfall 09 event...

Here we go again. For the 24th and final time in 13 years, I've begun the search to identify game-changing products to present at DEMO. As always, I embark on the process with the anticipation of a youngster in December: it's never certain what surprises await, but they are sure to be exciting...

It’s fitting to wrap up this series on pitching your company by talking about the product. After all, this is DEMO. Each year, I hear hundreds of company presentations, and a surprising majority of them gloss over the product that they are planning to bring or have brought to market...

You might be surprised at the number of times we hear that a company "has no real competitors." It is one of the biggest mistakes an entrepreneur can make when positioning his company...

At a time when many companies are struggling to grow sales and raise new money, Adapx (www.adapx.com) announced today record customer growth and the closing of $9 million in Series B financing...

There are few reasons for businesses today to smile about financials, except for me. I’m practically grinning, because part of my job includes receiving emails and tracking news about DEMO alumni companies and their success stories...

Over the past 10 days, I’ve been traveling across Europe with my Guidewire Group colleagues Mike Sigal and Carla Thompson conducting our “Going Global” workshops in advance of the Innovate!Europe Master Class (www.innovate-events.com) in May...

Keith Shaw catches up with DD Ganguly, CEO of Dimdim, to get an update on how the company has fared since DEMOfall 07, why startups should always be raising money, and what's new in Version 5 of their, free and open Web collaboration platform...

Distributed media network Glam Media (DEMOfall 07 Alumni) raised an additional $10 million in funding, their total to date exceeds $124 million...