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Demo Day Guidelines Prep
modified Sept2024
Outline
- very structured agenda
- kept short for important reasons
- starts with host intro
- each group does demo/preso
- 1 question per group (maybe a second followup)
- after demos, each group table, free for all some-on-somes.
MVP
- what does a User use your product for??
- decide on your main app points → Minimally Viable Product
- ok to add UI that doesn’t work
- avoid talking about what doesn’t work
- non-working UI gives the impression things are more developed
- define a demo flow
Demo Constraints
- Make sure your Demo Data is relevant
- if it’s Lorem Ipsum, you lose people
- 4 minutes total
- All (each) group members must say something substantive
- This gives audience a chance to see you in a strong position
- you’ve done work on the project
- you’ve prepped what you say
- you’ve practiced it
- you clearly care how you come across
- you care about the impression you make on the audience
- this does not include a question from the audience.
- Demo must have a point
- showing what you built into your app
- showing what works
- Demo must have a story arc
- like a good video, song or TV show, demo should tell a little story
- think like a Commercial; storytelling
- WRITE out your script
- Don’t care how smart you think you are
- Don’t care you think you’ll be all right
- Don’t care you think you don’t need to
- Do the work, write it out!
- Critical: Everyone must write their own words in their own voice
140 words per minute is maximum verbiage
So plan on LESS THAN 600 words total for the demo.
hardware/projector
- connect to projector
- maybe need to link to WiFi local
- have a backup laptop