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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