I was in the Demo Pit -- was good since I'm from Canada, and got to tour the bay area. I wouldn't recommend the Demo Pit -- people spend most of the day in the conference and either head home or make a quick pass through the pit. You will mostly be speaking with service providers. For the price, I wouldn't recommend the conference either (for entrepreneurs, there are much better ways to use the $). If you do end up in the Demo Pit, I would strongly recommend getting a slot on the first day.

Last year, we were the only Demo Pit company to use the student rate ;) This year, the student rate is $149 to attend the conference.

I highly recommend submitting your startup and or attending if you can!

We were also in the DemoPit and from it received our first pieces of press.

We Demoed on the 2nd day, but both of us wore our startup Tshirt and had rented tablet PCs with EVDO cards/service (best to bring your own Internet) to show as many people as we could on the first day.