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> in person

But didn't you say virtual?

I really think YC has nailed demo days with their latest iteration. Short 15 minutes update from the leaders, then you watched the 60 second pitches from their companies at your leisure online.

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Perhaps in-person was the wrong word. "Present" is perhaps closer to what I meant. We want our presenters to have an audience. We want audience participation / questions / feedback. We want to create a buzz. ;)

Not saying that YC's format doesn't achieve that. It's just different.

But either way - totally see your point on posting it online afterwards.

> We want audience participation / questions / feedback

Gotcha. Breakout rooms I assume? This makes sense with breakout rooms where you shard the audience into small groups of ~4 or so. Then you get (N/4)^2 interactions

Otherwise it's a waste of time as you only get 1*N interactions.

Exactly. :)

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