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Before I read it, I thought this would be an interesting idea, along with NYC Entrepreneur Week (http://nyew.org) - except that this is 8 startups that already have enough exposure (given that they got into these seed programs) presenting to ... er, I have no idea who? Looks like you need an invite to get in, so I'm assuming it is only open to VCs (which would explain why it's called Demo Day).

What would really rock (and I feel like NYC has very few of these entrepreneur friendly events - other than the tech meetup and the web2newyork meetup) is something like the NYTM showcase that was done at Internet Week, which allowed every willing company to put up a booth to interact with everyone at the event, with the funds coming from sponsorships. Except that these companies should be allowed to present for a 10 minutes each.

When are we going to have exciting things like that happen in New York? :-)

Check out the NY Tech Meetup - you can to present in front of a crowd of 400 tech enthusiasts; VCs, press and alike are in the crowd. Some even have received funding, as well some fairly big sites launched there (Delicious, Muxtape, Hype Machine & some others).

I've been to NYTM and while Nate is doing a great job, I think it's still too big and represents more of the 'business entrepreneur' community than the 'engineer' community.

The Hackers & Founders meetup that Dave (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=daveambrose) runs is a lot more interesting but smaller and does not have demo's.

Maybe I'm just out of it but the NY tech community feels a lot more fragmented than the one out on the west coast.

Thanks bringing this up. Demos are something I plan on including for next month (largely for timing/prep concerns) as we're getting close to our meetup this coming Thursday. I'll be sending out an open invite tomorrow.

For those of you that'd like to present or share ideas as to the format for our first Demo H&F in October, please email me: daveambrose at gmail.com.

Delicious didn't launch there. I did show it on the very first meetup though.

oops well you showed it at the meetup. Pardon I should have said demoed rather then launched. Probably the others I mentioned did not launch there either. Though Muxtape did, pretty sure.

NY Tech Meetup is lame, it should be relabeled NY Marketing Meetup because that's all it really is.

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