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Preparing for Demo Day: 6 lessons

Preparing for Demo Day is the topic every second team in the cohort asks about in week one.

by Kampus

Preparing for Demo Day: 6 lessons

Preparing for Demo Day is the topic every second team in the cohort asks about in week one. This post is short: what to do, what not to do, and which number to watch.

Why it matters

Because a mistake here is cheap now and expensive later. Preparing for Demo Day is not a task you finish once; it is a habit that comes back every week.

  • One channel, one month
  • The number picks the channel
  • Closing a channel that failed is a result

If the number does not grow, that is an answer too.

How to do it

  1. Talk to ten people
  2. Put the answers in a table
  3. Pick the three most painful
  4. Sketch a solution for those three
  5. Show it to ten more
On campus
On campus

In practice

StageWhat happensResult
Week 1ConversationsTen answers
Week 2First versionSomething to hold
Week 3The testOne number

Small numbers are still numbers. The big plan — short cycles, a result on Friday.

From the campus

Demo Day
Demo Day
The stage
The stage
One room
One room
The team
The team
The cohort
The cohort
On campus
On campus

Questions — the FAQ or info@uzcombinator.uz.