Great articles roundup: Demo day, VCs, cost of content marketing and startup PR mistakes
By Hailley Griffis
In this week’s roundup we rail against misconception, with articles from PandoDaily, Venture Beat, Business to Community and Washington Business Journal. The authors are clearly fed up with people thinking demo days are a good idea, becoming a venture capitalist is easy, content marketing is free and doing public relations for startups is simple.
Let’s kill the demo day and replace it with a one-year reunion
Erin Griffith makes a good point in stating that a three-month program with a demo day at the end may not be the best for startups or their investors. Rather, she proposes something closer to a reunion where startups are forced to provide value and truly demonstrate their periodic growth. This eliminates all of the hype that demo days create, as well as a few other things.
