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# Demo & Pitch Night 2
## Early-Mid February 2024

Coming soon...
## 29 February 2024

## Objectives

Share your progress with the club, get feedback from industry guests, and practice your public speaking and pitching.

This is a pitch and demo, you are selling your product to investors.

## Quick Info

### Start Time: 6pm sharp

### Time Limit: 10 minutes

### Dress Code: Business Casual

## What to do

Keep the focus on the product.
Demo your product live, if it's deployed that's even better but localhost is okay.
Have a pre-recorded demo *as a backup*, in case things go wrong.

## What not to do

Don't show any code.
Don't talk about your challenges and wins.

## Suggested talking points

These are just suggestions and not at all mandatory, but may help get you started.

### General

- Talk about the problem space & your solution (create a story around it)
- Introduce team members
- Talk about features (MVP)
- Roadmap of what you'll do next (adding x feature, finalizing for launch, etc.)

### Strategy

- STP Analysis
- Exploring monetization and revenue models
- Income & Expenditure forecasts in the real world
- Unique Value Proposition, Problem Statement & Branding (collaborate with design team)
- Market size research, figure out Total Addressable Market, Serviceable Addressable
- Competition Research

### Design

- Create a user persona (based on your user research) to explore the problem space - (collaborate with strategists)
- How has user research driven your decision on what to include in your MVP features? List some of the features.
- Show your high-fidelity designs / technical demo

### Development

- *Quick* overview of tech stack, showing off tech's best feature
- (e.g. *we're using NextJS hosted on Vercel because it lets us rapidly deploy changes to our users*)
- How are you deploying your app?
- Launch plans
- Would you like to be on the App Store, etc?
- Show a functional demo

## Milestones

These [milestones](https://docs.techstartucalgary.com/projects/roadmap/index.html#step-1---start-with-milestones) will give you a rough idea of where you should be by the demo, they are not requirements.

### Strategy

- Everything money related figured out
- business model
- revenue forecasts
- expenses

### Design

- Usability testing on prototype is complete
- High-fidelity designs are complete
- Final designs are handed off to development

### Development

- Front-end and back-end connected
- Deployed to cloud providers (AWS, Vercel, etc.)
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At this event, people from different industries and backgrounds
come and give us feedback on the projects.

This is also a great opportunity for you as a professional and us
This is also a great opportunity for you as a professional and us
as a club to connect and network with different companies.

It's important to remember that as an entrepreneurial club, you will
also be pitching your ideas to potential investors, so your hard work
also be pitching your ideas to potential investors, so your hard work
on the business strategy will be on display here. Pitching your start-up
in a convincing manner is a critical skill, so we also give you the opportunity to
practice this.
in a convincing manner is a critical skill, so we also give you the opportunity to
practice this.

This year's showcase is scheduled for **April 27th, 2023**.
To prepare for this, we want each team to demo and pitch their project to
the club before the showcase. This will help you get experience and valuable
This year's showcase is scheduled for **April 27th, 2024**.
To prepare for this, we want each team to demo and pitch their project to
the club before the showcase. This will help you get experience and valuable
feedback from fellow project teams, execs, and our partners in industry.

# Dates to Remember
| Date | Event | Audience|
|-------------------------|---------------:|--------:|
| 30 November 2023 | Demo & Pitch Night 1 | Project Teams & Execs |
| Early-mid February 2024 | Demo & Pitch Night 2 | TBD |
| Early April | Demo & Pitch Night 3 | TBD |
## Dates to Remember

| Date | Event | Audience | Location |
|------------------|---------------------:|-----------------------------:|---------------------------:|
| 30 November 2023 | Demo & Pitch Night 1 | Project Teams & Execs | ENC 201 |
| 29 February 2024 | Demo & Pitch Night 2 | Tech Start & Industry Guests | ENC 201 |
| Early April | Demo & Pitch Night 3 | TBD | TBD |
| 27 April 2024 | Final Showcase | Open to the Public | Hunter Hub Collision Space |

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