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Re:Lessons from My AlphaLab Experience by tptacek on Saturday December 12, 2009 @01:38PM (#991803)
The "heavy hitters" in the room at "demo days" seem to be firm associates. Associates are mostly irrelevant to you. If you try just a little bit, you should be able to get meetings with firm partners. You probably don't have any traction with a firm until you've taken a 1-on-1 with a partner.

Maybe my VC knowledge is stale (it's from 2005) but a room full of VC associates seems pretty unattractive.

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Re:Lessons from My AlphaLab Experience by dcharlton on Saturday December 12, 2009 @02:38PM (#991850)
You definitely have partners in the room as well—but I would say the closer the VC's office are to the Demo Day location, the more likely you will have a partner present. The further, the more likely it will be an associate. Agreed?
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