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All I Want for Christmas... More InnovationDecember 16 2008

With just a little more than a week before Christmas and then the slide into the New Year, the team at DEMO is hustling to support the first dozen or so companies invited to DEMO 2009 while filling the early January calendar with lots of meetings to see the products vying for a spot at the March DEMO conference.

Are recessions good for innovation?December 11 2008

The DEMO podcasts are back! This week Carla and Keith discuss reasons why economic downturns can spark even more innovation; companies that debuted during bad economic times; and take a look back at 2008 to see how it will be remembered in the long run. (30:47)

Lessons learned in the rough waters of today's economyDecember 10 2008

Long before the economy headed south, I'd made plans to head west last week. The plan was to spend a week of calm in Hawaii before the holiday and the DEMO 09 planning-crush storm. What I didn't count on were the first big swells of the winter season. Big waves that churned up the waters, making the SCUBA diving I'd counted on more than a little challenging.

Here You Go, Paul: The DEMO Success ParadeDecember 1 2008

Here we go again... In a pre-Thanksgiving post on Valley Wag titled "Is the Demo conference still worth $18,500?" Paul Boutin stirs up the old DEMO vs. TechCrunch50 debate, dismissing the complete and transparent discussion of DEMO's business practices published here last week and instead calling for a "list [of] all the successful products that were launched at DEMO."

In a Tough Economy DEMO Delivers ValueNovember 25 2008

As the December 1 deadline for DEMO 09 demonstrator applications approaches, you can bet that we're getting all sorts of questions about the event, the audience it pulls, its track record, and - most notably - its price.