The same way that I feel about "Industry Analysts" charging you to read a report that describes clients who paid to be in the report. If you don't know why cer

The same way that I feel about "Industry Analysts" charging you to read a report that describes clients who paid to be in the report. If you don't know why certain kinds of companies gladly participate in this fairly obvious type of grift, you have no business playing the game. See also: Paying money to be in some kind of dog-and-pony show or hackathon in the hope that investors attending the event get interested in maybe setting something up to discuss who else is funding you and whether they might want to follow-on.