I'll try to go point by point. * pre-show assistance may be available in 2011 for selected presenters. We're thinking of doing a bunch of practice sessions on

I'll try to go point by point. * pre-show assistance may be available in 2011 for selected presenters. We're thinking of doing a bunch of practice sessions on Monday and Tuesday before the main event. * re:tables, it really depends on the startup. The main purpose is so that people can easily find you when they want to talk to you. Some startups just show up with themselves and a laptop for demos. That's totally cool. Others bring a big shebang. That's fine too. It totally ranges and usually depends on where they are at in terms of lifecycle. Honestly, this is more about susbtance than style. * Additional company reps are $30 each although I'm considering of waiving that for the 1st attendee after the presenter (presenter is ALWAYS free to attend of course). We might do more than that but it'll depend on what we can line up in terms of sponsor dollars. Even if we can't, it's only $30 per person. Compared to other so called "inexpensive" events, we're one or more orders of magnitude cheaper. And company reps have an easy time getting approved to attend - we've never barred startup personnel UNLESS they are consultants (like PR firm reps or something) in which case we have a discussion about it. Hope that long winded answer helps. This stuff should go online in the near future via a FAQ page. You can find the FAQs for 2010 at http://2010.startupriot.com http://2010.startupriot.com Thanks for the questions!