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Matt Maroon: Demo Day B and Beyond
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- dfranke 19y agoMatt, do you know where the bad poker players in Somerville hang around? I, uh, need to raise some angel money, and Seabrook is a schlep.
- mattmaroon 19y agoI don't know of anything closer than Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun.
- dfranke 19y agoSeabrook is closer than Foxwoods. It's in NH, and if you can't make money at their hold'em tables then it's probably time to take up backgammon. The downside is that by state law, there are no cash games available other than 2-2 limit. You can still play tournaments for higher stakes though.
- aston 19y ago"I think Y Combinator should always do a Boston demo day first, even during the winter session, just to give people the practice." Pretty hilarious. Or sad.
- henning 19y agoI wish that big chunk of bitmapped type he has at the top of every page was antialiased. The ugliness distracts from his thoughts on poker, Guitar Hero, and other profound topics.
- portLAN 19y agoGreat chutzpah setting the record straight in front of everyone. Note for presenters: Have a contingency plan if your demo breaks that involves something other than insulting a guy who's doing you a favor. Good restraint saying "I wasn't seeing any video" rather than "their demo was unrehearsed and the product didn't work". Cambridge sounds even worse than I thought. YC should do everything in SV and just have a trip out to Boston for demo day -- although from the sound of it there's not much point, if the Boston investors are such that the East Coast bunch has to move to SV for funding anyway. Good for warmups for the SV investors, though. If you want to give your start-up the best shot, why spend all that time in the distant-second place (Boston is #2) when you could be in #1?