The best, and worst, of Demo Fall 2008

[snydeq]

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/10/37NF-demo2008-best-worst_1.html

[zain]

It is interesting to note that the majority of startups at DEMO are hardware companies while most at TechCrunch50 are software companies.

[Protophore → zain]

Is that by design or just by random chance?

[zain → Protophore]

Perhaps it is because it is more likely for a hardware company to be able to afford the $18500 fee for DEMO, while software companies are generally poorer and might chose to go the cheaper TC50 route.