The Dos and Don'ts of Giving a Demo

VentureBlog has some advice on giving demos in The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting at DEMO:

• It is all about the demo.
• Leave room for spontaneity (or at least appear like you have)
• Have fun
• Have a backup plan
• Don't praise your own product
• Don't use a tag line
• Don't say what you're looking for out of your DEMO
• Don't list your partners unless they are great (and probably even not then)
• Don't try to be funny if you aren't funny
• Don't sing

The article is directed to those who are presenting at the DEMO conference, but most of the advice seems generally useful for anybody who is demonstrating a technical product, be it to VCs or otherwise. (via Scobleizer)