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69 start-ups prepare for 6 minutes in spotlight

Six minutes is all that each of 69 start-ups get to impress journalists, venture capitalists and technology mavens. If speakers run over, the music starts, the organizer steps on stage and the microphone goes off.

At this week’s DEMOfall 2007 conference, companies will pay $18,500 apiece to show they have the answer to a vexing problem. Many offer to make it easier to cut through the Web’s proliferation of blogs and forums. Others offer advertisers the prospect of tracking down choice segments of such an amorphous audience.

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2007-09-24-demofall_N.htm

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