THE ONE ABOUT DEMO 2023đ€©đ€©đ€© (& SOME OTHER STUFF TOO, I GUESS)
TroyLabs is a student run organization sponsored by the USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
How was your weekend? (If you said âGood',â our response: "Happy to hear it, your week will be even better if you come to DEMO 2023!!â If you said, âBad,â our response: âAw, your week will be even better if you come to DEMO 2023!!ââŠmoral of the story come to DEMO 2023 to make your week EVEN BETTER)
Nevertheless, itâs Monday, the start of a new week. In your honor, hereâs a little poem to brighten your Monday morning:
The sun is sunning
The wind is winding
TroyLabs is TroyLabsing
DEMO 2023 is DEMO 2023ing. (đ)
See what I did there? Come to DEMO 2023.
DEMO 2023 is THIS WEDNESDAY (FROM 11 AM TO 8 PMâŠyes, 9 hours, but you can come and go as you please!!) sponsored by the USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, AWS, and APSY! Come to USCâs largest student-organized entrepreneurship conference at the USC RONALD TUTOR CAMPUS CENTER BALLROOM (RTCC BALLROOM)! Need more convincing? Well, weâve got some!
ITâS DEMO!âš ITâS 2023!đïž ITâS DEMO 2023!đ„¶
DEMO 2023: Entrepreneurship Conference is right around the cornerâŠliterallyâŠand the corner is WEDNESDAY!! DEMO 2023 will have NETWORKING & INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (every Marshall studentâs dreamâŠjk jkâŠ..not really). DEMO 2023 is FREE TO ATTEND and there will be FREE FOOD, FREE MERCHâŠthatâs the perfect free trio, if you ask me.
Every year, we bring in the top 50 startups to showcase their startups at DEMO. Along with hosting the largest student-run startup exhibition, we're honored to feature amazing guest speakers! Recent Keynote Speakers include Sean Rad (Founder and former CEO of Tinder), Janice Bryant Howroyd (Founder and CEO of The ActOne Group), and Palmer Luckey (Founder of Oculus VR). Take a look at the companies coming to DEMO 2023:
This yearâs Keynote Speaker is Jared Grusd, whose professional resume speaks for itself (Former CEO of HuffPost, Current CSO at Chime, Former CSO at Snapchat & AOL, Former General Counsel at Spotify, Former Senior Executive at Verizon, AND SO MUCH MOREâŠCHECK OUT FOR YOURSELF!!)
One of DEMO 2023âs workshops this year includes a Consumer Insights Workshop with Omair Akhtar, current Manager of Consumer insights at NETFLIX (ya knowâŠjust a humble little up-and-coming streaming serviceâŠđ đ) HAPPENING IN TCC 227 FROM 2 PM TO 3:30 PM. DEMAND FOR THIS EVENT IS VERY HIGH, SO MAKE SURE TO RSVP TO DEMO 2023 AND COME EARLY, AS SEATING IS ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE BASIS!!
OhâŠand we havenât even mentioned our judging panelâŠWELL, HERE THEY ARE:
And last but ABSOLUTELY not leastâŠMAKE SURE TO RSVP FOR FREE STELLAR PIZZA COUPONS!!! (ya⊠we got that TLđ x Stellarđ collab)
EVERYONE is welcome to attend DEMO 2023 so we canât wait to see you there!
If you're interested in attending, you MUST reserve your ticket through our DEMO 2023 RSVP EVENTBRITE
All updates for the event will be posted through our Instagram (@troy.labs) and our website (troylabs.vc), so be sure to stay tuned!
Hereâs another RSVP link for good measureâŠđźâđšđźâđš
OH & BTW WEâVE LAUNCHED đ
Last week we had the excitement of LAUNCHING our SPRING 2023 BUILD COHORT!!!
Hereâs a little reminder of the amazingly exciting companies we worked with this semester:
Spotlight compares price points for sports & concert tickets on a chrome extension
4085 Productions is a student-run production company elevating the voices of all artists
Flex Together provides virtual respiratory rehab for the 37M lung disease patients in America
Legacy organizes, stores, and preserves everything that makes you, you
Scraps allows artists and producers to monetize their unreleased music
đšHOW IT WENTđš
Hereâs the inside scoop on everything that happened at LAUNCH (ya know, incase you missed it đ đ)!
FIRST PLACE WINNER: SPOTLIGHTđïž
After almost five pitches, our judges awarded the $1,500 prize to Spotlight! CONGRATULATIONS TO SPOTLIGHT!
AUDIENCE FAVORITE: SCRAPS đ”
Our audience of over 100 aspiring entrepreneurs voted Scraps as their favorite up-and-coming startup, awarding $500 to the company! CONGRATULATIONS TO SCRAPS!
Weâre happy to announce our panel of judges marked their decision as one of the hardest theyâve ever made because all of our companies in this cohort weâre so incredibly unique and are guaranteed success in their respective markets. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL COMPANIES IN THE TROYLABS BUILD SPRING 2023 COHORT ON OFFICIALLY LAUNCHING!! (weâre so so so so so SO PROUD)
SPICY TAKE OF THE WEEK đ«Ł
This weekâs take is from ME (yes, you heard that right, the very person writing this)
DEMO 2023 is going to be the best event of the year held on USCâs campus.
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GET THAT BAG đž
Looking for an internship? We got you covered! Come to DEMO 2023 for potential internships and job opportunities! DEMO 2023 is a massive networking event featuring leading heads in the business world from some of the most recognizably successful companies in the worldâŠso, uh, yeahâŠYOU SHOULD COME!
