As an entrepreneur you feel like you might be too busy to attend conferences/demo days… Which is probably true. But you’ve got to make time for it. I attended a conference and demo yesterday (all in one day) and what it does is it allows you to lift up from the ground floor for a few hours. You get to taste bites of what others are thinking about…what others think is important in their own industries, their own businesses. And you get to consume this information in snackable, bit sized pieces. It’s perfect. It quenches the craving… allowing you to look at your own company with new freshness.
 
What I also love about conferences/demo days are the ideas and how you can apply them to your own business. Yesterday I was able to grab ideas from other startups, and think, “it’s a very different industry, but there’s something about the approach I love…let’s borrow that”. Often times the most insightful disruptive ideas can come from industries you think are nothing like your own.  What if we removed the counter interaction from car rentals, made having coffee about the experience and said you don’t have to pay a huge ticket price to fly… imagine the possibilities.