Demo Day + Field Guide

Demo Day (Tuesday 11/17) is a public showcase: your team presents a working demo—never just a deck—plus a tight narrative arc across the semester: what we thought, what we did, what we learned, and what we’d do next with one more semester. Guests from the UGA and Athens entrepreneurial ecosystem will be invited; treat it like the real thing, because it is. Presentations are graded per the Demo Day rubric on eLC—clarity of the story, quality of the evidence behind your claims, and honesty about what didn’t work count for more than production polish.

The Field Guide is your individual capstone, due Tuesday 12/1 at 11:59pm to eLC. It’s the playbook you’ll actually carry out of this course: your best prompts and AI workflows (annotated—why do they work?), your judgments about which tools to reach for and when, and the five biggest lessons about entrepreneurship you’re taking with you, each connected to something you built, measured, or learned this semester. Format is wide open—document, site, deck, or video. Make the thing you’ll actually reuse; the best Field Guides tend to become the first artifact of your next venture.

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Source: Fall 2026 course syllabus — Demo Day + Field Guide, copied October 6, 2026.