As you know, this blog is entitled DatacenterJunkie, not StartupJunkie. This week, however, I have the pleasure of having been invited to cover TechCrunch50 for NetworkWorld. So for the next three days, instead of Datacenters and ISPs, it’ll be Start-ups and Venture Capitalists. Look forward to liveblogging, snarky comments about start-ups, and interviews with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and homeless programmers on the streets of San Francisco who Will Code For Food! TechCrunch50’s early morning press release:
September 08, 2008 09:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time TechCrunch50 Begins in San Francisco, Day One Launch Schedule Released Session Themes Include Youth and Entertainment, Memes and News, Enterprise, and Advertising and Commerce TechCrunch50 Conference 2008 –(BUSINESS WIRE)– WHO: The TechCrunch50 conference provides a platform for early-stage, and frequently unfunded, companies to launch for the first time to the technology industry’s most influential venture capitalists, corporations, angel investors, fellow entrepreneurs and the international media. Companies are selected to participate exclusively on merit. WHAT: TechCrunch50 Finalists presenting on Monday, September 8, 2008 include: * Adgregate Markets (Presented by Henry Wong and Du Nguyen) * AdRocket (Presented by Scott Milener and Andreas Svensson) * Angstro (Presented by Rohit Khare and Salim Ismail) * BlahGirls (Presented by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg) * Burt (Presented by Gustav von Sydow and Gustav Martner) * Connective Logic (Presented by Stuart Smith and Jeremy Orme) * Devunity (Presented by Alon Carmel and Leeron Shalev) * DotSpots (Presented by Farhad Mohit and Matthew Mastracci) * FairSoftware (Presented by Alain Raynaud and Eileen Long) * Hangout Industries (Presented by Pano Anthos and Lucas Smolic) * LiveHit (Presented by Jeanine LeFlore) * OtherInBox (Presented by Joshua Baer and Mike Subelsky) * Quant the News (Presented by Brett Markinson and Ben Goertzel) * Rinen (Presented by Hirofumi Manganji and Go Hagiwara) * Shryk (Presented by Shane Kempton and Kim Stroh) * Tweegee (Presented by Shay Bloch and Adi Brandwine) * Yammer (Presented by David Sacks and Adam Pisoni) WHEN: Monday, September 8, 2008, 7:30 a.m. PT to 7:30 p.m. PT WHERE: San Francisco Design Center Concourse, San Francisco, California and on the Web at www.techcrunch.com and www.techcrunch50.com PRESS CONTACT: Sarah Ross, for TechCrunch, 310-924-1404, sarah@techcrunch.com EDITORS NOTE: Photography available for use at = http://www.flickr.com/photos/techcrunch50-2008/; Video available upon request (tyler@mahalo.com) About TechCrunch50 Founded in 2007 by leading technology blog TechCrunch and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, the TechCrunch50 conference provides a platform for early-stage, and frequently unfunded, companies to launch for the first time to the technology industry’s most influential venture capitalists, corporations, angel investors, fellow entrepreneurs and the international media. Companies are selected to participate exclusively on merit. TechCrunch50 is supported by corporate sponsors Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Salesforce, MSN Money, Symantec, Thomson Reuters and Yahoo!, as well as venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Founders Fund, Perkins Coie and Fenwick & West. TechCrunch, TechCrunch50 and the related logos are registered trademarks of Interserve, Inc.
