Later on today I’ll post my recap from yesterday’s conference. I will try to do some regular updates today, but all bets are off. The conference internet access was non-existant yesterday. According to Jason Calcanis they were up all night throwing together a makeshift LAN so perhaps today will be better. Here’s the list of today’s participants, I hope they’re a bit less frightening than some of yesterday’s startups.
TechCrunch50 Begins in San Francisco, Day Two Launch Schedule Released Session Themes Include Collaboration, Finance and Statistics, Mobile, and Language and Platform Tools TechCrunch50 Conference 2008 –(BUSINESS WIRE)–TechCrunch: 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 Tuesday, September 9, 2008 include: — Alfabetic (Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman) — DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi) — Emerginvest (Presented by Andrew Waterman and Eugene Kim) — ExchangeP (Presented by Saul Kato and Charles Katz) — FitBit (Presented by James Park and Eric Friedman) — icharts (Presented by Seymour Duncker and Tyron Montgomery) — Imindi (Presented by Adam Lindemann and Galen Kaufman) — me-trics (Presented by Christian Dodd and Jame Vreelan) — MIXTT (Presented by Eve Peters and Diana Agraz) — Mobclix (Presented by Sunil Verma and Krishna Subramanian) — Mytopia (Presented by Guy Ben-Artzi and Galia Ben-Artzi) — Popego (Presented by Santiago Siri and Emiliano Kargieman) — PostBox (Presented by Sherman Dickman and Scott MacGregor) — Swype (Presented by Mike McSherry and Cliff Kushler) — Tingz (Presented by Patrick Hunt and Richard Benson) — TonchiDot (Presented by Takahito Iguchi and Peter Anshin) — PERSONALRIA (Presented by Guy Hirsch) WHEN: Tuesday, September 9, 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 (email 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. Contacts TechCrunch Sarah Ross, 310-924-1404 sarah@techcrunch.com
