Finally getting to reposting my TechCrunch article here...
"Qik Founder’s Story: Taking Mobile Video Out Of The Garage And Putting It Into The Hands Of Skype"
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Thursday, July 29, 2010
TechCrunch Social Currency CrunchUp
9:00 – 9:45 am
The Social Currency Investment Thesis
Michael Arrington speaks with Ron Conway and Paul Graham
9:45 – 10:15 am
Social Savings: Building the Next Billion Dollar Business
Erick Schonfeld speaks with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason
10:15 – 10:30 am
Couponing 101: What Tech Should Understand About Brands, Retailer and Consumer Promotions
Heather Harde speaks with News America Marketing Group Sales Manager Ginny Byrnes
10:45 – 10:50 am
New Product Demo: Blekko by Founder and CEO Rich Skrenta
10:50 – 11:30 am
Check Ins, Coupons and Commerce
Tristan Walker, director of business development, Foursquare
Kara Nortman, Senior Vice President, Publishing, CityGrid Media
Shiva Rajaraman, product manager, Twitter
Moderated by MG Siegler
(full schedule)
Thursday, September 11, 2008
TechCrunch50... My Favorites
The TechCrunch50 was a great conference. Great energy, people, and some very cool companies. Yammer took the top prize at the conference, but there was a lot of displeasure in the choice and some dirty rumors that are floating around.
I don't care for the noise right now. I will say that Yammer isn't a symbol of innovation or great technology, but it does have potential to have a good exit. My favorites after the three days were...
Some more news...
"TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat" VentureBeat
"TC50: Iamnews Emerges From The DemoPit To Win People’s Choice" TechCrunch
"TechCrunch50 swag bag: Room for improvement" Webware
I don't care for the noise right now. I will say that Yammer isn't a symbol of innovation or great technology, but it does have potential to have a good exit. My favorites after the three days were...
Some more news...
"TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat" VentureBeat
"TC50: Iamnews Emerges From The DemoPit To Win People’s Choice" TechCrunch
"TechCrunch50 swag bag: Room for improvement" Webware
Monday, September 8, 2008
@TechCrunch50
Just arrived at the TechCrunch50 conference. You can watch live streams here when it starts here.
They also announced the TechCrunch50 Finalists this morning here.
They also announced the TechCrunch50 Finalists this morning here.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
TechCrunch 50, Open Web Asia '08, Web 2.0 Summit
Fall is a time for some pretty good conferences. Here are the ones that I will be attending...
Michael Arrington, Jason Calacanis, and their team have created a great event. Definitely will be hot. Looking forward to it. September 8-11, 2008.
The first truly pan-Asia web technology event, where I'm a co-organizer and have to plug it again:) It's our first year, so I can't say it will be money or hot but definitely smoking.
I didn't go last year, but just registered last week to attend John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly's premier event. Should be insightful and fun. November 5-7, 2008.
Arrington got Ashton Kutcher to plug his conference. Pretty amusing clip.
Michael Arrington, Jason Calacanis, and their team have created a great event. Definitely will be hot. Looking forward to it. September 8-11, 2008.
The first truly pan-Asia web technology event, where I'm a co-organizer and have to plug it again:) It's our first year, so I can't say it will be money or hot but definitely smoking.
I didn't go last year, but just registered last week to attend John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly's premier event. Should be insightful and fun. November 5-7, 2008.
Arrington got Ashton Kutcher to plug his conference. Pretty amusing clip.
Friday, July 25, 2008
MobileBeat, Mobile Web Wars, TechCrunch Party
Thursday I attended VentureBeat's MobileBeat 2008 and was pleasantly surprised. The event was well done. Matt Marshall, Tim Chang, and others did great at moderating. Good energy, the panels were informative, and the crowd was good. Some random facts to note:
- Total U.S. subscribers in Q1 of 2008 was 255 million.
- 198 million text messengers.
- 123 million multimedia SMSers.
- 95 million Internet users through mobile.
U.S. market has a 16% penetration rate of mobile users using the Internet. 95 million subscribers pay for mobile Internet access.
4% of mobile internet users have iPhones, but they access the Internet 5x the average.
- PC Home users 120 million
- Mobile users 40 million
- Mobile Lift: 14% (outside the overlap of PC Home users & Mobile)
- Unduplicated audience is 137 million
VentureBeat's review, "Thanks for coming to MobileBeat 2008"
Friday I went to meeting after meeting and then attended TechCrunch's Mobile Web Wars. It was an entertaining panel, but a bit chaotic since there were 19 panelists. Arrington and David Rivas from Nokia were going at it early on, which was amusing and prompted me to Twitter about it (rare occasion that I tweet on live events).
Anyway, I went to the TechCrunch August Capital party afterwards. I couldn't go last year due to being knee deep in my startup, but went the year before. It is good being out and about again after being in a cave for a couple years. This whole year has been good since I've been finally putting together real people with faces on various social networks or email correspondence.
- Total U.S. subscribers in Q1 of 2008 was 255 million.
- 198 million text messengers.
- 123 million multimedia SMSers.
- 95 million Internet users through mobile.
U.S. market has a 16% penetration rate of mobile users using the Internet. 95 million subscribers pay for mobile Internet access.
4% of mobile internet users have iPhones, but they access the Internet 5x the average.
- PC Home users 120 million
- Mobile users 40 million
- Mobile Lift: 14% (outside the overlap of PC Home users & Mobile)
- Unduplicated audience is 137 million
VentureBeat's review, "Thanks for coming to MobileBeat 2008"
Friday I went to meeting after meeting and then attended TechCrunch's Mobile Web Wars. It was an entertaining panel, but a bit chaotic since there were 19 panelists. Arrington and David Rivas from Nokia were going at it early on, which was amusing and prompted me to Twitter about it (rare occasion that I tweet on live events).
Anyway, I went to the TechCrunch August Capital party afterwards. I couldn't go last year due to being knee deep in my startup, but went the year before. It is good being out and about again after being in a cave for a couple years. This whole year has been good since I've been finally putting together real people with faces on various social networks or email correspondence.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
CrunchBase... Great Directory of the Startup World
It's been a few months since I last visited CrunchBase, but it's turning out to be a very comprehensive directory of tech startups and their investors. I don't know when they changed their homepage, but I like it and how they position themselves.
The only other attempt I've come across is StartupSearch, and it just doesn't measure up to TechCrunch's CrunchBase. If you go to the VCs pages, they have great overviews of their investments (i.e. total amount, participants). Check it out.
The only other attempt I've come across is StartupSearch, and it just doesn't measure up to TechCrunch's CrunchBase. If you go to the VCs pages, they have great overviews of their investments (i.e. total amount, participants). Check it out.
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