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TC50 v DEMO: The startups are the losers

Started by Duncan Riley · 10 months ago

As DEMOFall08 comes to a close today and TechCrunch 50 drags on for another day (it’s a 3 day event), over 100 startups will have appeared on stage in front of audiences in San Francisco and San Diego, hopefully opening new doors and delivering much needed exposure.
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  • Scobleizer

    10 months ago

    I agree and have passed that along, so have other people. That said, over the last year TechMeme has gone away from bloggers and individual people to being far more heavy in professional news outlets. If you compare Twitter and FriendFeed you'll see the startups got a LOT of coverage and discussion. TechMeme itself has changed and that's part of the results you are noticing.
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  • Scobleizer

    10 months ago

    Right now I see four stories from TC50 and one from Demo, too, on TechMeme, so not sure you're all that correct that startups aren't getting talked about even on the TechMemeosphere.
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  • CarlMaxx

    10 months ago

    A great post.
    This sums up what I imagine many people, including many of the start ups were hoping didnt happen in the lead up to these two events. Perhaps next year some in the social space might be a bit more social.
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  • Helen

    10 months ago

    DEMO's home page has links to over 200 news stories from around the Web about the companies launching at their show. Looks like pretty good coverage to me. http://www.demo.com
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  • dave

    10 months ago

    which products announced at TC or DEMO are worth investigating. if i only have time to investigate 3 or 4 which should i look at?
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  • elliottng

    10 months ago

    Well said, brother. Its interesting how the "herd mentality" causes startup people (like me) to want to be part of the club, even if the club is a total of 52 + 70 (Demo) + 200 (TC50 demo pit) = 322 startups trying to get everyone's attention. Chris Shipley is indeed a great person, thoughtful, inquisitive, and with an occasional cutting sense of humor. Sorry that she got checkmated by the Mike/Jason show, but maybe they just checkmated themselves too.
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