Well, it’s over. TechCrunch 9 At August Capital last night was a blast, with 900 or so people demo’ing products, drinking wine and, if the video above is any indication, looking for the man of their dreams. To be fair, Julia Allison, one of the women above, is a regular correspondent on Fox and her friend Meghan Asha works at a hedge fund. They were just having fun for the camera with interviewer Sarah Meyers, who was legitimately on the guest list after last year’s crashing.
Due to your support for the meet-up, we were able to provide a $10,000 donation to Kipp Bayview Academy toward the purchase of new computer equipment for the school in southeast San Francisco. Ticket proceeds were $5,000 matched $5,000 by TechCrunch in honor of our meetup.
Photos of the event – and there were lots of them – are tagged TechCrunch9 or TechCrunchAugust2007. Mine are here. Photos from official photographer, Zenfolio, are here.
A big thank you to David Hornik and the team at August Capital for hosting our meet-up at their fabulous outdoor roof deck. We hope we can be invited back again next year.
Thank you most especially to our sponsors for making the party possible. Lots of additional coverage (send me your link and we’ll add it):
CenterNetworks
Jeremiah Owyang
Jessica Mah
Dean Takahashi
Adaptive Blue
Scott Beale
Sarah Meyers
Wishpot
Zoli Erdos
Mario Sundar
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Product Launch Sponsors:
DOmedia, Profile Builder and Real Time Matrix
Product Sponsors:
PeerMe, Droplet Technology, Jumpbox, Genius.com, coComment, LongJump, Wikiyou, Jaman, Kyte.tv, Zenfolio, Dial Directions, Ooma, Adaptive Blue, Wishpot, CollegeWikis, PerkettPR, Mashery, VelvetPuffin, AdBrite, and SideStep.
Event Sponsors:
Kiptronic, Azureus / Vuze, VisiblePath, Phonezoo, King.com, Pandora, Riviera Partners and Yapta.
Thank you also to Stormhoek for their generous supply of wine, Hugh MacLeod and Gaping Void for his special memento lithographs, Wallhogs for signage at the demonstration tables and EventBrite for our ticketing.
In addition to our official media sponsors, Kyte.tv and Zenfolio, thank you to Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Podtech and Sara Meyers for all their help.
Thanks for the link! It was a fantastic event – can’t wait for next year
LOL at orange head
“To be fair, Julia Allison, one of the women above, is a regular correspondent on Fox and her friend Meghan Asha works at a hedge fund. They were just having fun for the camera”
doubtful…women who have a high income don’t really slum..so it could be serious
I did notice many women who didn’t seem like they were in the tech business… were they wives of rich entrepreneurs/VCs, or just looking to date them? hahaha
I have to ask – why does Julia have a Donation button on her blog?
good thing they were kidding. they would have been disappointed.
just kidding.
@ jessica, i was there and am in tech.
Mike, Heather and crew – great party, as always. It was great to be a part of it and we appreciate your hard work. Jeanne was missed but hopefully we’ll see her next time – we definitely want to do it again and thank you for letting us be a part of this excellent event. What a great crowd – so much brilliance on one deck!
Great event Mike! Special thanks to Heather and Jeanne, as well as our PR team from Airfoil. Our launch tomorrow is going to be exciting! Thanks for the boost, and we’re looking forward to feedback on our product.
Boyan Josic
Profile Builder
Good times were had by all. I want to echo the thanks to Mike, Heather, and the rest of TC.
I wish there were party like those in south florida too…
thanks again for the invite (and the picture!) Michael, was a great party, see you on monday.
god…that video – what a media who7e
zomg… hot chicks at a tech party… you know, featuring it sorta shows that its that rare…
Oh crap, now there are tech groupies?? Time to start a web 2.0 company!!
Dude, I CAN’T BELIEVE you let that crappy video of web 2.0 groupies appear on your site. I thought you were about credible internet news and events? If you’re going to show girls on your site that are looking for some developer love, let them be super hot.
Thanks for hosting the party. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to stay that long and being from Sacramento, I was one of the few seem to be the one from the outside looking in. But, for the time I was there, there were some great products, some excited entrepreneurs that were ready to pitch their product at any and everyone that they can grab on to. Obviously August Capital is beautiful location as well. Thanks everyone.
- Steve
I take web 1.0 any day.
When I left my plans of attending medical school in 95 for co-founding my first dot.com I had idealistic ambitions that web will change the world for better. Serving as an equalizer and bridging the gap of influence between the haves and the have nots. Giving equal air time to small guy as much as the big guy. If last night’s party is any indication, I think the web 2.0 underlying culture has become more about the haves and the cliques. We are becoming more aware of who we are than what we are doing…If web 1.0 was modernism, web 2.0 is the postmodern child whose author’s self awareness has lead to a meretricious ersatz copy of the former at best.
CrunchGirls, Mike, u should start this web 2.0 company…all about girls dating tech GUYS???!!!!
hahahhaa..nice..
My brief take:
http://mattmaroon.com/?p=255
Mike / Heather – glad we could help sponsor the party. We had fun at the party, even though we came to the party a bit unprepared having signed up last minute and not realizing we were setup for a product demo station! It was a classic startup moment to say the least (explaining why our station was practically empty)…
If anyone told me there’d be hot chicks, i’d have been there too!
@ SM, agreed. Web 1.0 was a lot better.
worst. girls. ever.
sounds like they need to move to l.a. or something and be small fish in a big pond.
Mike,
she is repeating her address. Advertising or spamming ?
Mike, I know sex sells but this is bordering on shameless. I never thought I’d see the day where a web 2.0 party would be promoted in the same way as a party on Entourage. Mad props on throwing a good party.
Anyone say… “She take my money, when I’m in need…” =P
They were obviously joking, people. And they are funny. I like how the one girl rolls her eyes while the other one is talking.
I just re-watched the video…they never say they are looking for a rich guy. they say there are looking for a smart guy. the interviewer keeps saying rich but they never do.
@32…if the person is smart, and is at a techcrunch event…chances are they have the potential to be rich or are already rich…gold diggers all the way
It’s entertainment people!
I don’t understand. 800 people attended and the best clip to show is of 3 drunk women? And we wonder why there are so many issues in tech.
Next year will be even better.
Michael — seriously, please go back to the roots of TC. It was really useful and valuable when you guys stayed focused. Thanks.
aaaaaaaaaaah censorship at it’s finest. Thanks MA
Thanks for deleting my previous comments.
for women shes a clever one with a beauty charisma i think… event she is drunk
Not to quibble, since $10K for Kipp Bayview Academy is cool, but if 900 people were supposed to pay $10 each, why wasn’t ticket take $9K?
Sarah shot more “business-like” videos, too, at the Party, like the one where she covered all the presenting startups. Quick elevator pitches, 16 of them in two minutes.
I’m running a poll for the best and worst pitch… please watch the vid and vote here.
Sounds like it was a blast.
ha ha! I almost fell for it at first – very funny. for tech women, its always tough figuring out what to wear at these parties….too hot and you risk bimbo status.
I typed her misspelled name on the address bar and i was brought to a parking page! Hahaha! She must be quiet popular as a blogger.
Next year will be more better.
fgf rt
Sounds like it was a blast.
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