TC20 -> 40 Announcements were weeks late. Delayed 3, 4 and 5 times…

Crunchies were days late.

This seems to have been forgotten…

Michael, Business Tip: Under Promise and Over Deliver

Or at least in these 3 instances above, don’t give a time, say: “We’ll let you know, sometime.”

http://www.meetingflex.com [ Social Networking + Video Search]
http://www.jhatak.com [ Internet Web Meeting]
http://www.jhat...lerHomePage.htm [ Tabbed Browser]

I wish all the best to all. One of these days..I expect to buy the tickets to the event.

Raj
Founder
http://www.jhat...lerHomePage.htm

Once a VC asked me , what experience you have for a startup.

My answer:

A startup is like a marriage…the less experience you have before hand the better.

Thanks for offering these (5), it’s quite an offer.
Why I would benefit?
I’m passionate about this topic. I can learn from this really solid group/panel. My business is catering to these growth companies and I want to learn how I can provide more value to the young startups.

What I would offer?
I’m a very established business enabler/consultant, working for a top tier systems integrator/supplier to startups and fast-growth companies. Some members on this panel are customers of my firm and I have created deals for bootstrapped companies that would make you proud. I can share what these companies are missing out on from their suppliers and how they can gain greater efficiencies by slightly shifting their thinking about how to negotiate in the marketplace. The fact of the matter is that planting many seeds pays off for us in the long run, so mutually beneficial relationships are good business.

Thanks for considering me for this.

dan

thanks for your time.

I’d really appreciate the chance to hear these impressive panelists speak. And if you pick me, you’ll be getting a clean tech perspective, plus helping us make traction on an offering that improves the lives of the poor. How can you beat that?

I’ll be in from Shanghai with unique perspectives of bootstrapping, seed funding and outsourcing in China for international markets and for US market. Would love to join in the conversation.

Being based outside of a Startup Hub, it’d be great to come up and hear what others are doing and get a shot of inspiration.

Thanks!
.jonah

I can bring a unique perspective as someone who is successfully bootstrapping a biotech startup. Not web. Biotech.

“The country which first recognizes its responsibilities to the start up will receive the recognition of the world as being the foremost civilized nation.”

………with apologies to S.W. Newmayer

Whilst the extraordinary net value creation of worthwhile start – ups (…and the definition of “worthwhile” is of course a separate discussion in and of itself) is well documented. Society has yet to find the motivation to rearrange its resources, to mitigate, the considerable, un-necessary risk, currently evident in the process.

If we in the valley, and other similar communities, can evolve the process further, to a point at which, we can seriously show, that venturing is scalable, then we can have that conversation.

From that starting point we could see a volume of venturing deriving such benefit, that in time it becomes a mainstay of economic and societal progression. Perhaps then we may see societal development measured, in part, by start- up mortality rates, just as they are today, with infant mortality rates?

However to achieve this we need to better understand the problems in order, to design the solutions and of course both steps require sufficient iterations of start-up activity data to get off the ground. So until this point, the situation is likely to remain unchanged. Thus all rests on the current ‘solution’ to get us there, the purest form of venturing, the bootstrap!

First of understanding that I need to stand out from the crowd and somehow get your attention from close to 100 comments already, allow me to post a little poem I wrote about TechCrunch:

Ok, here it goes, hopefully you’ll like it:

We began June eleventh two-thousand five
in order to help web consumer survive
We’ll continue to review and profile for you
the sites and products that you view.
The web is growing and there can’t be enough
So even when you eat launch go to TechCrunch.

Rely on us @ TechCrunch
to research and get the lowdown for you
We’re here to check tech stuff out
So that you’ll find things you’ve never heard about

Ok, now that I got your attention (hopefully let me briefly explain on why I would benefit from the event and hopefully have something to contribute.

I was the founder of a number of start-ups, most recently eNthem, HoldMyRecord.com and CrowdChess and two of these start-ups (eNthem and HoldMyRecord.com) were created with a goal of raising start-up capital for a bigger project because I did not have any money. I don’t have a lot of connections in the valley and thus don’t have easy access to VC’s and Angels there and so I always had to think outside the box, be creative and grow my business not depending on a thought of getting any outside funding. While working on those projects, I’ve learned a lot of great and valuable lessons as to what can and should be done when you are on a bootstrap budget, trying to start and grow your business. The fact is, there are a lot of great techniques freely available for you to use in order to spread the word out and grow your business, if you know them it makes your life as a bootstrapped start-up that much easier!

One advice I will give to all young and ambitious entrepreneurs out there is what Confucius once said: “The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step”.

I would also love to hear what guys like Craig Newmark, Gabe Rivera and you Michael have to say, as from what I know all three of you never raised any funding for your current operations (Craigslist, TechMeme and TechCrunch) and so it would be a tremendous opportunity from me to learn a lot of new stuff and soak as much info and knowledge as humanly possible.

Thank you for your consideration and hopefully I was able to flatter you with my little TechCrunch poem

Stan

heres a tip ” you cant be mike arrington no matter how much you love it “.

I have a full time job at a startup, working on a non-profit and working on a startup of my own. We are in the process of launching within 2-3 weeks and for now, the expense is manageable from our full time jobs. However, we plan to leave our jobs in around 3 months and would love to learn how we can go about bootstrapping our startup.

I want to attend because I’m CEO of a startup competing with MadeIt and I’d love to talk to Stephan Weir. I’m based in Chicago, but I’ll fly out to San Francisco if I get a ticket!

- Jared Radkiewicz

You’re an idiot.

Love,

John Galt

“Hmmm, sounds like more of an angel round to me.”

“You don’t need to raise money to get this off the ground. Prove out the concept and come back to us.”

“You can build this for less than $100k. Just boot strap this baby!”

Most venture investors have no idea what they’re talking about when they say stuff like this. They just don’t think their partners will be excited enough about the idea and they need more data to get their “courage” up.

I’ve left the venture world to launch my own company and I’m finding out just how hard it is to get something off the ground. I’ve been bootstrapping my startup for the last 6 months and its one of the most emotionally taxing things I’ve ever done. Much respect to all entrepreneurs out there.

And Michael, if you have a ticket for me I’ll be there.

This event would be great to get insights that will help us in our yuk yak sessions as we are all ignorant of starting a new company but have some great ideas.