I’m proud to announce that Ning’s Marc Andreessen, Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha and Google’s Marissa Mayer will join us on September 8 - 10 in San Francisco for the TechCrunch50 conference Panel of Experts. The experts will judge the fifty startups launching at the event, and then discuss each of the demos on stage as a group.
More details on the conference are here. TechCrunch50 is a three day conference where fifty new startups will launch over three days. There will also be a number of topical panels and workshops. The event will be held at the San Francisco Design Center, a huge and beautiful venue that can accommodate over 1,000 attendees with ease.
There will be 24 experts in all, more will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for the event can be purchased here (early bird pricing is available until July 15). The submission process to launch your startup is here.
More on the TechCrunch50 blog.
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Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is the co-founder of Ning, the create-your-own social network platform company that has raised over $100 million in funding. He also serves on the board of Open Media Network. Marc is best known as a co-founder and chief technical mind behind Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely- used web browser. |
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Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital focused on services and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY) and worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries), has a BS in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer is VP, Search Products & User Experience at Google. She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to 100+ languages and launching numerous features and products. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. Before Google, she worked at UBS research lab (Ubilab) and SRI International. Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek (“10 Tech Leaders of the Future”), Red Herring (“15 Women to Watch”), Business 2.0, BusinessWeek and Fortune. |
Thank you to our early corporate sponsors: Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures and Fenwick & West all returned quickly to support us for the second year in a row. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo reached out as well, and we’re very grateful for their new commitment to our merit-based conference format.
Looks like a great lineup.
What about MC Hammer?
nice to see google ms and yahoo
ROFL! #2!!!
Nice addition. Can’t wait to hear who else you have lined up.
Where do people apply to present?
You know, the submit part for startups doesn’t work if you are using Minefield. It asks that you download Firefox! As if Minefield wasn’t the newest version of Firefox in the first place…
@AnonTroll Its HAMMER TIME!!!
@brian2 I’ve heard of many stories of creative pitches… but hitting on a VC? That’s a new low.. but in case it works, Roelof, you have my vote as well. For what its worth, i think you are 2x hotter than what brian2 thinks you are.
/ip scrammbler off
Moggy!!!!
Did all the presenter get funded last year?
With that lineup, who will you cast as Ryan Seacrest?
@Steven Roussey
Thank you for your feedback. At this time, app2you only actively supports final releases of mainstream browsers. Minefield, unfortunately, is a “testing” release. As it says on Minefield’s website (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/), “This is NOT A FINAL OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION. This program is provided without any guarantees of stability, so please use it at your own risk.”. Therefore, Minefield is not supported at this time. If you have any additional comments, questions, or concerns, please feel free to contact support@app2you.com
Thanks,
The app2you Team
TC40 was a great time! Hope to make this one too!
Good start, looks like it’s going to be an interesting panel.
Sounds like the place to be…
Any guidance for start-ups with intellectual property? There’s a major part of our project that we’re not able to talk about without a confidentiality agreement… patent pending and all that.
Hmm… not sure about completing an application form… ‘we have a great idea. No really, it’s just fantastic, but you’ll have to take our word for it’. etc.
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I wonder if anyone else is getting an entrepreneurial stiffie just thinking about all the startup horsepower that’s going to be raking the startups over the coals at TechCrunch50?!