Comments on: TechCrunch50 Submission Deadline Is Tomorrow; Mark Cuban, Marc Benioff and Don Dodge Join Expert Panel

By: rich

rich — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:18:17 +0000

haha I dont think there were very many auzzies there -_- rich @ Sports Basketball

By: John Wiseman

John Wiseman — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:39:07 +0000

Looking forward to attending!

Any idea on how many entries were submitted last year?

By: Kevin Garber

Kevin Garber — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:14:11 +0000

And oh, I wonder if we are the only Aussie applicants …

By: Kevin Garber

Kevin Garber — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:13:32 +0000

We have submitted our application. Boy have we been working hard on a bunch of awesome features.

We really do believe our app is going to blow your judges away …

Kevin

By: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing : TechCrunch 50 Conference panel of experts

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing : TechCrunch 50 Conference panel of experts — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:59:19 +0000

[...] and Jason Calacanis asked me again this year to participate on the TechCrunch 50 panel of experts. TechCrunch announced yesterday that Mark Cuban, Marc Benioff, and I will be on the panel. I am humbled…and honored [...]

By: Darren Lee

Darren Lee — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:29:16 +0000

Definitely looking forward for TechCrunch50!

Last year was a blast and I am sure this year will be twice the action and twice the fun! Hehe

I was just thinking if the TC50 team has built enough excitement for the event. It seems like it deserves more coverage/mention and here are my suggestions:

- Create a simple JavaScript event countdown (e.g. 23 days, 9 hours left)

- Create a “heat map” for Web 2.0 categories being selected/focused this year (e.g. more red on Social Network if more SN are selected — more blue on Social Bookmarking if there is just a few) .. this will get people more engaged and talking about what’s going to happen

- Create an online contest for TechCrunch readers – give some hope to those who can’t afford to go for the event – they can always join the contest and win a FREE ticket! This could be a “TC gives Back” campaign.

Hope it helps and keep up the brilliant work!

Best regards,

Darren Lee
http://www.adexcel.com

By: Vassil Mladjov

Vassil Mladjov — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:37:49 +0000

Almost done with the info for submission. Transcoding the video to smaller size guys

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:25:07 +0000

Thanks Heather. I will be submitting an application shortly.

By: Heather Harde

Heather Harde — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:09:41 +0000

Joel: New product launches are eligible (you don’t have to be a new company.) For example, last year AdBrite launched Spottt at the conference. New feature sets will be considered but it will have to be really substantial innovation to take one of the 50 slots.

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:53:02 +0000

Hey Mike, what about features of our site, is that eligible, or is it just entirely new companies?

I am working on, what I believe is some pretty interesting new features of Twitturly.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:35:27 +0000

Congrats! Looks like a great panel. Sadly the timing isn’t right for us to enter.

By: Random Person

Random Person — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:33:52 +0000

“The internet company Yahoo brought Broadcast.com with Cuban earning himself just over 5 billion worth of Yahoo stock.”

Mike,

Yahoo bought the company for $5billion; it did not net Cuban $5billion.

He was always worth around $1-2billion.

Just saying, Random Person

By: TSW

TSW — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:23:48 +0000

Mark Cuban is no tech prognosticator, he is merely lucky, with impeccable timing.

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:19:13 +0000

Is Mark Cuban going to show this year?

Or will he be too busy dancing with the stars?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:29:12 +0000

This is interesting, I’m looking forward to this event! I hope that by the time it rolls around Cuban owns the Cubs!

I wonder who else you are going to pull out of the bag as Judges?

By: RYK

RYK — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:26:40 +0000

interesting to see these guys from the enterprise domain. Is TC50 expected to be more about enterprise 2.0 that before ?

By: Brian L

Brian L — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:25:09 +0000

Mark Cuban is a bartender that hoodwinked Yahoo into hopping on his money train.

I think the real value of having him available at this event is for useless services like Twitter to take notes and find out how they can also become acquisition targets with no business plan or revenue sources in place.

After all, who wouldn’t want to know when you are in the bathroom relieving yourself? Now all your fellow tech nerd subscribers can know in real time…

By: Adam Smith

Adam Smith — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:25:03 +0000

Venturebeat broke the Powerset Story!! Why not techcrunch? You guys are falling behind!!!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:13:12 +0000

Thats great news. I like the way that this years TC50 is using alot more expert firepower. Mark Cuban can be a bit of an idiot though but Marc and Don are good.