The August Capital Meet-Up takes place on Friday, July 25, 2008, in Menlo Park, California. This Meet-Up is one of our most popular events attended by startup founders, the venture community and dozens and dozens of members of the media (our press turn out this year is the most significant it has been for this event).
We continue to have tickets available for event sponsors. If you are interested in supporting the August Capital Meet-Up, please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde. If you are a member of the press wanting to cover the event, please contact Sarah Ross.
Since we have limited capacity for the August Capital Meet-Up, we are asking a $10 cover charge to help manage the attendee list and minimize no-shows. We will donate 100% of the ticket proceeds to Malaria No More, an inclusive, grassroots movement to control malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that kills more than one million people each year.
We, also, are giving away TWO tickets to the August Capital Meet-Up to the person leaves the best comment about why they should attend this year’s party. The TechCrunch interns will choose the winning entry over the next few days. Video comments are encouraged. Good Luck!!
Attendee identification will be checked at the door. Due to the strong demand for tickets, we regret tickets are not transferable and not refundable. If you use your name to purchase multiple tickets, your guests must arrive with you to check in at the door.
I’d like two tickets to represent blist and other fine Seattle startups in mingling with all you folks from the great companies in the bay area.
See you there.
You should give me the two tickets because I’ve literally been LIVING on the TechCrunch blog for the past month (seriously, check all the posts, I must have left 100 comments by now), WAITING for this post to hit so I can get a ticket, only to be greeted with a SOLD OUT notification EVERY SINGLE FREAKING TIME. This time, as you can see from the fact that I am the fifth to comment, I was there in literally under three minutes.
Why do I want to go so bad? How many opportunities do you have to go to one of Gatsby’s parties? It’s once in a lifetime.
Because I rock and I ask the evil questions sometimes – ha ha haaaa
You should give me a ticket so I can go and hand them my business plan for the PHPSocialize social networking script I am going to sell on hotscripts.com to upgrade all phpBB2-3 and vBulletin installs on the internet into social networks.
That’s why.
I wanted those tickets, but now I am really feeling for Graham Langdon, so I’m torn. He really sounds desperate.
Nah, screw him. Give ME the tickets and I will spread your fame through the Mommy blogger world. I’m going to BlogHer the week before, and I will laud you through the estrogen-filled hallways, singing your praises, schmoozing with the sponsors and basically extolling Techcrunch and You, Michael, as a bigger-than-life god striding head and shoulders above the throng of puny mortals who seek to steal your thunder. You will be inundated with offers for sponsorship and fixed up on dates with attractive, assertive, successful women who will cherish your very words as if they were pearls dripping from your gilded lips.
Because I want to support malaria no more and it would be a great opportunity for some networking to be done.
Because I spread good cheer to all, and will lead the singing. Plus I’m kind of cute.
Because,
I have been working hard the entire year
Because I read your blog every day.
Because Web 2.0 Rocks
Because I don’t be pain in the **** at the party or ask for publicity.
Thank you in advance.
Mike, if I buy the $10,000 techcrunch package, can I sell back the other 3 tickets. The other 2 people I’m working with don’t need to come plus I think 10k is excessive for a 5 foot table with an AC outlet for a couple days.
Can I buy the 10k package on paypal and sell the other 3 tickets back?
Can I sell the grab bag feature of that 10k package back as well on ebay?
I am registering at Long Beach city college today. I was accepted. Can I get a student discount on the 10k package as well if I fax in proof?
http://www.flic...544393/sizes/l/
I’m enrolling and paying tuition online today for full time.
How about a student discount on the 5 foot table? Like 3k plus you get the 3 extra tickets you can resell, and you are allowed to resell the grab bag spot to another company on ebay as well.
Can that work? Realistically?
Can you meet it half way or something?
You should give me 2 tickets because my blog is the most informative tech blog ever written…… besides techrunch of course…. http://www.goth...te.blogspot.com
Because I am an entrepreneur working on something I haven’t told
anyone but friends about. Because I have organized 2 reunions in the
last two years, so I feel your pain in organizing something like this. Because I am charming after two beers (*cough*). Just because.
Basically, what if you only need the 5 foot table and 1 ticket, and you are a student, and can prove that you paid tuition and fax in a class schedule?
Is there an option for that? Can you make one?
It would be an honor to have these 2 tickets. After many ventures endured: Record Label, Artist, Retail space, ScrewBookPrices, KissThem, LettucePrint, Pazap, I can’t help but still be optimistic that I can offer something to people that will help enrich their lives. I have a new venture coming, and of course, I, like every entrepreneur believe this one is it.
Stocks have been grim, the people around me tell me to stop and get a job, but I still continue – because something in my heart tells me I must do it, because maybe it will help people. And in helping with these two tickets, it gives me the opportunity to add to the table of our internet revolution, and increase the chances to prove that dreams come true, if you do.
Because I know a way to prevent malaria… You see, the problem is always that people cannot get out of the way of their own misconceptions.
http://www.yout...h?v=LQ64sV0nSVU
If you give me the tickets, I’ll invite Scarlett Johansson as my date.
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This is the way to eliminate Malaria.
http://www.yout...h?v=aSYla0y9Wcs
If you don’t give me tickets, I will show up on Arrington’s doorstep with a six-pack of German beer and a box of Krispy Kreme donuts early on a Sunday morning and try to pitch him on my harebrained startup idea.
Two tickets this way because, if you do, you’ll be the first ever (outside of the dev team) to preview the cool iPhone 3G app we’re building called SHODEO – Hollywood meets iPhone 3G.
Yeah – this sucks! I’ve been trying to get tickets every day too! What the hey!! – I was on a conf call with one of our developers!!!
I was of course referring to TC50
http://tc50exhi...eventbrite.com/
“*The Exhibitor Package is targeted to early-stage product companies, and the conference passes and demonstration space package is for use by a single company. ”
If 3 people want a ticket at the current price minus 20%, I can hire you for exactly 4 days at my company, after the conference I will fire you.
If I can get all 3 people, then I will purchase a kiosk. 10k is excessive though, so the discount will make it fair. You don’t have to help me or do anything. Contact me at my website.
I don’t really need the tickets. I’m going to be in China then doing biz dev with a bunch of Chinese social networks and media sharing sites. Ha!
Anyone else find Peter Urban really annoying?
An August-party in July? You got me confused and I suspect a huge cultural gap here. Where I come from parties in July are July-parties, so even if I was given tickets I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t make it over there even though I live in Menlo Park… or is it Palo Alto?
So if you give me the tickets, you can most likely sell the open no-show slots later on to the desperate guy threatening you with German beer in a previous comment, a dude that obviously doesn’t know anything about beer because if he did he would threaten you with American beer. Given that, he will probably drink too much and pitch his harebrained idea anyway.
And who wouldn’t want to see a beer-ignorant fellow loaded on Bud Lights crashing Arringtons semi August-party in July “thanks to” a confused illegal entrepreneur getting prepped for the party at a totally different day?
Two complete idiots… one drunk and one no-show… and all the VCs thinking about investing in a product that filters and marks Tech-blog-comments not based on explicit lyrics and words about nudity, but based on illogical outbursts of uncontrolled verbal creativity that could seriously damage the trust-worthiness of the whole industry, giving all those “traditional-media” lobbyists more arguments when trying to convince the government that Blogs feed the lust of blog-commentators, who are a constantly growing group of lost well educated citizens not contributing to any core industries like meat, crop or infrastructure and who should be forced away from their desktops.
But, at the end of the day. Who needs an October-fest right now anyway?
I do.
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I would love two tickets so I can take myself to California, meet and greet and learn more, network so I can be one step closer to getting Fan History some venture capital and help us grow. As I’m doing this in fandom, the knowledge I learn I can attribute back to TechCrunch and then teach others in the community how to do the same thing.
lol ok… give the tickets to 26
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You should Give us two tickets for OBVIOUS reasons.
Study that photo closely,…. doesn’t it seem just a little imbalanced?!
We promise not to mesmerize or entrance your attendees
I will give you 5% of the carry from any companies I source at your party.
Ok, here’s something no one else can offer, and yes, I’m serious.
Give me the tickets and I will bring Miracle Berries for Mike and a few of his pals. Don’t know what Miracle Berries are?
http://iht.nyti...el/28flavor.php
They are small, safe, legal berries from West Africa. You chew them for about a minute, and it alters your taste buds for an hour. Lemons and limes taste like jolly ranchers. Guiness beer tastes like a milk shake.
If you want to give an UNFORGETTABLE experience to a few people, give me the tickets. I’ll bring the berries. The rest will be history.
You can’t order the berries yourself because there is a 2-month waiting list for all US suppliers.
Here is a suggestion: Given how popular this event has become, you should make this an annual event, hold it in the month of August, and call it “August Crunch”!
My 2 (cents) tickets worth!
there’s gonna be unlimited beer there, right? i’m pretty funny when i’m drunk.
Because,
I LOVE TC.
I wish you all the best on June 10th of every Year.
Cheers, Nag
Every time you release the tickets i am either working on a Production issue or some P1 ticket. I know even if you release the tickets later down i can never get it.
So hoping to hear from you and get to see Mike..
Those two tickets will look excellent in the pocket of my brand-new designer t-shirt that has a dragon embroidered on it or in the back pocket of my crisply ironed, paper denim designer jeans.
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Because summering in the Hamptons gets soooo boring.
I think I should get the tickets because wherever I go talking about my web site http://www.ShoppingNotes.com, people are just like “Wowow! You got to be kidding. How did you do that?!”
life is like a box of sausages…
I have solved the 2 problems in the mobile space and I’d like to share it with you and your readers.
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I would make good use of the tickets. I’ll bring special hootch.
Here’s my video pitch.
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haha, she said silicone
I’ve been hiding under a rock for the past year due to working for a slavedriver.
Unfortunately, I have been one of the unsuccessful ones of receiving the “event sold out” message on eventbrite.
I would love to be the recipient of the two tickets to the TechCrunch August Capital MeetUp and represent the totally under-represented “Gen Y”, techo-geek female perspective, as well as improve the infamous Silicon Valley ratio. It’d would also be a great opportunity to be able to “let my hair down” so-to-speak and actually meet and engage with the people I follow on twitter as well as read about on TechCrunch.
@ Chris Lunt
Your scotch is wayyyyy tooo old
.
And btw nothing compares to a fresh cup of (single malt) tim hortons.
I am a student from germany and writing a thesis about Silicon Valley startup innovation. This conf will give me info to connect the dots in my paper. I don’t have $ to attend. Free beer is always good!.