Update: The first batch of tickets has sold out. We will add more in the coming weeks.
TechCrunch is heading South for a Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures. We are landing in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits music festival.
We’ll be holding a 500 person event on Thursday, similar in format to our other events around the world (see recent wrap up posts on Silicon Valley and Los Angeles events). As always, ticket proceeds will be donated to charity.
We have a handful of three day ACL passes to give away to sponsors and attendees, and will be announcing details of music festival give aways in the coming weeks. Register now to join us in Austin.
The TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up will be held at Pangaea, one of the hottest new venues in Austin. At Pangaea we will feature local start-ups and other sponsors, starting at 5:30 p.m. (central time) and running to 10:00 p.m.
We will also be holding a mini conference before the meetup - a roundtable discussion with Erick Schonfeld (details will be announced soon), just as we did at August Capital.
All of the proceeds from the TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up will benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation, an organization uniting people to fight cancer – believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything.
In addition to releasing tickets for the Austin Meet-Up, sponsorship opportunities and demo tables are now available for companies to show off their products. If you are interested in supporting the event, please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde. If you are a member of the press wanting to cover the event, please contact Sarah Ross.
Attendee identification will be checked at the door. 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.
We look forward to seeing you in Austin!!
When are you coming to New York. May, September and Early October is considered paradise here in terms of the perfect weather
About time TC comes down to Tejas. Just grabbed 2 - see you guys there!
Come to Atlanta! I have several start-up ceo’s and vc if you need panel speakers. Also we can video the entire Techcrunch Event and provide you with Techcrunch TV (custom interactive channel). Email me if you are interested.
I went to TechCrunch Boston last year. It is definitley worth it. I had fun and had a chance to catch up with many industry leaders including Arrington himself. Get your senior execs out of the office,they will thank you for it.
I’ll be in Austin for the ACL festival, but sadly won’t be arriving until Friday morning, so I’ll miss the TechCrunch party. Are there any other Austin tech scene festivities that weekend that I should know about?
think it’s a relevant gathering for someone in the online video world?
I just picked up a ticket. This will be my first techcrunch event I’m attending. Looking forward to it!
Will any more tickets be released? This post just a minute ago refreshed into my RSS feed and the registration page is already showing sold out. Think you guys could throw a bone to a long time reader and Austin tech blogger?
Wow, that was fast. There’s definitely some pent up demand for TechCrunch in Austin. Think you can find a way to do a 2nd event while you’re in town, or open up more tickets for this one? I’d love to attend.
No joke. I was trying to buy a ticket and it is sold out.
how is that a joke?
Anyways,
events are so fake - smile, meet, greet, etc
and if you try to email people afterwards, lol - good luck trying to get them to reply
Happy to help promote this event, but I don’t think you’ll need it since the first 200 tickets sold in 10 minutes.
I vote for a 2nd event too!! I went to lunch and just got back and saw this event is already sold out - reminds me of my youth camping out for tickets to see the Who.
I have extra 3-day ACL tickets - who has an extra ticket to the TechCrunch event? Email techcrunch-austin@joshshop.com
I wish I could Join You….
How can I get a ticket? I saw this news today when the tickets are sold out…
Just snagged a ticket. See you in September, Michael! Make sure to schedule a visit to Conjunctured, Austin’s coworking space!
You guys should come down to Miami, FL.
If I get a free ticket I’ll be there. Otherwise you know where to find me.
Arrington/TC, so excited y’all are heading this way!
it’s a good sign when tickets sellout that fast.
my question, and I’ve asked it on twitter as well, who is the contact at Austin Ventures that reads TC? Tom Ball?
My guess, this is Jeff Dachis’ (new EIR) doing - if so, I like the guy already.
I guess I just assumed they all had techcrunch set as their home page.
yeah.
i wish they did. then perhaps they’d be more interested in the consumer facing startups here. instead they invest in huge b2b deals — besides having a stage at ACL, until now, i’ve never felt their presence in the tech community (…make that the _progressive_ tech community)
check your moderated comments on this post — just sent you a bunch of links to austin consumer facing startups. my bet would be austin ventures has only heard of 3 of those
Gee JohnErik, if you had done any research on Mike A. or AV you might know that Mike used to work with Tom Ball and they are like best friends
you are correct, Bryan. i did not do any research — i was putting together other facts i knew. someone did ping me with that information right after i left the comment though. good information to know. thanks!
Wow..fast is right. What’s the secret password to get a bit of a head start on the next ticket release?
Thanks
just got a ticket.. must have opened it up again
No, it’s still showing sold out.
Hope there’s a decent post party after this unlike the party run by that pretty boy in Palo Alto (or did I mean pizza boy). What self repecting pizza boy hosts a party well into 3am with no pizza…
Little known fact, Pangaea is a also a secret credit project. It is just like the continents where they break apart, come together, and break apart again. http://ucms.com/pangaea
Wow! This really sold out quick. If anyone has an extra ticket I would like to attend.
Would like to attend also. It would be great if you could email commentors when new batches of tix are available.
I can’t believe it sold out so fast. Why don’t you make tickets alot more expensive so that people who really want to attend can get a chance.
-wael
Arrington, i would have gone had i not noticed that you have paired up with the ultra-arrogant local vc pricks, Austin Ventures. I can assure you very few local enteprenuers who have actually met these guys would go spend time to have a beer with them. Ive made pitches all over the country, by far the worst treatment (on many levels) came at the hands of my ‘local’ vc firm - AV. Have a beer for me!
Hey Dan - sounds like your pitches haven’t worked anywhere since it doesn’t look like you have raised any money - maybe it was tough love from your local firm! I’ve met those guys before and I think they are pretty decent guys - maybe your idea sucks.
sorry to dissapoint you guys, i have a 10m dollar company and pitched it when i was less than 4m. You would have had to have been there, i can understand your posts. But for you not to understand mine says you probably have a few too many starched button down shirts, so you can fit in with the vc clones. BTW, i know enteprenuers who have been funded by AV and even a former partner, and not a one has anything nice to say either. So fuck off.
gosh, based your comment Jim, i would have thought you had made some big impact on the world yourself, but a google search pretty much validated that there is yet to be a Jim Newlin who has made any kind of impact in the post google-indexed world.
Dan,
I don’t appreciate the profanity of you telling me to fuck off - I’d like to see you say that to my face. I have no reason to try to defend VC’s in general or Austin Ventures but it seems when I look at the companies they have invested in they all look interesting to me and they seem like good investors and it looks like a lot of their CEO’s are multiple time executives with them that must feel different than you or your friends. How bad could they be? If they are that bad how could they have been in business for 20 years? It does sound like you have a nice little business down there in Texas - I’ll give you that much.
On me making a big impact on the world, I don’t measure my impact on the world where I show up in Google — I think there is more to life than that Internet machine and the self promotion that you are so focused on. And for the record it looks like most of your own Google search results are as a result of your own press releases and the wikipedia article you obviously created yourself.
You shouldn’t be so angry all the time.
-Jim
@dan yeah man — gonna have to agree with Jim. the word on the street to me is not that they are mean guys, they just invest in huge/later stage deals and consequently show little love to the young/emerging tech scene here.
If you have some spare tickets to give away there are five of us girls here at decisiveflow.com in NZ who would love to come and add a little female touch
I went 10 seconds after you tweeted it and they were history. Hope to find a way to snag a ticket. Mike
Where do i purchase tickets from. From viewing this page i am guess they are currently sold out, but no link connecting to page with ticket purchase