Today, we are releasing 100 additional tickets for the TechCrunch Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures. As previously reported, we are in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits music festival.
Get your tickets now, as we only expect to release one additional round of tickets prior to the event. We do have a handful of three day ACL passes, including backstage access and admission to the Austin Venture tent, to give away to sponsors and designated attendees.
Also, I will be hosting a Roundtable Discussion prior to the Pangaea Meet-Up, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. This will be similar in format to the Mobile Web Wars Roundtable I hosted in July—two dozen founders, CEOs, VCs, and execs in a room talking about an issue, live streamed over the Web. The theme of the Roundtable will be “The Web Starts at the Grassroots”. It will focus on how to use the Web to build grassroots support for startups, brands, politicians, and social causes. Look for a post from me later in the week with details on participants and access to tickets. If you are interested in joining as a participant, please reach out to me via email this week.
The TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up will be held at Pangea, 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. (or whenever they kick us out).
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 want to support 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.
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Erik, it might not be entirely relevant but if you’d like a good mobile perspective, consider reaching out to Ricky Cadden of http://www.symbian-guru.com. He’s in Austin.
Dang it, just a little too far to drive…will you do one in Portland, Seattle, or maybe Bend, Oregon? You never know, it could happen…
I just heard about this here and then its the top story – wow.
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I will get my tickets!
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Welcome back to Texas and looking forward to the event. See you there.
aaaaand now they’re gone.
bummer.
Dang, late again. Not funny.
Sooo close. Finally an event nearby (I’m in Dallas) and I cant seem to get any tickets.
Yes this sucks, I got the RSS notification, went immediately to the page and they’re gone. Erick, what does a man have to do to get these elusive tix? I have loose morals and lots of spare time
An opportunity to hang out with the gods of intellect and investing from AV – damn, why would anyone miss out on that. I think Tom Ball should give a speech SQL Server, CRMs and e-commerce, because he knows more than anyone on the planet. After all, he started a coupon site.
You are obviously a smart business person. What have you ever done? Why don’t you tell me who you are you dick so I can respond the right way to you. What in the world does SQL Server CRMs and e-commerce have to do with anything about this event?
I want some tickets please, I leave near Austin. Thanks.
oh I thought they were free hehe
I was *DEAD* set on driving from Tulsa & first 100 tickets are sold out. Bummer.
This is ridiculous. I was at lunch on Friday with 6 CEO’s from various Austin startups and none of us had tickets.
Yes we could probably harass Tom Ball to get tickets, but why should we have to when we’ve all posted comments on TC requesting notification of the next batch.
Whomever is responsible for this event is screwing it up. You’ve taken something that could generate good will for AV and created yet another “AV sucks” meme.
Entrep78703 (aka mr. whiner): Nice anonymous name. If AV got Techcrunch to come to Austin that is huge and I don’t understand how that creates “yet another AV sucks” meme. How can you blame ticket distribution on AV when they aren’t even in charge of this? I moved here from the Valley a year ago and have attended Techrunch parties out there before and this is how they release tickets for every event.
Come on – If you aren’t resourceful enough to get a ticket then you don’t deserve to go. I got my ticket for this no problem and I barely know anyone in Austin.
If this is TC’s silly way of doing it, then fine. I can’t imagine ticket wrangling is a good use of AV time/resources (I can tell you it’s not a good use of mine), but whatever. So in fairness to AV, the sucking-sound is from TC.
how self-important do you have to be to think TC should seek you out and hand you a ticket?
I agree… nobody should expect TC to seek them out and give them a ticket.
However, it seems like they could take the simple step of emailing folks who previously expressed an interest in tix but missed out on the first round, before opening up sales for the 2nd and 3rd batches. Even a few hours notice would be nice.
As it is, I’ve got the TC RSS feed hooked up to Twitter so I can get a text message on my phone when the next batch opens up.
But given how fast tickets have gone, I’m not hopeful that will do any good. So I’ll probably have to start knocking on some doors if/when that doesn’t pan out.
omg It is sold out already?!…
I am gonna try to love being on the waitlist (from Tip #5 in my gigaOm Blog post http://gigaom.c...wont-teach-you/