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i’m first posting here, isnt that the best reason ever? sent the ticket over!
Does this offer include a ride over on Arringtons private jet? If not, let me know, because I’ll have to start swimming by tomorrow at the latest.
I would love to win this but only if I get the air fare and accommodations with it. LOL
Because we love TechCrunch!
http://www.paidcontentisback.c.....arrington/
Because i would love to see that place, share knowledge and learn new things which will be a lifetime chance for me as i won’t see any chance in near future to visit or had in past.
Can you pay for my flights too… whats a ticket worth from Indo?
I would love to go to the conferece and pick up some good cheese for my pregnant wife.
It is pretty simple why I need this ticket. A colleague of mine and me we are working together in an online ad agency as social media guys. My colleague got one ticket for free cause he hung around with the right blogger guys to get one. I haven’t. I would have to go to my boss, to ask for 1K to get a ticket at well. See the problem? Here we go. This is my reason.
Parce que LeWeb est à Paris et que nous avons besoin de français aussi pour représenter l’ouverture du web sur le monde. Parce que Techcrunch a besoin de continuer à se faire connaître partout dans le monde pour sa qualité éditoriale. Parce que je suis le premier français à réagir à cette offre. Parce que j’ai envie de venir depuis le 1er jour.
I almost forgot: MERCI à Techcrunch de me donner la chance d’être avec vous !
Parce que, parce que, parce que…. Just give it to schapi, he is trying to kiss some serious ass here.
I would love to go to Le Web and set up a guerilla DJ+Breakdance Battle
If you know us … you’d know that it would probably happen if we were there.
http://blog.soundcloud.com/200.....at-sime07/
Because I’m a young French would-be entrepreneur, and I dream of working in the Valley next year, for some start-up, before creating my own business…
I’d love to go to LeWeb and meet people that can help me with this project…
Thanks a lot !
My cute 2nd-degree cousin and my fun ex-girlfriend are both staying in Paris right now. Going to LeWeb would be a great excuse to go hang out with them, besides it’s without a doubt the most interesting tech event I’ve ever heard of.
I co-organized a tech conference in Germany myself. We had great speakers but it was much smaller, so I’d really like to see how the pros are doing it… Oh yeah, I’m also a poor student and my former employers from amiando are coming too. Well, that’s all the reasons I can give you for now. If I can’t make it this year, see you in 2009!
Because in temps de downturn economical I have to go to Paris to see how l’amour for le web will give me a ride secure for deux mille neuf.
It´s amazing how no one gives a really good reason to go to LeWeb but just excuses to go to Paris. LeWeb is the best place to get the big picture of the european startup scene, a great place to be in touch with the brightest people on the business from both US and EU markets, a great chance to meet other enterpreneurs, learn from their experiences and showcase you own business. I could never afford a ticket from Argentina to Paris, but if I could, I wouldn´t miss the chance to get that free pass to LeWeb. So please, try harder!
update: I have the chance to get the plain ticket now, so I´m in for the LeWeb free ticket giveaway!
Going to LeWeb is a dream. Once my dream becomes true I could plan my plans and decide whether or not to stick or quit my starting up ideas !
Because I want to propose to my soon to be fiancée.
on stage
Would like to visit this smoking hot Hungarian exchange students that was over last year and to rub Loic’s head for luck.
I would like to have the ticket, because i really want to be part of the experience. But I just don’t have the money to buy a ticket for LeWeb. The company I work for would like to send me to LeWeb as well, but for them it’s a lot of money to.
If I don’t get it. To bad, but maybe I’ll see you at the Next Web in Holland.
If I go, it would be a great place to announce the launch of estatecreate.com exclusively with Techcrunch.
Because three weeks ago I gave up a great job to start my own company, just as all forms of monetary exchange came to a grinding halt. I’d like to use LeWeb to announce my new partnership program where application development services will be traded for livestock, fresh vegetables, and solar power.
Hello,
I am working for an Interactive Agency in Romania and I have never had the opportunity to attend a Web Conference abroad. I would like to be there to be able to make a comparison between the conferences from here and the ones from the western countries. I would also want to see how much Romanian market has to catch up. Thank you.
To learn from some great speakers and meet some interesting people I otherwise would never meet. Just like everyone else here, but in slightly fewer words.
I would like to go to LeWeb for a couple of different reasons.
Firstly, I manage the UK Web site for a large U.S. financial services company. Maybe that doesn’t sound so exciting to you. But I’m an American, living in London, managing a U.K. Web site for people in the U.K. Over the last 4.5 years, I’ve had to learn the nuances of operating in the U.K. as opposed to my old stomping ground. I think LeWeb is a great way to take this one step further (or, well, many steps further) in that this is a European conference; it would be great to get a more pan-European perspective.
Secondly, I’m a blogger. In my spare time, I run a popular blog about eating out in London. You can find it at http://www.londonelicious.com. I like the social media “LOVE” aspects of Le Web, and I think things like my blog are exactly the sort of thing we should be encouraging more of in the U.K. and in Europe. We need more European bloggers! (And Twitterers, of course.)
Thirdly and perhaps more importantly when it comes to LeWeb and TechCrunch, I’m a budding entrepreneur. I’ve just started working on a little idea of mine. It’s very early stages, but I think LeWeb could be that big turning point.
Lastly and without a doubt, I love TechChrunch! Read you guys all the time. Pick me, and maybe we can have dinner together when I’m in Paris.
Thanks!
Krista
P.S. When will you pick the winner? I really want to go and there are only 359 tickets left…don’t want to miss the boat!
I would love to go to LeWeb conference because:
#1: LeWeb brings together geeks from all over the world together and meeting and socializing with them would definitely enhance my Geeky side. Meeting people generates new ideas and creates new enthusiasm
#2: The event, as far as I know, would include delegates from Microsoft, Sun and all top companies of the world. It would also include some of the worlds greatest Net Celebrities. It would be the greatest moments of my life (till now)
#3: I am at the budding state of my career. The event would help me to make good contacts and thereby understand the possibilities of my current degree and would help me make wiser career decisions.
#4: Entrepreneur, that’s what I wish to become in the end. Meeting them is a big help.
#5: This is an evil reason. I am a blogger at millionclues.com. I would like to get some popularity for my blog through this event.
#6: I have never been abroad, so it would give me a good chance to go abroad. Paris, being the most photographed city would be ideal, since I am a photographer myself.
#7: I have some internet ideas. I don’t have the technical know-how to establish them. This event would let me share those ideas with an apt leader and learn from him.
#8: I would love to win this ticket because I have never won anything on the internet till now.
Thanks and Cheers.
Arun Basil Lal
thank you all for your interest in LeWeb and thanks TechCrunch {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/tUnMf3CmVl_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”thank you all for your interest in LeWeb and thanks TechCrunch ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/e1SlTNdpY5″}}}
Just because I had win a free ticket last year, and i can’t go there because it was the same day as one of my most important exam of the year… This year, i’m available!
Parce que j’adore Paris, j’adore Le Web et le technology, et j’adore techcrunch… En plus, j’dore la vie…
Because I’m a poor, recent MBA grad who spent a fortune to go to INSEAD and is now struggling to create a 2.0 startup in the current environment from his tiny overpriced flat in Paris..
Because I’m representing a super hot start-up from Europe which just has to be present at LeWeb.
Unfortunately, I have to pinch pennies (no VC) and can’t afford to go to LeWeb myself. Undoubtedly, it would help me enormously to connect with interesting people, to talk about their and our business and to promote our service at LeWeb.
I know, it’s just a no brainer … that ticket shall be mine
And see you at LeWeb’08 (to be an optimist helps in building a start-up as in getting a free ticket)
I have won the winning ticket.
We have created the future of social media - an alternative to these endless lists of comments, where everyone can interact using many kinds of media. Each topic or event is discussed in a dedicated mash media space.
Our product is the ideal companion to LeWeb conference about love! xxx
We submitted to TC50 but didn’t make it beyond the compliments from Jason Calacanis.
Would you be so kind as to award us the consolation prize and let us launch at LeWeb?
I would love to be at LeWeb because I’m lucky enough to be in Paris, France to visit friends that are living and studying there. LeWeb also begins on my birthday! Lastly and the real reasons that I work and teach in the field of “technology for social inclusion” and I work with groups around the globe to take advantage of new technologies and services to improve life.
Thanks for the consideration. - adam
Because Arrington doesn’t speak French… you need me there.
G.
If you are counting on a revolution in Paris, then you must send a revolutionary.
because I can give them a new topic to talk into which will eventually lead to an expanded horizon of information benefitting all those present..
So I think a Ticket can be bartered for new positive direction.
Sharing is awareness and awareness is happiness
….because I can give them a new topic to talk into which will eventually lead to an expanded horizon of information benefitting all those present..
So I think a Ticket can be bartered for new positive direction.
Sharing is awareness and awareness is happiness.
I’ve been working full time on a website project for over a year now, first start-up. While I can manage database, biz dev and SEO stuff, I’m getting stucked by finding my CTO/co founder — I’m no hacker…
Going to LeWeb will take me from isolation and hopefully make me find the One while networking.
What’s with all this ‘leave the best comment’ crap, who decides what is a good comment? Do we need to be funny, serious, pitch our startups? What’s the deal, I hate these things, we should be thinking about getting our businesses up and running and making money so we can afford to pay for a ticket rather than scrabbling around trying to second guess what is a good comment (judged by who?). I need this ticket as much as everyone else but come on guys are you even going to tell us what the ‘best comment’ was so we know what you are looking for next time you run one of these mindless tests?
@ Mike - Beggars can’t be choosers, so here goes:
The name we currently have for our concept that has yet to go into further validation pre-launch:
MIVUI
This stands for MyInfoMatrix Visual User Interface. A VUI to manage your information and networks. Matrix not only refers to Networks, but means to set a new mould, to raise the benchmark. We know we can only make a change one step at a time, and getting to LeWeb would enable us to start ‘turning our dreams into goals’. (Thanks to Permjot Walia for the thought inspiring quote). We are at critical stages of validating our internet concept. A hybrid concept that hopes to empower organisations or individuals through enabling easy control of creating or managing a rich advertising and collaboration experience.
There is an £8bn deficit on our NHS due to the lack of Activity in the UK. This figure and epidemic resonates throughout the West, and this is one of many related problems we hope to tackle, by boosting the presence of sports clubs beyond website design and development alone. Because our interface has evolved to become more widely applicable, we are starting with specific communities that currently value our solutions the most, and that will impact society or eachother the most. This value, we hope, will translate into sustainability and scalability. This can only now be validated by moving forward and asking the people what they want through comprehensive testing. We believe the talent and support at Le Web could be instrumental in that process. To have the opportunity to meet many of you that have inspired and educated us post graduation, (Giga Om, TechCrunch, Calacanis, Loic, too many to mention), would be sincerely appreciated and greatly valued. We have even left incubation and set up home offices to tie the straps as tight as possible.
I personally, have been evolving this concept since university, and dream of having a positive impact. I believe ongoing innovations in the internet community will unleash the power of the internet, and evolve it to a place which has devolved so much power back to the people, that it proves ‘we [truly] are the web’. Please send us a couple of tickets Loic? If someone else has already won, how about I promise to pay you back once I start earning a salary again? It’s in writing now, and in public. IOU: Mr Seesmic. Either way, have a great time at Le Web everyone. Your collective feedback on this rushed ramble would be most welcome either way. Anyone wanting to change to world, with realistic milestones, and that is technically oriented, is welcome to email us. Merci beaucoup.
End note, an ongoing inspiration for MIVUI:
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978).
Im from the old school slate pencil and slate. Now with all this techno stuff how does one keep up. I know fly an Aussie to Paris. C’MON MATE !
I will get on my bycicle in Amsterdam and will see you in Paris. Will take photo’s of interesting landmarks on the way over… Let’s not hope it will be cold and raining…but am sure it will!
I want to be there because my school is nearby the venue of the conference, and I want to pith a free professional made video commercial for one of the companies that will be present in this event.
I´m a filmmaker and I really wanna shoot this commercial for free because I believe in that company!