TechCrunch50 vs DEMO Fall
The TechCrunch50 conference was announced over on TechCrunch today. Similar to last year's TechCrunch40 conference a group of hopeful and doe eyed startups get a shot to demo their product to an influential crowd. The winner will also get $50,000 to add to their startup treasure chest. Not bad!Now the fun part, it seems the conference was scheduled during the same time as the long standing DEMO conference (of a similar format). This puts the two head to head for attendees and sponsorship revenue, Arrington even goes on to say "DEMO needs to die". Mike and Jason offer a cheap (free, actually) application fee while DEMO opts for the "hope there is room on the credit card" approach. Naturally both charge a huge attendee fee (2k for TC50 and 3K for DEMO) but in the conference world its all about making cash, and truck loads of it. In a prior life I used to do technical logistics for a few large conferences, in most cases one event supported an organization for an entire year.Best of luck to the startups out there, 50 large will buy a lot of pizza to complete your work.Update:Someone Should Explain the Rules of Highlander - What a Title! Mike you do seem to be on more of domination tour than usual. Can I interview you at TC50?Reality Crunch - Just finding this as well, I don't remember but apparently this is from last year. Totally creepy. They are twittersquating the TC50 twitter name already!
