| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.05.2014 | First Opinion Raises $1.4M To Update Its Text-A-Doctor App | First Opinion has raised $1.4 million in new funding from True Ventures and returning investor Felicis Ventures. This brings the total raised by the text-a-doctor service to $2.6 million. Prior backers include Greylock, Yuri Milner, and 500... |
| 04.07.2013 | TechCrunch Balkans Steams Through Belgrade And Zagreb, Ljubljana Is Next | We have one more stop on the long road from Sofia to Ljubljana and each city has been better than the last. In Belgrade we met some exciting startups including the winner, Pubsonic, the winner that night, and Warrant.ly. In Zagreb we met Si... |
| 02.07.2013 | TechCrunch Balkans Is Off To A Roaring Start | Last night in Sofia, Bulgaria was a blast. It was TechCrunch’s first Balkans mini-meetup and we had six great startups pitch to win a spot in Disrupt Berlin’s startup alley. Last night Farmhopping took the gold while Sensika came in second ... |
| 28.06.2013 | See You Next Week! Details On The Balkans Meetups | I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana next week for a series of informal meet-ups. If you’re in those cities, I want you to attend. Here are the details.
Sofia (1.7) – The Roof by eleven – 8PM to 11PM
Belgrade (2.... |
| 23.06.2013 | Reminder: Let’s Rock Out In The Balkans | Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July fo... |
| 18.06.2013 | Reminder: TechCrunch Is Hitting The Balkans In Less Than A Month | Dobro jutro, zdravo, and pozdravi, friends! In an effort to spread the good word about TC to the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July for a series of informal meet-ups. If... |
| 12.06.2013 | Reminder: Sign Up For The Balkans Mini Pitch-Off | Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July fo... |
| 29.05.2013 | TechCrunch In The Balkans | Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July fo... |
| 11.04.2013 | Lanyrd Monetizes By Charging Companies To Track Conference Speaker Activity | With the relative decline of Plancast and Upcoming, the Lanyrd startup has solidly stepped in to the breach, aggregating content around speakers, attendees, venues, books, video and anything to do with conferences. It’s also benefitted from... |
| 12.02.2013 | Final Reminder: Tonight Is The TC Pitch-Off/Meetup And We Want To See You There, New York | The TechCrunch NY Meetup is tomorrow evening, so get ready for a wild night of pitch-offs, pizza and beer.
While we’re accustomed to throwing a solid meetup, we’re introducing a new ingredient into the mix in the form of a 60-second pitch-o... |
| 11.02.2013 | The TC New York Meetup + Disrupt Pitch-Off Is Tomorrow So RSVP Now | The TechCrunch NY Meetup is tomorrow evening, so get ready for a wild night of pitch-offs, pizza and beer.
While we’re accustomed to throwing a solid meetup, we’re introducing a new ingredient into the mix in the form of a 60-second pitchof... |
| 10.02.2013 | Reminder: The Disrupt NY Pitch-Off/Meetup Is On Tuesday | It’s been a few months since our last NYC meet-up and, in an effort to find some of the best startups in New York for Disrupt this year, we’re planning a 60-second pitch-off competition. The winner will get free tickets and a spot in Startu... |
| 07.02.2013 | Reminder: The New York Disrupt Pitch-Off Is Next Week And We Need You (And Sponsors) | It’s been a few months since our last NYC meet-up and, in an effort to find some of the best startups in New York for Disrupt this year, we’re planning a 60-second pitch-off competition. The winner will get free tickets and a spot in Startu... |
| 06.02.2013 | Join Us For Our First TechCrunch Pitch-Off Party On February 12 In New York | Young (kind of), NY-based TechCrunch team seeking approximately 800 tech-enthused attendees for the next TechCrunch meetup, where entrepreneurs will participate in a 60-second pitch-off competition, vying for a spot in our Disrupt NY confer... |
| 06.02.2013 | At 500 Startups’ 5th Demo Day, 32 Startups Make Their Dave McClure-Endorsed Debut | It’s demo day time once again for 500 Startups, the early stage venture capital fund and startup accelerator headed up by Silicon Valley’s favorite foul-mouthed investor, techie, and man about town Dave McClure.
We’re here in a packed room ... |
| 06.02.2013 | Here Are 10 Standout Companies From The Fifth 500 Startups Demo Day | Early-stage VC fund 500 Startups today held the first of several demo day events for the fifth batch of startups graduating from its accelerator program. It was a fun event, with 32 high-energy founders pitching their companies to a room fu... |
| 12.11.2012 | UpTo social calendar app quietly debuts on Android | Detroit-based social calendar app startup UpTo quietly launched in Google Play, slipping slightly under the public radar onto the Android Platform.
The application was designed to pull information from user calendars and present it in a way... |
| 09.10.2012 | Flavorpill GEL Is An Event-Planning Service That Lets You Rally Your Friends To Fun | Humans, like the bonobos monkey or the blesmol, are social animals and, as such, they enjoy occasionally gathering for festive activities, such as sexually variant group mating, tunnel debris removal, and Matmos concerts. Now these three sp... |
| 04.10.2012 | Taskbox Seeks to Makeover Your Email Inbox | Technology entrepreneur Andrew Eye cofounded Taskbox to save time and increase productivity by turning an email inbox into a task list.
Six days ago, the startup launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $30,000 to hire more engineers and ex... |
| 17.09.2012 | Reminder: The Taipei Mini-Meetup Is On At 8pm At OnTap Bar | Just a quick reminder that the Taipei Mini-Meetup is Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at about 8pm at OnTap Taipei, which is located at No 21, Alley 11, Lane 216, Zhongxiao East Road. I’ll be there – just look for the sweating American guy – as... |
| 16.09.2012 | More Details On The Taipei Mini-Meetup | As you may have noticed last week that I planned an impromptu mini-meetup in Taipei. We’ve decided on a location – OnTap Taipei – on Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at about 8pm.
To RSVP pop over to Plancast or email me at john@beta.techcrunch... |
| 13.09.2012 | Taiwan: How About A Taipei Mini-Meetup? | I’m going to be heading over to Taipei next week and I’d love to connect with entrepreneurs, programmers, nerds, hackers, fun people, and/or sourpusses. To that end, I’d like to propose a small meet-up, very informal on Tuesday, September 1... |
| 15.08.2012 | Pepper Rises: Active Networks Relaunches Plancast With A New Design | Plancast, a TC alumni startup that limped along in the deadpool for a few years, has just relaunched under new ownership. ActiveNetwork paid an undisclosed sum last spring and spent the summer updating the site. Co-founders Jay Marcyes and ... |
| 17.07.2012 | 500 Startups Demo Day: Meet The 27 Newest Dave McClure-Approved Startups | We’re here at Microsoft’s Mountain View, California offices waiting for the kickoff of 500 Startups’ Summer 2012 Demo Day. Today, the fourth batch of startups to pass through the famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator program will show of... |
| 11.07.2012 | Reminder: We’re In #TCCharlotte Tonight And Waiting To Hear Your Pitch | Hello, Charlotte! The TCMobile is now back in your beautiful city and we’re ready to hang out tonight at Packard Place. We had a great night in Durham and we’re ready for more NC.
You can RSVP here and we would love to chat with you tonight... |
| 10.07.2012 | #TCDurham: See You Tonight At Bay 7 (Updated Location) | We are headed towards Durham right now in the TCMobile but we have some very urgent news: the event will be held down the street from Tyler’s at the American Tobacco Event Space called Bay 7. Bay 7 is two doors down from Tyler’s.
You can RS... |
| 09.07.2012 | Reminder: #TCATL Is Kicking Off At 6pm Tonight | We’re live in Hotlanta tonight from 6pm to 10pm at Sweetwater Brewery. We have over a thousand RSVPs and we want you guys to beat NYC in terms of turn-out and energy, so head over here to RSVP and bring your best elevator pitch.
What can yo... |
| 06.07.2012 | Remember: See Us In Savannah, Georgia Tonight At 6pm | Here we go: tomorrow we’re heading to the offices of Creative Coast, 15 West York Street for our first ever Savannah meet-up. We’re excited to see what Savannah has to offer. You can RSVP here.
Special thanks to The Creative Coast for hosti... |
| 05.07.2012 | Southern Start-Ups: Tomorrow We’re Coming To Savannah! | Here we go: tomorrow we’re heading to the offices of Creative Coast, 15 West York Street for our first ever Savannah meet-up. We expect a few hundred folks to roll out and we’ll have some excellent food sent over by Erwoods.com and MyApply.... |
| 28.06.2012 | Raising a seed round? Apply to the Founder Showcase by Friday 6/29 | This sponsored is produced by The Founder Showcase.
Are you an early-stage startup looking for funding or exposure? Then apply to the Founder Showcase, Silicon Valley’s leading seed-stage pitch competition. This competition is 100% free: pr... |
| 28.06.2012 | Raising a seed round? Apply to the Founder Showcase by Friday 6/29 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This sponsored is produced by The Founder Showcas... |
| 26.06.2012 | Wanted: Charlotte Sponsors For The TC Southeast Mini Meetup Tour | The TC Southeast Mini Meetup Tour is mere weeks away, and we’re in the final stages of preparation. This is set to be our biggest meetup tour yet, hitting five cities over the course of a week, and with that comes quite a bit of planning. T... |
| 21.06.2012 | Get Ready For The TC Southeast Mini Meetup Tour: July 6 – July 12 | Hot on the heels of the TechCrunch Philadelphia Mini Meetup, I can’t help but look forward to what’s next: a full-scale tour of the Southeast. We’re hitting Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and Greenville, in that order between... |
| 19.06.2012 | TC Mini-Meet Up: We’ll See You At 6pm In The Field House In Downtown Philadelphia | After a late start we arrived in Philly and talked to a number of cool folks at Office Hours. Now it’s time to party.
Josh Zelman, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, and myself will be at the Field House at 6pm and we’re ready to talk startups, t... |
| 18.06.2012 | Don’t Forget: TechCrunch Is In Philadelphia Tomorrow | Tomorrow we’re invading Philly for an evening of networking, fun, and bacchanalian pleasure. Are you coming?
Josh Zelman, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, and myself will be rolling into Philadelphia on Tuesday morning and we’re ready to talk s... |
| 15.06.2012 | CityControllers releases WatchDog App for Android, claims National Award of Excellence [LINKS] | Controller iPhone app wins prize [Daily News] From a press release announcing the release of the app for Android: “The National Association of Government Communicators recently honored the Controller’s Office with an Award of Excellence for... |
| 15.06.2012 | Uber Wants To Drive You To The Philly Mini Meet-Up | Next Tuesday we’re invading Philly for an evening of networking, fun, and bacchanalian pleasure. Are you coming?
Josh Zelman, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, and myself will be rolling into Philadelphia on Tuesday morning and we’re ready to ta... |
| 13.06.2012 | TechCrunch Is Holding Office Hours On Our Southeast Meetup Tour: Reserve Your Spot Now | We’re less than a month away from our Southeast Meetup Tour, where we’ll hit Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and Greenville. It’s sure to be a mess of fun and a total mess all at the same time, just as it should be. We’ll toss... |
| 11.06.2012 | Just A Friendly Reminder Of Our Brotherly Love: TC Is Hitting Philadelphia On June 19 | It’s always sunny in Philadelphia, but even so, the sun should shine a bit brighter once TC heads to town. John Biggs, Chris Velazco and I are more-than excited to be visiting the city of brotherly love on a quest to find the hidden gems of... |
| 08.06.2012 | Get Ready For The TC Mini-Meetup In Philadelphia On June 19 | Everything is in readiness for our upcoming Philly meet-up where we’ll imbibe fine beverages, eat some DiNics, and talk about what you’re working on. The goal of this meet-up is networking and pitches so come prepared with a thirty second p... |
| 06.06.2012 | The Southeast TC Meetup Tour Is On Like Donkey Kong (But With Comfort Food Instead Of Bananas) | And we’re off.
The Southeast meetup tour is officially a go. We’ll be hitting up Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh, Charlotte and Greenville on a quest to uncover hidden technological gems that may or may not get pitched with a southern drawl. I’m... |
| 30.05.2012 | Southeast Meetup Reminders: Savannah, Raleigh, And Charlotte Are Set, Atlanta Not Iffy [UPDATE!] | If you’ve been keeping up at all, you should know that we’re planning a tour of the Southeast during the second week of July. We’re hitting all the hottest spots, including Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh, and Charlotte (in that order), but we s... |
| 28.05.2012 | Surprise! Announcing The TC Mini-Meet Up In Philadelphia On June 19 | If you’re in the City of Brotherly Love, you’re in a for a treat. Thanks to constant entreaties by one of your own, Anthony Coombs, we’re going to hold a mini-meet up in Philly on June 19 at the Field House, 1150 Filbert St.
Please RSVP her... |
| 25.05.2012 | Southeast, Here We Come: The Savannah, Atlanta, Charlotte, And Raleigh-Durham Meetups Are Go | TechCrunch is headed down south this summer and we’re starting our trip in Savannah, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Raleigh-Durham. We already have some great spots lined up but we definitely need your help finding a few more locations.
We begin b... |
| 15.05.2012 | Hey Y’all: TechCrunch Is Headed To Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh, And Charlotte – UPDATE | You’ve heard the stories, the rumors, and the speculation. Our recent string of TC Mini Meetups have been staggeringly successful, which is why we’re bringing the fun to some of the most badass cities in the country: Savannah, GA; Atlanta, ... |
| 08.05.2012 | Remember: The New York Mini Meet-Up Is Happening Tonight At 6pm | And we’re off: the TC New York Mini Meet-Up is on for tonight, May 8, from 6pm-10pm at Bar 13 on 13th St. and University Pl. It will be a Blastoise.
Special thanks to our volunteers and good old Jordan for spearheading the entire operation.... |
| 04.05.2012 | Meet Our TC NYC Meet-Up Volunteers | This is important, so listen up.
The people I’m about to describe are the most awesome of all the awesome people as they have volunteered to help out (free of charge) with our massive meet-up here in NYC next week. It’ll be amazing.
Let me ... |
| 01.05.2012 | Help! The TechCrunch Not-So-Mini NYC Meet-Up Needs Some Volunteers! | When John and I first chatted out the idea of an NYC-based TC meet-up, we expected around 500 attendees. Last week we hit the 700 mark, and today we’ve surpassed 1,000 RSVPs. Luckily, our fine sponsors have made sure that there’ll be enough... |
| 29.04.2012 | The TechCrunch Meet-Up In NYC Is Officially Official: RSVP Now | As the days pass, the big moment draws nigh. No, I’m not talking about Disrupt, which is a big moment in its own right, nor am I teasing any other big launch. I’m talking about a party.
A huge party.
We initially called it a mini meet-up — ... |
| 26.04.2012 | Pizza, After-Parties, And Start-Ups: The TC Mini Meet-Up In NYC Will Rock Your Socks! | May is going to be a busy month here in the city. Along with Disrupt and the continuation of our highly successful Office Hours sessions, we’re also hosting an ironically massive “Mini” Meet-Up in NYC on May 8.
Startups, investors, and gene... |
| 24.04.2012 | Pencil Us In: Details On TC’s NYC Mini Meet-Up And A Thanks To Our Sponsors | That was quick.
Sponsorship positions for the TechCrunch Mini Meet-Up in NYC are officially filled, and boy is this thing going to be awesome! If you aren’t already aware (and shame on you, if you aren’t), we’re having a little get-together... |
| 19.04.2012 | The TC NYC Mini-Meet Up Is Go! Here Are The Details | As we mentioned before, we were floating the idea of a mini meet up in our own back yard and we definitely got quite a bit of interest. So here we go: Get ready for the TC NYC Mini-Meet Up on May 8 at Bar13. We’ll run from 6pm until about 1... |
| 17.04.2012 | Who Wants To Come To The TechCrunch Mini Meet-Up In NYC? UPDATED TIME | So, I’ve just recuperated from our VA mini meet-up tour, during which John and I visited DC, Norfolk, and Richmond in an attempt to find startup gems in unexpected corners of the country. This time we’re bringing things a little bit closer ... |
| 17.04.2012 | 14 International events and a startup exchange for your calendar | The last post I wrote featured seven, which later became nine, South African events worth attending to grow your startup. If you have started building a product or platform that you deem worthy of international exposure, which I’m sure it i... |
| 17.04.2012 | 14 International events and a startup exchange for your calendar | The last post I wrote featured seven, which later became nine, South African events worth attending to grow your startup. If you have started building a product or platform that you deem worthy of international exposure, which I’m sure it i... |
| 11.04.2012 | TC Live From The Richmond Mini-Meet Up | Here we go: it’s the last night of our whirlwind Virginia tour and this time we’re in Richmond, home of the Fan District, Altria (everyone’s favorite tobacco company), and our friends at Snagajob. It looks like this town is just starting to... |
| 10.04.2012 | Live At The Norfolk Mini-Meet Up | The three pillars of Norfolk’s economy, according to local startup legend Marty Kaszubowski, have always been the military, shipping, and tourism. These three industries, fickle to begin with, are murder in a downturn. That’s why Norfolk is... |
| 09.04.2012 | Reminder: The TC DC Mini-Meetup Is Tonight | Just a reminder: today is the most important day of the year. It’s TC DC Mini Meet-up Night! We’re here in DC and we’re looking forward to meeting with you all at RFD (810 7th St NW) at 6pm for some networking, some fun, and some start-up t... |
| 09.04.2012 | This Is What Change Looks Like: Washington, D.C. Mini Meet-Up | It’d be easy to forget, but startups do exist, and even prosper, outside of Silicon Valley. John and I believe firmly in this, and have thus decided to venture forth and find technology gems hidden away in cities with less prominent tech sc... |
| 06.04.2012 | Virginia Is For TechCrunchers: DC, Norfolk, and Richmond, Here We Come | Just a reminder: starting April 9 TechCrunch will be hitting Virginia for a barnstorming tour of three cities – DC on Monday, Norfolk on Tuesday, and Richmond on Wednesday. You should have already RSVPed (did you?), you should have already ... |
| 04.04.2012 | Show Us What You Got, Virginia: Let’s Schedule A Quick Meeting Next Week | As you may well know, we’re having a series of three mini-meetups in DC, Norfolk, and Richmond next week. You’ve probably already RSVPed, but I’d like to spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings visiting some cool companies in the area... |
| 02.04.2012 | The First Of The TC Mini Meet-Ups: DC, Norfolk, and Richmond | Here we go! After a bit of back and forth, I’ve decided to run the TCVA mini-meetups in DC-Norfolk-Richmond order. We have some sponsors on tap and hopefully we can have a good time and get the word out about the VA tech corridor. Virginia,... |
| 19.03.2012 | Plancast Founder Mark Hendrickson Joins Obvious-Incubated Lift As Head Of Product | Last June, Biz Stone and Evan Williams teamed up with long-time collaborator (and early Twitter employee) Jason Goldman to dust off and re-start The Obvious Corporation — the very idea incubator that produced the micro-blogging service we k... |
| 07.03.2012 | How to Host a Minimum Viable Party at SXSW | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As an entrepreneurial VC, and founder of a financial services company, Duck9, I do and recommend things that disrupt. So I hold one opinion that runs very counter to Seth Levi... |
| 07.03.2012 | I’m Already Sick Of SXSW | We’re republishing this timeless classic, because it still stands pretty much as is a year later.
Believe it or not, I had this very same conversation about GroupMe versus Beluga as a preferred messaging app WITH THE SAME EXACT COLLEAGUE to... |
| 07.03.2012 | How To Find And Engage A-Listers Before SXSW | Editor’s note: Ben Lang is community manager at Wibiya and Conduit, which is hosting Conduit Corner at SXSW. Follow him on Twitter @benln.
Let’s face it, many of the big players in the tech scene are headed to SXSW this year. The question i... |
| 31.01.2012 | NewSpring is raising $200 million [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 22.01.2012 | The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast | Editor’s note: Mark Hendrickson is the founder and CEO of Plancast, a social site for planning events, which he has decided to stop working on full-time. In this guest post, Hendrickson takes us through a detailed analysis of why it never t... |
| 16.01.2012 | Uberlife – The Next Foursquare, But For Future Real-world Meetups? | I’ve been fascinated by social mobile location services since at least 2006 when, three years before Foursquare and year after Google acquired Dodgeball, a UK entrepreneur created BuddyPing, now sadly defunct, and right up to the launch of ... |
| 09.12.2011 | Rumors & Acquisitions: All TechCrunch Everything | What’s up this week with our big cousin TechCrunch, whose parent company AOL, editor Erick Schonfeld and media bachelor Jason Kincaid are all based in New York? Many things! Such as:
THE EMBARGO. Embargoes are a public relations innovation ... |
| 03.12.2011 | A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO | Very very quietly (there is almost no Google footprint), investment bank and securities firm Goldman Sachs held its “Private Internet Company Conference” this week in Las Vegas. During the two-day conference, which lasted from November 29-3... |
| 07.09.2011 | First Austin Startup Week kicks off | At WeStart, the first Austin Startup Week kicked off Tuesday evening at the Tiniest Bar in Texas. |
| 17.08.2011 | The Series A Squeeze | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Nick Ducoff, CEO and co-founder of Infochimps.
Series A financings are on the decline. They peaked at 283 in 2007 and are on pace to barely crack 100[1] this year (all data is from CrunchBase th... |
| 07.07.2011 | Sōsh Makes Social Actually Social By Giving You Things To Do In Your City | Back in March, as we reported on Offline Labs‘ initial funding, we also offered up a quick glimpse of their first project, codenamed Project Dragōn. Now the project, actually called Sōsh, is ready to be fully be revealed.
The basic idea beh... |
| 30.06.2011 | True Ventures Looks for Magic in the Crowd of Portfolio CEOs, Not Its Partners’ Brains | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
How do you run a venture capital fund with $378 million under management with just four full-time partners? San Francisco-based True Ventures, a six-year-old early stage inves... |
| 17.05.2011 | Keep Track of Future Plans and Friends’ Activities With WhereBerry | As location-based social networks have become more popular, we’ve grown fairly comfortable with checking in places and letting friends know where we are or where we’ve been. Some of those services also allow users to leave reviews and recom... |
| 07.04.2011 | Two Days in Silicon Valley: An inside look at 23 startups from Dave McClure’s Demo Days | I’ve been thinking a lot about passion lately — passion for ideas, teams, the shared pursuit of common goals. More and more, I believe passion is the critical differentiator between really good, and great, teams. And, at the end of the day,... |
| 15.03.2011 | 2-Part Series from SXSW: 5 Interviews About the Rise of APIs | Here is the first of a two-part series about the rise of APIs at SXSW this year. It consists of five interviews: Oren Michels of Mashery, Mike Maney of Alcatel-Lucent, John Musser of Programmable Web, Sam Ramji of Apigee and Matt Galligan, ... |
| 13.03.2011 | Join Us For The TechCrunch/TUAW Reader Meet-Up At SXSW Sponsored By Peel | It’s that time again: time to revel in Web 2.0! We’re teaming up with TUAW and Peel for our first annual SXSW Interactive reader meet-up in Austin. Meet the TC crew. Have a TC brew. Enjoy some TC chew (quantities limited). All this – and mo... |
| 10.03.2011 | Apple Opening Pop-Up Store In Austin For SXSW | Apple is setting up a pop-up store at West Sixth Street and Congress, a few blocks from SXSW proper, in order to abate the fears of the hordes of hipsters who will arrive in the city this week and find themselves far from the comforts of th... |
| 07.03.2011 | I’m Already Sick Of SXSW | I had a conversation today with a colleague to discuss our SXSW Interactive strategy. My coworker figured, rightfully, that SXSW would be a shitshow and that maybe we should use one of the much talked about group texting apps to stay in tou... |
| 28.02.2011 | Eventist: Not another social events calendar | Evan Couch looks to Craigslist for inspiration in building a better online events calendar
As much as we’d like to think that the Internet is done, that all the most important Web services have been created, that it’s only iteration and imp... |
| 22.02.2011 | A visitor's guide to Silicon Valley | Behind-the-scenes tour spotlights region's entrepreneurial spirit
If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/d... |
| 15.02.2011 | Hackdays | We spent quite a bit of time yesterday in USV's regular monday meeting talking about hackdays. I had attended Music Hack Day at General Assembly on Sunday and was inspired by all the amazing hacks (72 in all) that I saw there.
These 72 hack... |
| 14.02.2011 | How to Find Your Most Important Fans | Word of mouth is an incredibly powerful marketing tool, but how do you work out which customers are most important in spreading your message? Services like PeerIndex or Klout help you find experts and influencers in particular communities, ... |
| 10.02.2011 | Bay Area Coworking Spaces: The Xconomy Guide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Building a company is hard enough—there’s no need to do it in lonely isolation.
That’s the realization hitting a growing number of tech entrepreneurs seeking desks at the cowo... |
| 08.02.2011 | Echo Launches “Real-Time As A Service” [Live Video] | Khris Loux and his company, Echo, have always had a tentative relationship with the lowly blog comment. Echo launched in 2009, described as a “blog commenting platform” much like Disqus. Right from the beginning, however, Echo went beyond t... |
| 08.02.2011 | With A Site Revamp, Plancast Invites Social Event Discovery To The Party | At launch, all startups need a direction. At the same time, those most open to tweaking that direction as a service grows often have a better chance at finding a path to success. Some may call this a “pivot”, but sometimes it’s less of a ch... |
| 08.02.2011 | Can’t Miss Events for Social Media Week San Francisco | How big is social media these days? Big enough to get its own week. This week is Social Media Week, if you hadn’t heard, and its taking place in nine cities across the globe. It’s a week-long extravaganza of free (or cheap) talks, roundtabl... |
| 31.01.2011 | Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With YC-Funded Conference Directory Lanyrd | In the same events planning space as Plancast and Upcoming, Y Combinator-funded Lanyrd launches today after this weekend’s game changing news of Yuri Milner and SV Angel’s 150K investment in every Y Combinator startup. An IMDB for conferenc... |
| 29.01.2011 | Meetup feels the wrath of the crowd after radical changes | Meetup, a long time go-to place to create local online groups, has undergone a major re-launch in the past day. However, it may have missed a trick: not consulting the meetup organizers who pay through the nose for the service. There now ap... |
| 01.01.2011 | Best of 2010 Tech, Year In Review | This year has been loaded with innovations both online and off. Many of these innovations were made by the companies we would expect, like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. But there were also some fresh faces that pushed us to new heights. As ... |
| 15.12.2010 | Facebook Friends Recommend Movies, Music, Food & Now T.V. with Clicker | Television shows, music, movies, good places to eat – these are all things that the typical five star review may be okay for, but it’s really the personal recommendation from someone whose opinion you trust that matters the most. If everyon... |
| 27.11.2010 | Find Activity-Friends In Your Area With Sponduu | If you often roll “Han Solo” to the coffee shop, ballgame or to the bars but are interested in finding other people who live near you to hang out with, you might want to check out Sponduu. Sponduu is a new and unique service that enables pe... |
| 28.10.2010 | Excerpt from “Do More Faster” – Avoid Co-Founder Conflict by Dharmesh Shah | Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the new book by David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group. Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumn... |
| 14.10.2010 | Fyesta launches as a European Plancast, aims to tap the "intention web" | Starting with the simple question “What are you doing next?“, the newly launched Fyesta.com, developed by Germany’s Blue Oceans Labs, lets users share their upcoming travel and event plans with select friends or to make them even more publi... |
| 13.10.2010 | Excerpt From “Do More Faster” by David Cohen and Brad Feld | Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup, the new book by David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group, came out this week, and the authors are in the middle of a fast-pace... |
| 27.09.2010 | CalendarGod mashes-up calendars with location | CalendarGod, part of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley this week, is a new take – incredible as it sounds – on the concept of the calendar. Instead of trying to integrate random calendars as many other startups have tried in the past (bu... |
| 27.09.2010 | TechCrunch Europe meetup in San Francisco, this Wednesday night | It’s clear there are plenty of Europeans in Silicon Valley already but plenty more are in town for TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco this week.
Here at TechCrunch Europe we though it appropriate to hold a little networking meetup/party in do... |
| 23.09.2010 | Eventbrite Makes Events More Social By Meshing Deeper With Facebook | Online ticketing startup Eventbrite is amping up the social features of its service by creating deeper hooks with Facebook. When you purchase a ticket through Eventbrite (like you can for Disrupt, for instance), you can already share that p... |
