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TechCrunch 50 Equality

5 points by lakeeffect 18y ago

How does the crowd feel about Michael accepting applications to TechCrunch 50 from companies where he is a stake holder? Will he let it happen?

extantproject 18y ago
"tomorrow, on The Oprah Winfrey Show!"
- extantproject 18y ago
  Oops. Sorry about that. It's actually going to be on The View: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/wp-content/collage1.png http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/wp-content/collage1.png http://a.abc.com/media/daytime/theview/tyra_250x150.jpg http://a.abc.com/media/daytime/theview/tyra_250x150.jpg
dcurtis 18y ago
He will most likely duck out of the acceptance process for those companies, and let the other judges (calacanis, etc) make the decisions. There is still an obvious, ridiculous conflict of interest.
- lakeeffect 18y ago
  I sure hope so, this is could ruin him if he handles it wrong. I do know that a company in which he invests, probably has a good product. He's the expert on such things. Even if he takes himself out of the judging pool, the company already has his endorsement. So the next question would be why would he even want to have them in the contest. On one of the feeds he told a company founder to launch now rather than at TechCrunch 50 and he would cover the launch. So is it better to launch inside or outside of the big show. The reader seemed to think at the big show, replying we are going to add more features and apply for the conference. So based on the Crowd: He believes it is better for him to cover the launch of a company on his site. I think everyone else would rather have their run at the big show. .:Based on this he should cover the launch on his site as opposed to having them join the big show. First, He is happy because be believes he did the best for his investment. Second, the crowd seems to think TechCrunch 50 is more important, so we wouldn't feel any undue resentment. How he handles this will affect who seeks out TechCrunch 50 for their launch next year.
  - lakeeffect 18y ago
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/02/announcing-the-techcrunch50-conference-september-8-10-san-francisco/#comments http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/02/announcing-the-techcrun...]

5 points by lakeeffect 18y ago

How does the crowd feel about Michael accepting applications to TechCrunch 50 from companies where he is a stake holder? Will he let it happen?

extantproject 18y ago

"tomorrow, on The Oprah Winfrey Show!"

extantproject 18y ago
Oops. Sorry about that. It's actually going to be on The View: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/wp-content/collage1.png http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/wp-content/collage1.png http://a.abc.com/media/daytime/theview/tyra_250x150.jpg http://a.abc.com/media/daytime/theview/tyra_250x150.jpg

dcurtis 18y ago

He will most likely duck out of the acceptance process for those companies, and let the other judges (calacanis, etc) make the decisions. There is still an obvious, ridiculous conflict of interest.

lakeeffect 18y ago
I sure hope so, this is could ruin him if he handles it wrong. I do know that a company in which he invests, probably has a good product. He's the expert on such things. Even if he takes himself out of the judging pool, the company already has his endorsement. So the next question would be why would he even want to have them in the contest. On one of the feeds he told a company founder to launch now rather than at TechCrunch 50 and he would cover the launch. So is it better to launch inside or outside of the big show. The reader seemed to think at the big show, replying we are going to add more features and apply for the conference. So based on the Crowd: He believes it is better for him to cover the launch of a company on his site. I think everyone else would rather have their run at the big show. .:Based on this he should cover the launch on his site as opposed to having them join the big show. First, He is happy because be believes he did the best for his investment. Second, the crowd seems to think TechCrunch 50 is more important, so we wouldn't feel any undue resentment. How he handles this will affect who seeks out TechCrunch 50 for their launch next year.
- lakeeffect 18y ago
  http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/02/announcing-the-techcrunch50-conference-september-8-10-san-francisco/#comments http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/02/announcing-the-techcrun...]