Comments on: DEMO Ups The Ante Against TC50 – Offers $1 Million To Winners

By: TC50 Ups The Previously Upped Ante: Doubles Down Demo | CenterNetworks

TC50 Ups The Previously Upped Ante: Doubles Down Demo | CenterNetworks — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:55:01 +0000

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By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:10:05 +0000

In the end, I go to a conference to learn and to meet new people, and I think TechCrunch50 is the best place to do that. I’ve gone to the last two big TechCrunch conferences, and they both have been more then fantastic. The people that attend, and the speakers has always been fantastic. (Disclosure: I work part time at TechCrunch as of June 22nd).

By: John

John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:43:53 +0000

I think that this is false promotion. The value is in unsold print ad inventory. Print magazines are shutting down and getting smaller. It comes across a bit cheezy. Demo should have at least put up $100k in cash to top TC50 but the cross promotion unsold print ad inventory comes across like a gimmick.

Just keeping it real.

By: Holden Page

Holden Page — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:23:39 +0000

Oh Snap,

What is Erick gonna say now? DEMO is evil? Or this:

“2 million dollars? We have 2 million readers so don’t worry, we’ll cut down on the Twitter news… just for you! But you have to agree that all future news of your company goes to us or your SOL. Happy coding :)”

I love competition.

By: DEMO vs TC50. DEMO raises the bar – offers $2 million to winners. – The Next Web

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:02:32 +0000

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By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:40:38 +0000

I guess TC50 will say that they don’t charge and you get better coverage and they have better industry experts on panels etc

cue Jason Calacanis to say just that ;)

By: tonybls12

tonybls12 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:57:19 +0000

wow that’s some prize pool, i wonder what TC50 will come back with?