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TechCrunch50 and Demo: Scoble Wants to Kill Both
Written by Allen Stern - May 30, 2008
Earlier this week, Jason Calacanis pimped Loic's LeWeb conference. Loic was then required to "re-pimp" within 48 hours -- he chose Techcrunch50 by asking Jason about why he wants to kill Demo and why Techcrunch50 is a better model.
Robert Scoble has decided that not only will he jump on the "kill Demo" bandwagon but now he is going to kill Techcrunch50 as well. This move came out of left field!
Scoble says that startups should come to him on FastCompany.tv for no cost and that you can watch for no cost. Both conferences charge several thousand dollars to attend. He believes FastCompany.tv beats them both by providing more viewers and also a longer interview and discussion time (both Demo and TC50 offer ~6 minutes on stage).
What Scoble misses is that it's not about the two/three-day infomercials, it's about the networking, the hallway discussions and the business card swaps. I am not sure his TV station can provide this. But he does make one point well - startups should try to get as much coverage as they can.
Update #1 - Scoble says via a Techcrunch post that he doesn't want to kill TC50 (never mentions demo), only to say, "I know the truth: that we’re both laughing all the way to the bank.".
Update #2 - per the FriendFeed contract, there's now a thread regarding the below video on FF
Here's Scoble's pitch:
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I'll throw in the networking for free. It's called comments. Business card swaps? I thought that's what Facebook was. Although I can't take your card anymore there, so maybe you have a point. The one thing I can't do for you that the conferences can do? After-hours alcohol. But then we do have http://www.winelibrary.tv
Thanks for the laugh!
scoble will picket outside of the conferences to get people to use fastcompany instead
Robert is not doing anything unique. All the other video interview sites like Beet.tv and others do interviews with startup for free as well. Robert is making it sounf like FastCompany is the first to offer companies video exposure on the web free of charge.
Anonymous: it isn't unique, but I do many times more tech industry startup interviews than any other show does and have a much larger audience.
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