Comments on: Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You’s!

By: Khang Toh

Khang Toh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

When will we see a CN-20? I think CN-20 would definitely do well (perhaps) this time round sticking with startups that were not VC -backed

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thaniks for the feedback Ryan!

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Khang - last night I had chinese food for dinner - they gave me a fortune cookie at the end which read:

"Man must never ask question to which he know answer"

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m very impressed with your coverage of TC40, it’s great to have an independent voice keeping up with it. I absolutely agree with your thoughts on Mint. Ridiculous. I hope they do give the money to charity, because venture backed companies should not be competing in startup competitions. That’s an extremely unfair playing field.

By: Orli Yakuel

Orli Yakuel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s a great post and thank you for the mention. It was my pleasure to finally meet you in person!

By: SEO Mash

SEO Mash — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Really enjoyed reading your coverage and getting your perspective on TC40. As always, you did a great job Allen!

Obviously this was a big money maker for Mike and crew. Do you feel that most attendees got their $2500 worth?

By: Brian Solis

Brian Solis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen, great assessment on the conference. Nice work on the coverage too. It was fast paced and incredibly difficult to keep up, but thanks to people like you, your coverage helped provide clarity.

I ran a couple of posts from a different perspective – basically a view of TC40 through pictures. Here are the links – http://bub.blicio.us/?p=395 and http://bub.blicio.us/?p=399

Cheers!

By: Semper Fi

Semper Fi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://valleywag.com/tech/conflicts-of-interest/techcrunch40s-vc-sponsors-300996.php Great perspective, definitely there were folks sleeping with one another. A friend who was a potential finalist mentioned to me how competitive intel was being passed around behind the scenes.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Top notch coverage as normal Allen. Glad to see some independence.

Did you speak to Mike about TC having the details and posting it before you guys?

also why the hell was the guy from engadget there? The only reason I could see for him being there was that he was friend with JC.

Surely the end voting should have been done like Olympic ice skating judging, IE you can’t vote for your own country or in this case you can’t vote for your own business. On a side note I doubt that these guys did vote for mint, I wouldn’t off if I was there.

By: Subu

Subu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Security… yes, I’d like to know how they are going to save the users’ bank, credit card info too. Even if they encrypt it, store it in vaults, isn’t this just adding one more place to steal personal info?

I’ve been visiting Techcrunch for some time now and lately I get the feeling they have posts about websites/applications because they know each other well. I am just tired of listening to praises for social networks, photo modifiers, custom search using google search, but with a picture (!!) etc. Oh… and the animated ads everywhere… I still go there though… :)