1. Jason, I think giving companies exposure based purely on merit is a great idea, but I find the $2K price tag for attendees a bit inappropriate for a conference that's discussing the merits/challenges of starting a business.

As an individual struggling to start small business projects I would love to have discussions with other business owners who are building cool products. By setting the price at 2 grand you limit the conference to corporates, business owners with VC money to burn, and the few bloggers and journalists who get in free. I understand you have a max capacity, but setting the price that high will shape the audience in a direction that makes the hallway conversations less interesting.

Posted at 1:49AM on Apr 17th 2007 by Rob Goodlatte

2. Cool. Hope your seminar in Barca goes well. I would love to talk more about this event as attendee or participant.

Posted at 3:56AM on Apr 17th 2007 by Rafiq Charania

3. Hi there,
I'm from Barcelona, and I just read by twitter that nobody on the IGC conference knew what Iminlikewithyou is. I do, but I don't get it. Why is it so important? What's your opinion about it? (maybe you could just link me an article that explains it a little bit)

BTW: I'm glad that you love so much my city.

Posted at 6:54AM on Apr 17th 2007 by Antonio

4. I remember when Mike mentioned this conference at DEMO 2007. The thing is, paying $18K to participate at DEMO can be so worth it. The amount of attention from both the traditional press and blogging community that a company receives can be enormous. And, that's due, in part, to a conference that has been going on for more than 17 years. While it's cool to offer some startups a chance to present for free, that's not really a critically important value proposition. There are already some great events in the Bay area that do that, and have been doing it for years - like IBD Networks' "Radar" events. Still, it sounds like a great event. I hope the startups you focus on present real financials to the audience. Having a great idea, as I'm sure you know, is only part of the complex equation leading toward potential success. One thing I'd love to hear is how limiting you intend the audience to be. The site makes mention that it's going to be small so that attendees can interact better with the presenting companies. What, exactly, will this number be?

As for someone else's comment about the $2K attendee fee - I actually don't find that too high. This should be a show targetting people that can do something with these startups (investors, for example). If they can't pony up $2K they should wait to read about the companies on TechCrunch the next day.

Posted at 3:42PM on Apr 17th 2007 by David Geller

5. Parece interesante, gracias por la información Jason. Me alegra que estés disfrutando de España tanto y de forma particular de Barcelona, es una gran ciudad. Lo curioso de este tema es que en esta ocasión te sigo desde mi sillón, he visto tus cenas y amigos que sigo también en sus Blogs, la sensación es como si "hubiera estado allí con vosotros".

Un saludo,

Tolmos

Posted at 4:34PM on Apr 18th 2007 by TOLMOS

6. Jason,

Can you define "blogger of note"? Would that be an A-list blogger?

Posted at 6:21PM on Apr 20th 2007 by Alan

7. Jason, would you consider creating parallel opportunities for non-profit organizations to show what we're doing and give us the opportunity to present our biz goals and ideas to these thought leaders too? We non-profits are trying to cultivate a start-up style environment inside the Web teams at our organizations and could benefit from immediate feedback from the best and brightest too.

Posted at 3:57PM on Apr 24th 2007 by Chris

8. We have a company that we think would be perfect for the TechCrunch20. What did you mean by "If you're a startup company getting to know one of our 20 advisory board members who are helping us select the companies is a really good idea." Did you mean actually get to know one of them & trying to meet them? Or were you suggesting we become familiar with what they're looking for?
Thanks for the input!
-- Brian

Posted at 8:04AM on Apr 26th 2007 by Brian Blum