Update: Early bird pricing is no longer available.

We have received many, many email requests to extend our Early Bird pricing that enables TechCrunch50 attendees to save $1,000 on the price of a ticket. To help ensure everyone who wants to attend TechCrunch50 can, we are extending our Early Bird pricing by two days, through July 17 at 12 a.m. PT. We are encouraging everyone to buy tickets now, to save $1,000 on a TechCrunch50 ticket. Our Early Bird pricing will only last for two more days.

Visit the TechCrunch50 web site for information on all aspects of conference. Hotels are starting to fill-up and sell out during the second week in September in San Francisco, so we encourage you to plan ahead. Buy your tickets and book your travel arrangements now.

You will not want to be left out of this year’s TechCrunch50, where fifty new companies will launch their products for the first time.

APPLICATIONS

I just found out about TechCrunch50, Can I still apply?
Technically, yes, you may still fill out an application. However, priority will be given to companies who applied on or before our June 27 deadline and we do not guarantee your application will be reviewed.
Please go here for Rules and Qualification.

Where do I go to fill out an application?
You may visit our application site here. You may save your application in draft mode before sending, then later submit and update your application.

I didn’t receive an e-mail confirmation stating TechCrunch received my application, did you get it?
A separate e-mail confirmation was not sent out. There was an electronic confirmation posted after you hit submit.

After submission, can I make changes to your application?
Yes, but the changes should only be to your contact information or you “Demo Login.” Please post demo details at least 1 hour prior to your appointed time.

When will Early Consideration applicants be notified?
We hope to notify Early Consideration applicants by Friday, July 18.

*UPDATED* When will Regular decision applicants be notified?
Due to overwhelming application response, we will notify Regular decision applicants by MONDAY, August 11.

I submitted my company Early Consideration, but got an e-mail saying I’m being moved to Regular Consideration. Why?
Even if you selected “Early Consideration” on your application, if you submitted your application after Saturday, June 14 deadline your application was moved to the Regular decision group.

INTERVIEWS

I’ve submitted my company, what next?
The process of review begins! First, we make sure your company qualifies and fits the TechCrunch50 criteria. (For example not launched, little press coverage, etc.) Next, we invite you for Round 1 interviews. These are 10 minute “Power” Interviews where you demo your unique technology to one of our Reviewers. Those invited to continue to Round 2 will have a second look with a different Reviewer in the same 10 minute format. Finally, in Round 3 we select our Semi-Finalists. Here we invite you back for a 20 minute in-depth interview where we get to know more about you and your product. From Round 3, we select our Finalists for TechCrunch50.

Companies will be group notified of their status periodically during the process. All companies will receive notice by their notification date.

In Round 1, how should I structure my 10 minute demo?
The entire 10 minutes should be used for your demo presentation. If there is additional time, your Reviewer may take a few minutes to ask a few questions before wrapping up. We wish we could spend more time with you but we have HUNDREDS of applications to review, thus we apologize that we simply cannot.

In your interview you may lead the Reviewer verbally through your demo site, guide them via web conference, etc. conference, etc. Please be prepared to show your technology. Have your screenshots, web conference (adobe connect, gotomeeting) or video presentation ready to go when the Reviewer calls. It doesn’t have to be highly produced, just please no “pure” Powerpoint presentations. Powerpoints with screenshots and video demos embedded are acceptable.

Remember, the 10 minutes go by very quickly so practice your demo, cover all your the important parts, and make the best case possible for why you’re the next big thing!

Where do I post my demo information?
Place all demo instructions and current contact information on your Application under the “Demo Login” section. You may login to your application here.

Please DO NOT e-mail us your Demo information! It must be centralized on your application so all Reviewers can access.

How do I contact the interviewer?
You will not contact the Reviewer.

Rather, the Reviewer will be contacting you at the phone number placed on your application at the scheduled time. They will not call you before hand. They may send an e-mail to give you a status update in the event of a time delay or need to reschedule.

I don’t want to be contacted at the phone number on my application? Can the Reviewer contact me on Skype or by cellphone?
If you wish to use an alternative number, skype, conference line or web conference, please set up the account and let us know the login credentials or meeting ID by updating your application under “Demo Login” at App2You. Please post the information no later than 1 hour prior to your appointment.

Is a web conferencing service, like Adobe Connect or gotomeeting required?
No, it is not required but has worked well in the past demos. Whatever service or presentation method you use, please make sure it is both Mac and PC compatible.

Didn’t the interviews used to be 15 minutes?
The demos have always been 10 minutes. We have minimized the Reviewer’s post Q&A so we can get through more demos.

REVIEWER CRITERIA

What are the Reviewers looking for in a company demo?
They will be looking for the next big, disruptive technology idea. They consider things like:
1. How innovative the idea is?
2. How good is the execution?
3. How likely is it that the product and company will succeed?

Our Reviewers and panel are more interested in what unique product or service you bring to the table; and less interested in who you are, where you come from, or who are your financial backers.

Have more questions? Leave a comment, and we will add them to the FAQs.

That’s right . . . TechCrunch50 is less than two months away!! We are encouraging everyone to buy tickets now, as we are expecting this year’s conference to sell out as it did last year. Visit the TechCrunch50 web site for information on all aspects of conference. We are hearing that hotels are starting to fill-up and sell out during the second week in September. Planning ahead will save you from having to ask to sleep on my couch . . .

For companies that do not meet the definition of a TechCrunch50 entrant, we are offering really great Exhibitor Packages. This interactive sponsorship opportunity enables any relevant company or product a platform to showcase their brand and services. All TechCrunch50 Exhibitors will benefit from the extraordinary media exposure we are expecting this year’s conference to attract.

Today, we are announcing our next line-up of TechCrunch50 Experts. We are truly honored to have Joi Ito, Chad Hurley and Loic LeMeur join us, to help mentor and advise the presenting TechCrunch50.

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco in September.

	Joi Ito Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons, and founder and CEO of Neoteny, a venture capital firm focused on personal communications and enabling technologies. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. In 1997 Time ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000 he was ranked among the “50 Stars of Asia” by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 “Global Leaders of Tomorrow” for 2002. CrunchBase profile.
	Chad Hurley Raised near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, Hurley received his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating, he joined eBay’s PayPal division, primarily focusing on user interface. It was there that he met Steve Chen and Jawed Karim with whom he founded YouTube, a video sharing website, in 2005. YouTube quickly became one of the web’s fastest-growing sites, and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch. There are reportedly 100 million clips viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours. Hurley currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and was voted 28th on Business 2.0 magazine’s “50 people who matter” list in 2006. That year, he and Chen sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock. CrunchBase profile.
	Loic LeMeur Loic is the CEO and visionary behind Seesmic, founded in 2007, with the goal of transforming online video into a medium for threaded, interactive video conversation. Prior to Seesmic, Loic incubated several other start-ups including four French companies: Ublog, (merged with Six Apart in 2003) and RapidSite, (acquired by France Telecom in 1999) two popular blog companies, B2L, an interactive agency in 1999 (acquired by BBDO) and LeWeb, one of Europe’s leading web conferences for businesses and web 2.0 innovators in 2005. Loic serves as a board member on the RSS Advisory Board. He is also an active investor and mentor to entrepreneurs and contributes to the World Economic Forum blog, which he founded. Originally from the South of France, Loic lives in San Francisco, California. CrunchBase profile.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Applications are due by midnight pst this Friday, June 27 (submit your company here), and our 50 finalists will be selected by Friday, August 1.

We are pleased to announce that joining Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, Ron Conway, Chris DeWolf, Dan Farber, Om Malik, Marissa Mayer, Sean Parker, Kevin Rose Sheryl Sandberg, Yossi Vardi and Jeff Weiner are three new additions to the TechCrunch50 expert panel. Marc Benioff, Don Dodge and Mark Cuban have signed on as TechCrunch50 experts.

Keep checking in with the TechCrunch50 blog, as additional announcements about experts and panels will be up next. Background on Marc, Don and Mark is as follows:

	Marc Benioff Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. Under Benioff’s direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a publicly traded company that is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. For its revolutionary approach, salesforce.com has been lauded as one of BusinessWeek’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The Wired 40, and selected for the past two years as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes. Benioff has been widely recognized for pioneering innovation with honors such as the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the SDForum Visionary Award, Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, and being ranked No. 7 on the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT survey by eWEEK. CrunchBase profile.
	Don Dodge Don Dodge is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, and Groove Networks. Don is currently Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. Don has been in the software business for more than 20 years. He started his software career with Digital Equipment, aka DEC, in the database group. He worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. Now he is at Microsoft… “the biggest start-up in the world”… working with VC’s and start-ups in the greater Boston area. CrunchBase profile.
	Mark Cuban Mark Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and chairman of HDNet a HD TV cable network. July 1982 saw Cuban start MicroSolutions. MicroSolutions became a software reseller and system integration company, selling products such as Compuserve, Carbon Copy, and Lotus Notes, with the company’s biggest client being Perot Systems. Cuban sold MicroSolutions to Compuserve for $6 million in 1990. In 1995 Cuban and friend Todd Wagner became interested in the early stages of the Internet along with their interest in basketball resulted in them starting broadcast.com which grew to revenues of almost $100 million and 330 staff. The internet company Yahoo brought Broadcast.com with Cuban earning himself just over 5 billion worth of Yahoo stock. CrunchBase profile.

More announcements will be coming up next week. Stay Tuned.

In addition to announcing our next three experts, we would also like to thank our new service partner Ustream for joining TechCrunch50 this year. Thank you!!

Ustream is the leading internet broadcasting platform. Ustream’s proprietary technology powers an easy-to-use, web-based interface, allowing anyone with a camera, computer and Internet connection to broadcast live to the world. Integrated with a host of interactive tools including chatrooms, co-host, and shout meter, Ustream’s platform delivers real-time, social experiences on the web. Since its beta launch in March 2007, Ustream has grown to 360,000 registered users broadcasting 15,000 live shows a day. Ustream.TV is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is privately held. For more information, please visit: www.ustream.tv.

Thanks to all the expanded space at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, we have even more options to participate in TechCrunch50.

Exhibitor Package Highlights:

• 5’ table for exhibit space in the West Hall for the full 3 days of the conference. We provide the table, linens, printed sign, power and wireless connectivity.
• 4 conference passes (retail @ $2,995 each / $11,980 total value)*
• 1 ticket to VIP dinner Monday, September 8 (partners and sponsors, experts, keynote speakers and 50 presenting companies)
• Corporate logo included in the exhibitor section of the TechCrunch50 website, blog and all print media (including program guide w exhibitor layout)
• Right to offer corporate marketing “schwag” in the TechCrunch50 conference bags and to distribute company marketing materials during conference
• The Exhibitor Package is targeted to early-stage product companies, and the conference passes and demonstration space package is for use by a single company.

Exhibitor packages are $10,000 and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis and may be paid by credit card, Paypal, check or wire transfer. (Exhibitor reservations to be paid by check or wire transfer will be held for 10 days, and then released back for sale if payment is not received.)

Get your exhibitor package automatically via Eventbrite ticketing or email us at sponsors [at] techcrunch50 [dot] com.

We’re still hosting a 2008 DemPit
Like last year, DemoPit slots will be offered on a priority basis to TechCrunch50 applicants (preferred slots will be extended to semi-finalist companies for use for 1 of the 3 days of the conference) starting late July. Additional inventory, if available, will be released for early-stage start ups in early August.

Come be part of the action and join in the start-up energy of TechCrunch50.

And remember, applications to TechCrunch50 are due this Friday, June 27 at midnight pst. Submit your company here.

We are pleased to announce that joining Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, Ron Conway, Chris DeWolf, Marissa Mayer, Sean Parker, Sheryl Sandberg, Yossi Vardi and Jeff Weiner are three new additions to the TechCrunch50 expert panel. Kevin Rose, Om Malik and Dan Farber have signed on as TechCrunch50 experts.

Additionally, as a reminder, this Friday, June 13 is the deadline for applicants seeking “early decision” guidance on acceptance to TechCrunch50.

Keep checking in with the TechCrunch50 blog, as additional announcements about experts and panels will be up next. Background on Kevin, Om and Dan is as follows:

	Kevin Rose Kevin Rose is the founder and chief architect of Digg. Kevin started Digg in September 2004 as a personal project. His initial idea was to conduct a social experiment in how masses of users could control and promote news and other content on the Web, without external editorial control. After a very short time, he realized the power of his idea, as Digg was becoming a resource for breaking news stories and developed a strong user following. Kevin is also a co-founder of the Internet Television Network Revision3 where as a member of the board he provides strategic direction to the company. Crunchbase profile.
	Om Malik Om Malik has over 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. Most notably, he was a Writer at Red Herring during its glory days. He then went on to be part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a Senior Editor. Most recently, he was a Senior Writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and MIT Technology Review. Additionally, Malik is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. He is the founder of Giga Omni Media, the company behind popular blogs such as GigaOM, NewTeeVee, WebWorkerDaily, Earth2Tech & OStatic. Crunchbase profile.
	Dan Farber Dan Farber was named Editor-in-chief of CNET’s News.com in February 2008. Previously he was vice-president of editorial at CNET Networks and editor in chief of ZDNet. Dan has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. He joined ZDNet in 1996, and led the development of ZDNet’s worldwide network of more than 70 technology-focused sites. Prior to joining ZDNet, Dan served as vice president and editor-in-chief at Ziff-Davis’ flagship computing news publications, PC Week and MacWeek. He was also a founding editor at MacWorld and part of the editorial staffs of PC World and PC Magazine. Crunchbase profile.

More announcements will be coming up next week. Stay Tuned.

In addition to announcing our next three experts, we would also like to thank our new partner MSN Money for joining TechCrunch50 this year. Thank you!!

MSN Money is a premier online financial resource, providing great original editorial content plus the tools and community to empower investors and engage spenders and savers. Taxpayers can find helpful tax tips, checklists, a tax estimator and the Deduction Finder to help them make informed decisions about filing. MSN Money also helps users stay informed with in-depth and up-to-the-minute data, investment recommendations, valuable tracking tools, and opportunities to connect with other active investors to make smart financial decisions. MSN Money is located on the Web at http://www.money.msn.com.

Joining Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg and Yossi Vardi are three new additions to the TechCrunch50 expert panel. We are pleased to announce Chris DeWolfe, Sean Parker and Jeff Weiner will be joining us at TechCrunch50.

Stay tuned as additional announcements about experts and panels will be up next. Background on Chris, Sean and Jeff is as follows:

	Chris DeWolfe Chris DeWolfe is the co-founder and chief executive officer of MySpace.com, the leading online lifestyle portal. DeWolfe, alongside co-founder and president, Tom Anderson, created a new platform for a generation to communicate and discover culture based around the self expression and connectivity of the site’s 110 million active users. As MySpace’s CEO, DeWolfe is responsible for all aspects of the site’s strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Along the way, DeWolfe has led strategic initiatives that have extended the site’s reach into a number of vertical categories – such as online video (MySpaceTV), politics (MySpace Impact), news, music and film – and at present a total of 29 international markets. Under DeWolfe’s leadership, MySpace has grown exponentially since its launch in 2004, with an average of 300,000 new users signing up daily. More than 70 million people in the U.S. visit the site each month, creating a user composition that includes politicians, bands, filmmakers, comedians, photographers, and people wanting to communicate with friends and plan their social lives. CrunchBase profile.
	Sean Parker Sean Parker is the co-founder and Chairman of Causes on Facebook and MySpace, a new network that aims to enable large-scale political and social activism on the Internet. Sean is also a Managing Partner at The Founders Fund, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco . Previously, Sean was the co-founder of the category defining Web ventures Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. At Napster, Sean helped to design the Napster client software and led the company’s initial financing and strategy. Under Sean’s leadership, Napster became the fastest adopted client software application in history. Following Napster, Sean co-founded and served as President of Plaxo, where he pioneered the viral engineering techniques used to deploy Plaxo’s flagship smart address book product, ultimately acquiring more than 15 million users. In 2004, Sean left Plaxo to become the founding President of Facebook, one of the most rapidly growing sites on the Internet today. Sean sits on the boards of several private companies. CrunchBase profile.
	Jeff Weiner Jeff Weiner is the Executive Vice President of Yahoo!’s Network Division. Yahoo!’s global reach of over half a billion users worldwide serves as the foundation for the division’s objective to be the leading starting point on the Web for the most consumers. In his current role, Weiner oversees the company’s category leading consumer web products, including Yahoo.com and My Yahoo!; Communications and Community products including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, and Flickr; Search products including Yahoo! Web Search, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Local; and Media, including Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Entertainment properties. From 2002 to 2006, Weiner served as Senior Vice President overseeing the Yahoo! Search and Marketplaces division. Beginning in November 2005, Weiner added responsibilities for Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Small Business. Prior to Yahoo!, Weiner was the co-founder of Windsor Digital, a private equity firm focused on digital and media investments. From 1994 to 2000, he worked at Warner Bros., where he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Bros. Online and played a key role in developing and overseeing the division. CrunchBase profile.

In addition to announcing our next three experts, we would also like to give a “shout out” to a returning partner. International law firm Perkins Coie is joining us again this year as a supporter of TechCrunch50. Thank you!!

Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm offering a full spectrum of legal services. With more than 650 lawyers in 14 offices across the United States and in China, the firm serves great companies ranging in size from start-ups to FORTUNE 100. Many of the firm’s clients are leaders in traditional industries as well as emerging technology markets, including Internet, software, digital media, hardware and telecommunications. The firm’s Emerging Companies attorneys have extensive experience in working with technology companies at all stages of development, from start-up planning to all aspects of capital formation. We help our clients protect and leverage their intellectual property, secure financing from venture capitalists, private equity groups and others, develop growth strategies and, when appropriate, exit strategies. As our clients grow, we work with them in public offerings, partnering ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.

We are thrilled to announce the next three experts participating in TechCrunch50. Joining Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha and Marissa Mayer as TechCrunch50 experts are Ron Conway, Sheryl Sandberg and Yossi Vardi.

	Ron Conway Ron Conway is one of the Internet’s pre-eminent angel investors. He was the Founder and Managing Parter of the Angel Investors LP funds whose investments included Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware and Brightmail. Ron was names #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top “dealmakers” in 2006. Ron currently on investments with Baseline Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. He is an active advisor for a number of Internet companies and also very active in community and philanthropic activities, including Vice Chairman of UCSF Medical Foundation in San Francisco and co-chair of the “Fight for Mike” Homer and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Crunchbase profile.
	Sheryl Sandberg Sheryl Sandberg was named COO of Facebook in March 2008, and she manages business operations including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy, and communications. Prior to Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, where she built and managed the online sales channels for advertising and publishing and operations for consumer products globally. She was also instrumental in launching Google’s philanthropic arm. Sandberg was previously Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton. She was also a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and an economist with The World Bank. CrunchBase profile.
	Yossi Vardi Yossi Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur most famous for being the original investor in ICQ - the first Internet-wide instant messaging system. Vardi has invested in over 50 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, cleantech, and others. Vardi has been an active civil servant in Israel through projects involving energy and infrastructure. He also co-founded Alon, an Israeli oil company. Vardi acted as an advisor to the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program on issues of energy in the developing world. Vardi has received many awards including The Prime Minister Award, The Industry Award, Entrepreneur of the Year (Tel Aviv University), and the CEO!’s Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame from the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. CrunchBase profile.

Yossi and Ron participated with us last year as experts. We are honored to have them joining us again this year. Likewise, we could not be more excited to include Sheryl in this year’s expert line-up, to bring her Facebook and Google perspective to TechCrunch50.

Stay tuned as weekly announcements about experts and panels will be forthcoming, in addition to more surprises along the way.

We’re pleased to announce the first three experts for our 2008 conference: Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, and Marissa Mayer.

	Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen is the co-founder of Ning, the create-your-own social network platform company that has raised over $100 million in funding. He also serves on the board of Open Media Network. Marc is best known as a co-founder and chief technical mind behind Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely- used web browser.
	Roelof Botha Roelof Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital focused on services and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY) and worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries), has a BS in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
	Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer is VP, Search Products & User Experience at Google. She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to 100+ languages and launching numerous features and products. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. Before Google, she worked at UBS research lab (Ubilab) and SRI International. Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek (“10 Tech Leaders of the Future”), Red Herring (“15 Women to Watch”), Business 2.0, BusinessWeek and Fortune.

Marc, Roelof and Marissa were experts at our inaugural conference last year, and they lead very lively panel discussions with our presenting companies. We’re thrilled to have their leadership support again this year.

We’ll be announcing more experts on a regular basis over the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

The TechCrunch Conference is back! This year we are expanding the program to three days to fit in ten more company launches, as well as more panels, discussions and workshops.

To make room for everything we’re moving out of the Palace Hotel and into a bigger and better venue: the San Francisco Design Center. We expect well in excess of 1,000 attendees. The conference is being held on September 8 - 10, 2008

Be part of the merit-based agenda:

• Apply to be one of the TechCrunch50 by midnight pst, Friday June 27 (early consideration available if submitted by June 13.)
• All technology submissions are welcome from all corners of the world. Learn more about the process here
• Finalists will be selected by Friday, August 1
• There are no fees to present. In fact, a top prize of $50,000 will be given to the most promising startup to launch at the event.
• Even if you’re not selected as a finalist, you can still participate in the conference DemoPit

Be part of the action:

• September 8-10, 2008
• San Francisco Design Center Concourse
• Buy early-bird tickets by July 15
• Learn more about the agenda

Thank you charter partners:
We’re incredibly lucky to have the support and backing of a great and growing group of corporate partners. Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures and Fenwick & West all returned quickly to support us for the second year in a row. Google and Microsoft reached out as well, and we’re very grateful for their new commitment to our merit-based conference format.

See you in September!