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Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Jim — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:10:45 -0000

what is the comparable graph for DEMO out of curiousity?

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Martin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:56:22 -0000

Interesting data! We would be on the very long tail as well with 3scale (does your own money count?). Didn't make it to the final, but had a very successful demo pit day. Good conference!

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

kosso — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:48:00 -0000

they're backed by Geni.

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

zato — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:45:16 -0000

What I'd like to know is who funded Yammer.

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

delmar — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:40:09 -0000

you're joking, right. "cream of the cream?" gimme a break. most of the products aren't even ready yet. for my $$$, i'll go with demo

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Santiago Siri — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:34:33 -0000

Great blog post. With Popego we raised a seed round of $250K.. I'm impressed we are actually on the long tail.

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Billy Joe — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:14:57 -0000

Most of it is Silicon Valley echo chamber. I think eventually twitter will go into shitter as I do not see the business model...

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Jeff — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:14:57 -0000

just updated the 10 companies' names

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

davemc500hats — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:05:33 -0000

interesting analysis jeff... nice job.

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

gregorylent — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:03:10 -0000

one thing seemed clear, there were no hungry people giving those presentations .

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Scott Rafer — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:49:47 -0000

If you list the 10, i bet we can all fill in the blanks. The triggit link doesn't make sense to me, btw.

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Jeff — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:15:02 -0000

Thx. I use IAMWW w2. I'm searching the site for the download link, but it seems like the creator has taken it down.

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

EricFriedman — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:02:01 -0000

Thanks enjoyed this post. What theme are you using?

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Guest — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:58:12 -0000

Some of the funding data may be skewed. It's possible that upon being accepted to TC50, companies were able to get funding because of the opportunity of having a breakout hit. Subsequently, they updated TC on their funding details.

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

centernetworks — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:53:38 -0000

great post- i linked you up from my site

Re: How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist?

Anthony Farrior — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:01:18 -0000

You scared me at first :O , but you are right, team dynamics, execution and structure is what makes a company successful...