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May 11 2010

The Launch Conference

Mike is doing TechCrunch Disrupt–his spin on TechCrunch50–in New
York City later this month, and I will be continuing my plain vanilla
vision of TechCrunch50 at a new event called simply Launch (or “The
Launch Conference” if you like) in early 2011 (date will be announced
shortly). I will be speaking at his Disrupt conference later this
month, and he will be speaking and covering mine. There are no hard
feelings. We’re still friends, and as such, I’m not going to do any
press or comment further on the dissolution of TechCrunch50. It’s
painful enough to see a legendary brand die in year three (tear drop).

via thelaunchconference.com

It looks like Calacanis' and Arrington's conflict during last year TechCrunch50 probably took a place. So Jason is about to start his own version of TechCrunch50 - The Launch Conference.

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Mar 4 2010

Followup on TechCrunch' Macbook Air incident

Daniel Brusilovsky recently asked the founder of a startup for a Macbook Air and offered coverage in exchange. That founder was me, the CEO of Divvyshot. I came forward to Mike at TechCrunch.
For the record, Daniel never received any compensation from Divvyshot.

via sam.bluwiki.com

The guy who was involved into the incident with Macbook Air and TechCrunch intern finally speaks out. However, it looks like he's missing the most important point: all parties involved, including Mike, Jason and even Daniel, will likely stay connected and keep acting together.

"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary" was said by Brendan Behan.

I think your story had to stop after delivering it to Mike.

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Feb 25 2010

MySpace product document leaked

On Tuesday we posted an internal MySpace product document presenting detailed recommendations on rebuilding the MySpace developer/apps platform. Included in that post was an embed of the document hosted on Scribd. MySpace has chosen to send a DMCA notice to Scribd to have that document removed, and Scribd complied.

So we’re putting it on our own servers. You can download it in all its glory here.

If you want to fight this, MySpace, you have to come through our lawyers.

via techcrunch.com

MySpace is get to fight it back, by the way. I don't think it's going to happen though. :)

Here is the direct link:

http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/apps-expert-review-2a.pdf

(Plenty of illustrations with comments.)

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Feb 25 2010

Initial traction for startup

Maybe that number is different for you, but in all cases, we’re talking about going from no traffic to a certain level of sustainable traffic. The sustainable part is key – a large bump in TechCrunch traffic followed by no long term users does not count (trust me, we went through that once). So traction is the process of getting from customer 0 to customer 10,000 and maintaining a sustainable growth rate.

via blog.newscred.com

NewsCred.com founder shares his experience about getting initial traction for startup company. Interesting.

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The Launch Conference

Followup on TechCrunch' Macbook Air incident

MySpace product document leaked

Initial traction for startup

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