Valleywag
I have to hand it to Jason Calacanis. When it comes to the business kick to the groin, the WIN founder and former AOL executive, has excellent timing. Calacanis has announced, with Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, a rival demo conference — on the first day of Chris Shipley's own showcase for new products and companies. As an aggressively show-stealing move, this is up there with Steve Jobs' launch of the iPhone while the rest of the consumer electronics industry wandered listlessly round the CES show in Las Vegas. The trademark Calacanis flourish: a populist promise that presenting companies, who pay Shipley an eye-watering $18,500 per slot, will get a place on merit alone.
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Merit alone, and an perhaps an equity position in the fledgling company along with Kvamme & crew @ Sequoia if it gets the lucky nod, like Richard Dreyfuss did with the little "grays" in CEot3rdK...
Make sure you stay inside the lines on your Devils Tower Coloring Books, all you start-ups!
Conflict of interest? Never, ever, eva!
What were they going to do with that ~$20K anyway, buy a Google Enterprise server or something?
At least this whole thing makes it easier for Jason to find "his" next idea for a startup.
You still have to hand it to this Jason dude. This is the whole EIR idea turned on its head and into a public show and cash cow...
But unlike DEMO that attracts guys already loaded on cash this one will get the usual TechCrunch set. Hype babies who forked over equity to the "right insiders".
Ignore this crap, if you are a real leader you do not need to bother with Jason and Mikey. Would Jason invite Nick Denton to present ?
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