Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups

Re:Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups by Protophore on Saturday September 06, 2008 @03:08PM (#296949)

"Keep in mind that each of the 70 startups on this list paid $18,000 to get on stage"

Are these the only two conventions around that promote start-ups in this manner? $18k isn't completely absurd but it still seems pretty steep for a few people working out of a garage to pull together. It seems to me that while this set-up might help out some start-ups that it mostly helps out the people that organize it. I would imagine that the VC firms have to pay some kind of attendance fee as well.

Seems to me like someone should set up a similar conference that offers a much lower entrance fee for start-ups, or maybe even eliminate the fee all together.

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Re:Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups by pmorici on Saturday September 06, 2008 @03:23PM (#296970)

You mean like the competing free TechCrunch conference?

http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/index.php

Which is incidentally mentioned in the article you are commenting on.

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Re:Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups by Protophore on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:48AM (#299141)

Exactly! Thanks for pointing that out, not sure how I missed it.

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Re:Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups by ivey on Sunday September 07, 2008 @11:23PM (#297961)

Startup Riot 2009 will be in February. Details should be on http://startupriot.com/ soon. It's in Atlanta, free to present, and cheap to attend, not like the $1250/seat TC50.

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