LateCrunch – The TechCrunch Party For Euro Startups

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Mike Butcher is a journalist, broadcaster and commentator. He is firstly editor of TechCrunch Europe, but has also co-founded TechHub.com and Coadec.com in Europe as ventures to support the tech startup eco-system. A long time journalist, Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman.... → Learn More

What’s a good strategy when about 1,000 developers and startups converge on one point? Throw a Techcrunch party of course. So it was with some relish that we threw an end of conference networking event for startups following the Web 2.0 Expo Europe O’Reilly conference in Berlin this week. We called it LateCrunch, opened up tickets and over 300 people turned up. But, there was method to this madness. If European startups are going to weather the coming nuclear winter they are going to need eachother, for support, advice and connections. That’s a harder environment to create when the European tech scene is so spread out. Luckily in Europe we have Air Guitar to break the ice

Sponsored Ads

blog comments powered by Disqus

Sponsored Ads

Sponsored Ads