Dan Kimerling

December 12th, 2008

Elevator Pitch Friday: Duck Duck GO, The Hybrid Search Engine

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It’s Elevator Pitch Friday, which means another startup has created a video that’s worth showing you. This week’s presentation comes from Duck Duck Go, a start-up that wants to make it easier for you to find what it is that you are looking for on the Internet.

Duck Duck Go combines a search engine’s algorithmic search technology… → Read More

December 10th, 2008

This Week on the CrunchBoard

Make sure to look at the latest job listing on CrunchBoard. While doing that take a look at our new Crunchboard Service and Sales Directories. They are a great way to connect with the start-up community. Click through to see some of jobs posted in the past week: → Read More

December 5th, 2008

Thank You TechCrunch Sponsors and Get a Free LeWeb Ticket

Our friends at the LeWeb conference, in Paris on December 9th and 10th, are going to be giving away one ticket to the TechCrunch reader who leaves the best comment about why they want to go (and includes a contact e-mail address). We are also excited that LeWeb’s organizers are offering TechCrunch readers a 20% discount Thank You LeWeb

Without our sponsors TechCrunch would not be possible. → Read More

December 3rd, 2008

This Week on CrunchBoard

Make sure to look at the latest job listing on CrunchBoard. While doing that take a look at our new Crunchboard Service and Sales Directories. They are a great way to connect with the start-up community. Click through for some of jobs posted in the past week. → Read More

November 21st, 2008

Get a Free Ticket to LeWeb and Thank TechCrunch's sponsors

In partnership with the LeWeb conference, which is in Paris on December 9th and 10th, we are going to be giving away one ticket to the TechCrunch reader who leaves the best comment about why they want to go (and includes a contact e-mail address). We are also excited that LeWeb’s organizers are offering TechCrunch readers a 20% discount Thank You LeWeb

Without our sponsors TechCrunch would not… → Read More

November 19th, 2008

This Week on the Crunch Board

Make sure to look at the latest job listing on CrunchBoard. While doing that take a look at our new Crunchboard Service and Sales Directories. They are a great way to connect with the start-up community. Click through for some of jobs posted in the past week. → Read More

November 14th, 2008

Free Ticket to LeWeb and Thank You to TechCrunch Sponsors

Every week leading up to LeWeb, in Paris on December 9th and 10th, the conference’s organizers are going to be giving away one ticket to the TechCrunch reader who leaves the best comment about why they want to go. We are also excited that LeWeb’s, organizers are offering TechCrunch readers a 20% discount Thank You LeWeb

Without our sponsors TechCrunch would not be possible. Accordingly, we want… → Read More

November 12th, 2008

This Week on the CrunchBoard

This week on the CrunchBoard we want to welcome Mirego and Brilliant2 to the new services and sales directories on CrunchBoard. They are great ways to reach the start-up community.

While you are checking out these new directories, make sure to look at the latest job listing on CrunchBoard. Click through to see some of jobs posted in the past week. → Read More

November 5th, 2008

This Week on the CrunchBoard

This week on the CrunchBoard we want to welcome Mirego and Brilliant2 to the new services and sales directories on CrunchBoard. They are great ways to reach the start-up community.

While you are checking out these new directories, make sure to look at the latest job listing on CrunchBoard. Click through to look at some of jobs posted in the past week: → Read More

October 31st, 2008

Thank you TechCrunch Sponsors

Without our sponsors TechCrunch would not be possible. Accordingly, we want to thank our sponsors for their support.

We also are excited to announce that LeWeb, in Paris, December 9th and 10th, is offering TechCrunch readers a 20% discount Thank You LeWeb → Read More

October 29th, 2008

This Week On CrunchBoard

This week on the CrunchBoard we want to welcome BeenVerified, Design About Town, and Span to the the new services and sales directories on the CrunchBoard. The directories are an easy way to reach the start-up community.

While you are checking out these new directories, make sure to look out the latest job listing on CrunchBoard. → Read More

October 25th, 2008

What Will Jobs Announce at MacWorld 2009?

Amongst many things, Steve Jobs is a master story teller. Every year he delivers two signature keynotes: one at MacWorld in January and one at Apple‘s World Wide Developer Conference in June. However, these keynotes are more than just new product introductions. They are true stage craft and accordingly they have become major media events. Job’s keynotes happen so infrequently and are so central… → Read More

October 24th, 2008

Elevator Pitch Friday: RouteYou makes it easy to find the perfect driving, hiking, or biking route

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It’s Elevator Pitch Friday, which means another startup has created a video that’s worth showing you. This week’s presentation comes from RouteYou, a startup that wants to make it easier for you to find outdoor routes that are optimized for your needs.

RouteYou wants to make it easy for you to find the best route from one place to… → Read More

October 22nd, 2008

CrunchBoard This Week: Two New Services

Starting a high tech company often means going at it alone, but eventually every start-up needs some outside help – whether from lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, or special types of vendors. And other times, a company just needs to sell things.

Unfortunately, startups don’t always know where to find help or list items for sale. To help them in these regards, we’ve added services and → Read More

October 18th, 2008

VMWare Update: Two Rough Quarters

VMWare, is best known as a market leader in virtualization software, a type of software that simulates hardware for the purpose of separating a computer’s operating system from its hardware. For the consumer this allows one computer to run multiple operating systems, like Apple computers running Windows. For enterprise users, virtualization lets them run multiple virtual servers off of one… → Read More

October 17th, 2008

Elevator Pitch Friday: Marcellus makes delivering video cheap and easy

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It’s Elevator Pitch Friday, which means another startup has created a video that’s worth showing you. This week’s presentation comes from Marcellus, a startup that wants to dramatically reduce the cost for companies to deliver video on their websites.

Marcellus wants to make delivering video cheap, easy, and on demand, by offering… → Read More

October 17th, 2008

Thank You TechCrunch Sponsors

Sponsors enable the TechCrunch team to keep writing about the things that you care about. So we wanted to take a moment and thank them, let you know about two great conferences that are coming up, and to announce exciting new ways to support TechCrunch. → Read More

October 16th, 2008

This Week on CrunchBoard

Is the highlight of your day the time you spend at the water cooler? Maybe you should start looking for new opportunities. Check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. → Read More

October 10th, 2008

Elevator Pitch Friday: Palo Alto Software Makes Collaborative E-Mail Intelligent

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It’s Elevator Pitch Friday, which means another startup has created a video that’s worth showing you. This week’s presentation comes from Palo Alto Software, a software company startup that wants to make it easier for organizations to manage and collaborate using e-mail, to save time and be more productive.

Palo Alto Software wants… → Read More

October 8th, 2008

This Week on CrunchBoard

Is your boss like Lumbergh? Maybe you should start looking for new opportunities. Check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. Click for some of the postings from the past week. → Read More

October 4th, 2008

The Seeds of the Next Big Thing Are Being Planted Now

While the economy might look bleak, please do not stop working on start-ups. The innovation that they bring helps the global economic engine in every phase of the business cycle. But, it is most important in downturns, to help reduce its severity and length. While operating a start-up is always difficult, and will likely be more difficult over the next few years, the seeds of the new new thing… → Read More

October 3rd, 2008

Elevator Pitch Friday: eRepublik takes strategy games to the Web

It’s Elevator Pitch Friday, which means another startup has created a video that’s worth showing you. This week’s presentation comes from eRepublik, a Spanish startup that wants to take strategy games and make them more social, more interactive, and therefore, more fun.

eRepublik wants to change the way that strategy games are played by taking out the hours of game play. Anyone who has played → Read More

October 3rd, 2008

Thank you TechCrunch Sponsors

Without our sponsors TechCrunch would not be possible. Accordingly, we want to thank the following sponsors for their support. → Read More

October 1st, 2008

This Week on CrunchBoard

Does this remind you of your team? Maybe you should think about a new job. Check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. → Read More

September 27th, 2008

Stop Complaining about Apple and the App Store

This week there have been several stories on the blogsphere (here, here, and here, for example) which consist of developers complaining that Apple has rejected an iPhone application that they submitted to be part of the App Store in iTunes, or because they believe that the process for submitting an application is too cumbersome. At least two of these have been because Apple believes the… → Read More

September 21st, 2008

The NotCot Network: A Study in Structured User Generated Content


User generated content is great. It has not only democratized content creation and distribution, giving your next store neighbor the ability to become the next Hollywood A-lister, but also let everyone’s home videos be as accessible to that neighbor as they are to someone half a world away. This often turns platforms for user generated content into unstructured and uncontrollable digital… → Read More

September 13th, 2008

Microsoft's Real Problem: Facebook is the New Outlook, and Other ways that Redmond is not Listening to Generation Y

Microsoft, for all its problems, is a great software company. Its core products, the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite, still dominate their respective markets and, while they are continually facing more capable competition and hence have declining market share, Windows and Office remain strong product offerings.

Yet, it is clear that something is rotten in the State of… → Read More

September 3rd, 2008

This Week on CrunchBoard

Having a rough week at work? Check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. Here are a few postings from the past week:

Lead Product ManagerDemand Media – Santa Monica, CA
User Interface EngineerFacebook – Palo Alto, CA
Senior Software EngineerTableau Software, – Seattle,WA
Product Marketing ManagerMimeo- New York, NY
Strategy ManagerOrganic – New York, NY
Web Application EngineerCastTV -San… → Read More

August 22nd, 2008

Thank You TechCrunch Sponsors

O’Reilly Conferences and TechWeb are presenting Web 2.0 Expo, and are offering TechCrunch readers $100 off of the conference with the discount code “webny08po1″. Thank You O’Reilly. MediaTemple, TechCrunch’s exclusive hosting provider, and a worldwide leader in managed hosting solutions across all major platforms MailChimp, a provider of turnkey e-mail marketing services… → Read More

August 20th, 2008

This Week on CrunchBoard

Does this remind you of your job? Maybe you should check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. Here is a sample from the past week: VP of EngineeringFederate Media – San Francisco, CA Senior QA EngineerCastTV – San Francsico, CA Senior Web/Business AnalystDigg.com – San Francisco,CA CTO/Co-FounderEmpatica3 – San Francisco, CA or New York, NY Senior PHP… → Read More