April 9th, 2009

PragueCrunch 2: The Final Countdown

And so, my friends, it’s time to Czech your worries at the door and enter into the warm embrace of PragueCrunch 2 which will start at 2pm on Saturday, to be held at the magnificent Hergetova Cihelna. We’ll have a few five-minute presentations from up-and-coming web services in CZ, tables for our sponsors, and plenty of beer and food. Come network, look for a job, or just drink on our… → Read More

April 6th, 2009

PragueCrunch II is GO!

This Saturday marks our second annual PragueCrunch to be held at the magnificent Hergetova Cihelna (try the veal!) on April 11 at 2pm. The program will be fairly off-the-cuff this weekend and I encourage those who’d like to speak for about 5 minutes during the event to drop me a line ASAP (john@crunchgear.com). We’ll also have a job hunt portion to the event with colored name tags for… → Read More

March 31st, 2009

Reminder: Prague-Crunch ][ Meet-up is April 11

Hey, TC/MC/CG/TCEU Central European readers! We haven’t forgotten about you. Robin Wauters and John Biggs will arrive in Prague on April 11 for a wee get-together at Hergetova Cihelna AKA the Brick Factory. We’ll start the day off at about 2pm and will be drinking, talking, and networking until the wee hours of the night. You can find the bar here on Nelso. → Read More

March 31st, 2009

Reminder: Prague-Crunch ][ Meet-up is April 11

Hey, TC/MC/CG/TCEU Central European readers! We haven’t forgotten about you. Robin Wauters and John Biggs will arrive in Prague on April 11 for a wee get-together at Hergetova Cihelna AKA the Brick Factory. We’ll start the day off at about 2pm and will be drinking, talking, and networking until the wee hours of the night. You can find the bar here on Nelso. → Read More

March 25th, 2009

Short notice CrunchGear Vegas meet-up

My God. I have been driving forever in that damn 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and are in desperate need to drown my road woes in a frothy brew with good company. The wife and I will be in some crap hole bar on the Vegas strip tonight; come and join us. I’ll tweet the actual location when we find the right place around 8:00 pm tonight. Just look for the slightly overweight nerd in a white shirt and a… → Read More

March 23rd, 2009

Mark your calendars: The 2nd Annual Prague-Crunch Meet-up is April 11

Hey, TC/MC/CG/TCEU Central European readers! We haven’t forgotten about you. Robin Wauters and John Biggs will arrive in Prague on April 11 for a wee get-together at Hergetova Cihelna AKA the Brick Factory. We’ll start the day off at about 2pm and will be drinking, talking, and networking until the wee hours of the night. You can find the bar here on Nelso. → Read More

February 5th, 2009

CrunchGear Japan Meet-up: Great success

Our first TechCrunch/CrunchGear meetup in Tokyo (TechCrunch Japan is one of Japan’s main blogs) yesterday night was a blast. Peter Ha was in town and over 100 people attended the event on very short notice, including representatives from Yahoo Japan, telecommunications giants KDDI and NTT, Opera, MySpace Japan, mobile social network GREE and many more. Japan’s super blogger Danny Choo also joined… → Read More

January 8th, 2009

Informal CrunchGear CES 2009 Meet-up: Come drown your sorrows in cheap ale

We’ll be meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada tonight at 9pm at the Casino Royale hotel. If you’re in Las Vegas and want to come by for a little bit of camaraderie and drinkie drinkie. You should just look for a bunch of drunk fat people but I’ll tweet our actual location around 9pm. → Read More

May 23rd, 2008

Prague CrunchNetwork Meet-up: Last call

We’re fast approaching our super fun CrunchNetwork Prague Meet-up and getting ready for the big night. We’re going to have some surprises coming up so watch this space but until then feel free to RSVP by email or on Facebook. Remember the event is on Friday, May 23, 2008 from 7pm until ?? at Restaurace Zvonařka. The program will be fairly basic but I’m planning an elevator pitch… → Read More

May 15th, 2008

PragueCrunch Meet-up Update

We’re fast approaching our super fun CrunchNetwork Prague Meet-up and getting ready for the big night. We’re going to have some surprises coming up so watch this space but until then feel free to RSVP by email or on Facebook. Remember the event is on Friday, May 23, 2008 from 7pm until ?? at Restaurace Zvonařka. The program will be fairly basic but I’m planning an elevator pitch… → Read More

May 8th, 2008

Prague CrunchNetwork Meet-up update – Sponsors roar

We’re fast approaching our super fun CrunchNetwork Prague Meet-up and we’re prepping the pivo and knedliky for the big night. We’re going to have some surprises coming up so watch this space but until then feel free to RSVP by email or on Facebook. Remember the event is on Friday, May 23, 2008 from 7pm until ??. Special thanks to Jack DeNeut who is assisting in the planning for… → Read More

May 5th, 2008

CrunchGear/TechCrunch Berlin Meet-up

How’s this for some fun. We’re planning a CG/TC meet-up in Berlin to match the one we’re having in Prague and I’d like to get some tentative numbers for attendance. Head over to to Facebook or email john@crunchgear.com with the subject line “BERLIN ME” if you’re interested. We’d hold the event on Monday, June 9 at about 7pm at a location to be… → Read More

May 5th, 2008

CrunchGear/TechCrunch Meet-up: The Documentary

The kind folks at Jumpoff.tv filmed our CG/TC event in New York last week and he just sent us the footage. If you were there and had a company, you’re probably mentioned so take a look. Thanks to the guys at JumpOff for the hook up. Their site is dedicated to hip hop, entertainment, and, presumably, pasty men in khakis. → Read More

May 4th, 2008

TechCrunch/CrunchGear Prague Meet-up Update

We’re fast approaching our super fun CrunchNetwork Prague Meet-up and getting ready for the big night. We’re going to have some surprises coming up so watch this space but until then feel free to RSVP by email or on Facebook. Remember the event is on Friday, May 23, 2008 from 7pm until ?? at Restaurace Zvonařka. The program will be fairly basic but I’m planning an elevator pitch… → Read More

May 1st, 2008

Meet-up Gold Sponsors up close and personal

Here are our Gold sponsors, sponsors who put up time, money, and love to make the event a success tonight. Give them a round of applause. Empressr Empressr is the first of its kind, visual storytelling application. It allows you to create, manage and share rich media presentations online. You can easily embed it in your blog and social networking pages. Or you can use it to create state of the art… → Read More

May 1st, 2008

We are ready to light up your life: CrunchNetwork May 1 meet-up tonight

Please place your dancing shoes on your feet and your gullets in their fully upright position. We are on our final approach into party-town at Red Sky (47 E. 29th Street between Park and Madison). We’d never be able to do it without the fine people after the jump. See you soon! → Read More

April 30th, 2008

HUGE meet-up sponsor shout out post: You're our everything

Tomorrow we welcome those with emailed invites to Red Sky at 47 E. 29th Street between Park and Madison. We’d like to thank our sponsors again. If you got an email for the wait list spots, congratulations. If you didn’t, there’s always next time. See you tomorrow! Hopefully Marvel doesn’t shut us down. After all, Matt Hickey is coming dressed as No-Pants Spiderman. Gold… → Read More

April 29th, 2008

May 1 Meet-up: Very nearly business time

A little NSFW near the middle. Be warned. Are you excited to be able to spend quality time with your favorite Crunchies? Want to get PHa drunk and give him a swirly? Require beer to keep from turning into a wolf? All of those things will be possible this Thursday at Red Sky at 47 E. 29th Street between Park and Madison. We’d like to thank our sponsors again and we’ll be going through… → Read More

April 28th, 2008

Reminder: May 1 CrunchNetwork Meet-up is GO

Are you excited to be able to spend quality time with your favorite Crunchies? Want to get PHa drunk and give him a swirly? Require beer to keep from turning into a wolf? All of those things will be possible this Thursday at Red Sky at 47 E. 29th Street between Park and Madison. We’d like to thank our sponsors again and we’ll be going through the wait list names on a FIFO basis. Watch… → Read More

April 24th, 2008

CrunchGear/TechCrunch Meet-up in Prague, May 23

Just a note to say that there will be a CrunchGear/TechCrunch Meet-up in Prague on May 23 with some giveaways and lots of good Czech pivo. I’m organizing this with Czech entrepreneur Jack DeNeut along with his site Nelso.com. We expect to hold it at Restaurace Zvonařka but we haven’t finalized the location. You can sign up on Facebook and watch TC and CG for more updates. → Read More

April 22nd, 2008

Attention, Seattle: CrunchGear reader meet-up, April 25th!

We’ve been talking quite a bit about our reader meet-up on May 1st in New York City, but we didn’t want the West Coast (you and I both know it’s the best coast) to feel left out, so we’re having an admittedly smaller meet-up on Friday the 25 in Seattle. You’ll get a chance to meet with Yours Truly, our own Devin Coldewey, and Peter Ha‘s flying in via Virgin… → Read More

April 11th, 2008

CrunchNetwork Meet-up Update: More spots, bigger venue

With the excitement brewing about our CrunchNetwork Meet-Up on May 1 in New York, we’ve decided to slowly open up RSVPs to about 200 more people in the expectation that we’ll have a bigger venue picked by the middle of next week. Sponsorships are lining up quite nicely and we look forward to some amazing giveaways and a bunch of cool demos at the show. That said, pop over to Eventbrite… → Read More

April 5th, 2008

Pittsburghers and Columbusites: CrunchGear is coming home

I’ll be in Pittsburgh until Wednesday of next week for RoboBusiness and a visit to the alma mater and then I’ll be Columbus, Ohio until the weekend. I’d love to meet CG readers in both locations. Drop me a line at john @ crunchgear dot com or leave a note after the jump. → Read More

March 7th, 2008

Attention Düsseldorfians: CG/TC/MC will be in your city tomorrow, Saturday the 8th

Peter and I are headed to Düsseldorf tomorrow afternoon in preparation for our flight out on Sunday. We would have flown in the animal cracker box back from Hanover but after the Hamburg flight we’d like to stick to big airplanes leaving the heart of hurricane Emma, not small planes flying into it. That said, if you’re in Düsseldorf tomorrow, Saturday 08/03/08, and would like to… → Read More

March 7th, 2008

TC/CG sit-down in Düsseldorf, Saturday 08/03/08

Peter and I are headed to Düsseldorf tomorrow afternoon in preparation for our flight out on Sunday. We would have flown in the animal cracker box back from Hanover but after hearing about the Hamburg flight we’d like to stick to big airplanes leaving the evil heart of hurricane Emma, not small planes flying into it. That said, if you’re in Düsseldorf tomorrow, Saturday 08/03/08, and… → Read More

February 15th, 2008

CrunchGear/TechCrunch/MobileCrunch Barcelona Meet-up report

[photopress:scaled.IMG_1359.JPG,full,pp_image] Proof: It was not a total sausage party. There was sausage, obviously, but it was chorizo. It has been said that there is no party like a CrunchGear party because a CrunchGear party never comes to an end. This, friends, was true about our strange little meet-up in a weird paella place near the Fira last Wednesday where I got to meet some cool… → Read More

February 12th, 2008

TechCrunch/CrunchGear/MobileCrunch Barcelona Meet-up – UPDATE!

We will hold tomorrow’s TC/CG/MC meet-up at the Cafe del Sol, Av Paral.lel 182, right down the street from the Fira. I’ve received quite a few emails already but RSVP with the subject line “BCN MEET-UP” to john @ crunchgear.com so I can put together a head count. Apparently a bunch of strangers in a law office wasn’t quite a good idea. Remember: this is TOMORROW, Feb… → Read More

February 12th, 2008

TechCrunch/CrunchGear/MobileCrunch Barcelona Meet-up – UPDATE!!

We will hold tomorrow’s TC/CG/MC meet-up at the Cafe del Sol, Av Paral.lel 182, right down the street from the Fira. I’ve received quite a few emails already but RSVP with the subject line “BCN MEET-UP” to john @ crunchgear.com so I can put together a head count. Apparently a bunch of strangers in a law office wasn’t quite a good idea. [Map] → Read More

January 8th, 2008

CES 2008: We need drinks. So do you! Monte Carlo Pub tonight at 9

Blogging is hard. Look at the crowds we have to face just to bring you all the goodies you’re getting today. Just look! So later tonight we’re going to have drinks and stuff. And, if you’re in the Las Vegas area, either for CES or you live here, we’d like you to join us. It’s your chance to meet the bloggers behind the blog and then we can blog about it on our blog. → Read More

January 7th, 2008

CrunchGear's CES Meet-up: A quick sit-down at 9pm in Monte Carlo Pub and Brewery

To all those who emailed asking about the meet up I’d like to invite you all to meet at about 9pm on Tuesday, January 8, at the Monte Carlo Pub and Brewery in the Monte Carlo. This place has good beer — it no longer brews its own, sadly — and has some standard grub for hungry CE folks. Look for the CG folks near the front at about 9pm. We’re all on AIM and email so feel… → Read More