Comments on: Want a TechCrunch spotlight on your European city? We need your help

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By: kathy

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Merely Thinking» Blogarchiv » Dig! — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:52:41 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:56:42 +0000

Oh come on,
while you´re talking about business – consider it´s about supply and demand. If there are venue suppliers that offer space for free, that´s the market price right there – 0 Euro/Dollar/etc. Obviously it would make sense for them to sell their venue at that price, if they decide to do so.

Why shouldn´t Techcrunch make use of that, it helps both sides.

By: Maarten den Braber

Maarten den Braber — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:37:59 +0000

Hey guys – nice post. Let me know if need any help with the wifi. We did the WiFi setup for TheNextWeb Conference last year, see here: http://thenextweb.com/2009/04/21/web-conference-wifi-worked/

You can reach us on twitter: @eventwifi and @eventengineers. We’re @mdbraber and @ward_event!

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:15:35 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the hundreds of venue ideas you’ve sent in as a result of this post. My team, 2 Pears, will respond as soon as they can to every one, but not immediately, so please be patient, thanks.

By: Hans Blaauw

Hans Blaauw — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:39:30 +0000

Amsterdam sounds good to me, willing to investigate funding too to get it in Amsterdam or even Utrecht.

By: Mohammed L

Mohammed L — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:32:20 +0000

Simon, get in touch with me…Love to get involved

By: Martijn Kolenbrander

Martijn Kolenbrander — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:43:03 +0000

Im willing to fund a location in The Netherlands, prefer Utrecht, but Amsterdam is also a option…………….

By: Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:24:30 +0000

Love the meetups thing, currently building a network in North England, looking to spread. Hit me up people

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:18:29 +0000

Hi Mike,
Your question:
“what we can do i.o. to energize the european start-up scene?”
My answer:
Please bring more american business angels and Seed-stage VCs. They are more risk-taking.
The European start-ups don’t get as much money as the american start-ups, eventhough our markets are smaller and more fragmented.
Seriously,
Anne

By: Robb Montgomery

Robb Montgomery — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:03:48 +0000

Your strategy seems odd. You seem to be blaming your hosts for not helping you make money. That sounds really unprofessional.

All Europe is not the same and it seems you are not helping yourself by name dropping glitzy capitals and bragging of numbers of the hundreds of guests.

If you can’t earn money with that turnout you have a problem unrelated to Europe.

Whining in a public blog about the high costs of working in places where you don’t yet know the lay of the land is silly.

Of course it can cost less, but first you have to establish a better relationship with your partners.

Not all American entrepreneurs think like this. Some are more patient and interested in building lasting bonds with partners over the longer term.

Robb Montgomery
(Writing to you from Berlin)

http://plazes.com/users/29897;map

By: OLL

OLL — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:39:57 +0000

Hey Mike,

Why don`t you come in Montreal, Canada ? We have a vibrant startup/tech scene and I`m pretty sure you could partner up with a local university.

Oops, we`re not an European city.

By: Scott Wheeler

Scott Wheeler — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:32:23 +0000

I’ve long been a fan of the meetups. (Been now in London, Berlin, Munich and Prague.)

What I find is that they pull together the sort of crowd that’s more typical of more exclusive invite-only or stupidly expensive events and always do so for a reasonable (read: startup friendly) price. Combined with their relative infrequency, they become special enough events that they do really pull together a huge chunk of the local scenes and does a great service to the regional startup culture. Quite literally, the TechCrunch Europe meetups have been the most valuable networking events for us in Europe, excepting only Seedcamp.

That said, I do think perhaps a bit more vetting on the speakers would be appropriate. At the last two events that I’ve been to (London and Munich) the speakers were hit-or-miss.

By: TT

TT — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:15:05 +0000

TC could try and partner with http://codebits.eu/

It might be a little bit too late for this year’s event, but never the less, take a look.

Sure, Portugal is relatively unknown in the international maps, but imho that’s a good thing – it’s a hidden gem.

By: Candee Caine

Candee Caine — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:30:35 +0000

Well Eastern Europe is a hopping and happening place. Lots of programmers there

By: uneasy

uneasy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:58:19 +0000

It makes me slightly uneasy the way you pitch this as if it is not a business opportunity for you. Nothing wrong with that but is it not free to pitch because that enables you to charge sponsors who hope to sell services to developers pitching at meet ups? As a business venture I would prefer to see it stand on its own two feet, pay its way like any other business because there is a demand for it rather than this idea of it asking for help.

By: igzKap

igzKap — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:53:50 +0000

Check out Bratislava, Slovakia if u really need to lower the costs for the event place , it is within a driving distance from vienna , budapest and prague ( all highways) and cheap enough

By: Tarek

Tarek — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:12:29 +0000

How about the middle east, can we see a TechCrunch meetup in Egypt one day?

By: Martin Pelicon

Martin Pelicon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:58:18 +0000

The biggest career event in this part of Europe will take place on 25th & 26th of november in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Lecture rooms will carry out career-oriented lectures, presentations of companies, workshops and round tables. Could be the right place for you… Don’t hesitate to contact me.

More info on http://qwx.si/acr

All best,
Martin

By: briseparpaing

briseparpaing — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:46:18 +0000

The recent ending of the TechCrunch France website is quite disappointing to say the least.

You guys clearly made a step in the wrong direction to energize the tech startup community here.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:44:52 +0000

A little bit OT:

Justed wanted to add my portion of appreciation of your work to support Europe´s New Technology landscape to develop, organize and marching forward in a more united way – because it is absolutely necessary!

Surely, even the best hot zones/clusters in Western Europe will never become 2nd Silicon Valleys, alone due to the regional differences in language, mentality, financing etc. – but the overall European market is far more capable as what we have seen until today!

It can´t just be Skype and some national clones of US web 2.0 platforms, there must be more! So, thanks for your support and back to the show!

By: Christian Kvalheim

Christian Kvalheim — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:16:57 +0000

We had the Euruko Ruby conference here in Barcelona at citilabs

http://www.citilab.eu/visita/index.html

Venue was very affordable and top-notch, conference was about 250 people.

By: cool designs

cool designs — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:06:53 +0000

well its being such a wonderfull platform to all. It should not limited to a particular country or city.

By: Ruud

Ruud — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:03:45 +0000

What about a venue in Holland? Near Utrecht or Amsterdam. If you want i’am sure you will find something. Just ask some universities, investors or sponsors. If Holland is an option, just contact me and I will figure out what’s possible.