Just a few more days until the event. I'm very excited. Stay tuned.
Arrington just said that were about to start. Asked if everyone had a good internet connection! Yes... the internet is fast.
I'm excited for Penn & Teller!
Music is playing... strange music!
Daniel just walked across the stage
Jason and Michael on stage.
Discussing history of TC50
2900 companies applied to be on TC50
First 2 years of alumni have raised 1/4 of a billion dollars
"I heard a rumor that someone might be on stage to make an announcment in a few minutes" -- Arrington
Yammer coming on stage
Waiting for computer
Stalling... about to make an annoucment
Quoting dude from Ratatouille... support the new!
Talking about Matwani
Onto the "next" annoucement
Big annoucent.... talking about how they pick the winner of TC50
Founder of Mint---Aaron--- on stage discussing Mint
He just confirmed... Intuit has aquired them for $170 M cash
Mint team will be running Mint, Quicken Online and Quicken Desktop
He just hit publish on his guest post
Giving advice... make sure your servers on configured correctly
Inviting judges up... Jason, George, Ron, Yossi and Don
Penn & Teller logo on the projector
Format: companies have 6 minutes to present, feedback from judges for another 6 minutes
Penn & Teller on stage. pretending like Penn & Teller couldn't make it... we'll see
Sending SMS to Penn. Asking him what card he picked... like he doesn't know how to use Ustream
Penn just walked out
Don Dodge doesn't know how to type on an iPhone --- "this is an iPhone, I'm from Microsfot"
There app is kinda dumb! okay then.
Okay... so it's not that bad of an app. Kinda of clever but it's not that break through!
Ron is talking now... presentation wasn't very descriptive
"Probably a great app but..."
iPhone app is available now. No revenue at all. Not so much a money maker as a public service to get guys laid.
"are we being punked" -- Ron Conway
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