Last Friday was the latest installment of TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. All focused on the realm of being “real-time”, this conference brought out some pretty interesting startups who were either launching that day or very soon and gave the press, bloggers and attendees a first glance at what they’re developing.
Not one to offer a little deviation, the hosts, Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gilmore, included several panels in the day’s events, including a one-on-one discussion with Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff. Other panel talks included how to avoid the noise in real-time, discussing media and geo streams and financing companies that focus on real-time. Michael Arrington even participated in a few lively discussions and actually began the conference by sitting down to chat with Twitter’s new chief operating officer, Dick Costolo to talk about…what else? Twitter.
Compared to the last CrunchUp, this time had another surprise: two members of the audience were picked that day to present their pitch to the group! With little notice, the names were picked and during the demo sessions, these individuals got up on stage and showed off their latest developments.
Here’s some photos from the event:
Team TechCrunch is ready to blog – Leena Rao, MG Siegler & Jason Kincaid.
Michael Arrington & Steve Gilmore interviewing Dick Costolo, Twitter’s COO.
Erick Schonfeld & Steve Gilmore moderating panel on Filtering the Stream. Feat. Jason Shellen, Kimbal Musk, Bret Taylor, Loic Le Meur, Chris Cox, Lili Cheng, Ron Conway, Amit Singhal, Jason Hirschhorn, Michael Arrington, Ken Moss and Edo Segal.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff
A CrunchUp presenter.
Another CrunchUp presenter.
One other CrunchUp presenter.
Robert Scoble got to participate in the CrunchUp by offering his thoughts on the “super Tweet”.
Marc Benioff was giving away free copies of his book to the attendees.
TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde & Co-Editor Erick Schonfeld
You can view more photos from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp by clicking here.
All photos shown here were taken by Kenneth Yeung.