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| Mar 10, 2021 | Groundbreaking Culture Study on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Energy Launched | "Understanding how people in energy work, live, and relate to others is an essential part of moving the energy transition forward and we're thrilled to team up with Gapingvoid to do this important work," - Katie Mehnert, CEO of AL... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | The 25 Essential Books for Every Entrepreneur’s Library | No matter what stage you’re at in the entrepreneur journey, whether you just launched your first startup or have started several successful businesses, you can always use the advice of people who have “been there, done that.’’ What better w... |
| Jul 29, 2014 | 4 Entrepreneurs Tell What Makes Miami a Great Tech Startup Ecosystem | The Miami stop on the Startup Mixology book tour was epic. Not only was there a certified mixologist there to craft cocktails for the audience, there were also llamas – and an amazing panel of 4 entrepreneurs.
Matt Haggman, Lori Anne Wardi,... |
| Jul 10, 2014 | Jermaine Dupri: Music Industry Needs Tech Savvy Execs to Survive | Music producer and entrepreneur Jermaine Dupri joined Tech Cocktail's co-founder Frank Gruber on stage last night for the launch of Gruber's book, Startup Mixology. They discussed startup culture, marketing and entrepreneurship in a room fu... |
| Jul 10, 2014 | Matt Haggman: Miami is the Perfect City for Entrepreneurs | Miami has everything a city needs to foster entrepreneurship.
Matt Haggman believes that this is true. The Knight Foundation project manager, sat down with Tech Cocktail's co-founder and author of Startup Mixology Frank Gruber to talk about... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | Disrupt All The Disruption | There’s a sign at the back entrance to the TechCrunch San Francisco office that reads, “I’m not delusional, I’m an entrepreneur.” That sign has kept me (relatively) sane for almost three years now, as TechCrunch expanded and contracted and ... |
| Dec 25, 2012 | A Holiday Gift From Gapingvoid: “I’m Not Delusional, I’m An Entrepreneur” | Gapingvoid’s unique style of visual communication has long been popular among successful and aspiring entrepreneurs: They decorate their offices with prints of gapingvoid art; they wear our t-shirts; and they read our blog and newsletter. W... |
| Sep 11, 2012 | Hugh MacLeod Comes Back With More Drawings Of The Second Day Of Disrupt | Yesterday, famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod started drawing all the action taking place at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. We present you the second batch of drawings.
In these cartoons, you will see overheard conversations, a quote from... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Hugh MacLeod Illustrates The Action Of The First Day Of Disrupt | Famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod is capturing the essence of TechCrunch Disrupt by putting what is happening on stage into clever drawings. As MacLeod is interested in startup culture and innovative businesses in general, it is a great match ... |
| Sep 7, 2012 | Hugh MacLeod: from business cards in bars to monsters for Microsoft | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
He’s the ultimate overnight success. But like mos... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | August Capital Summer Party Final Round of Tickets Released | Hey, guys, looking for something to do on August 3rd? Well, you’re in luck … We are releasing the final round of August Capital tickets today! We typically sell out of these tickets within an hour so go here now if you want one.
We also hav... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Twitter buys Posterous for more sharing expertise | Four-year-old start-up becomes the sixth acquisition by Twitter in a year
Twitter has a long history of gobbling up start-ups, and today it swallowed yet another one. This time it's blogging and sharing platform Posterous. Both companies an... |
| Dec 3, 2010 | Survey Says: 63% Of You Ignore The Ads On This Very Page | Of those of you who aren’t diligently blocking the ads on this page, 63 percent are apparently ignoring them anyway. In fact, a majority of Americans say they ignore Internet advertising the most, compared to television, radio and newspaper... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Wow. If You Think Quitting Booze Freaks People Out, Wait 'Til You Quit Twitter | I promise this is my last word on the subject.
I had already promised myself, actually, that I wouldn’t write any more about my decision to quit Facebook, Linkedin, Foursquare, Blippy, Yammer, Dopplr and every other social network other tha... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Friday Q&A: Chris Lehmann, Science Leadership Academy | If you ask Chris Lehmann how he became the principal of the Science Leadership Academy, he’ll just laugh.
“That’s a loooong and complicated story,” he says.
The Philly-native has been the only principal in the SLA’s four-year history and ha... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Last Chance for Tickets to the Summer Party at August Capital | UPDATE: Sold out again.
We’re releasing our final batch of 100 tickets now to our July 30 summer party at August Capital.
Before that party we’re also hosting an all day event – the Social Currency CrunchUp. You can see the full agenda here... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Cartoonist Hugh Macleod Gets To CwF+RtB In His Own Way | Hugh Macleod has done a good job of building “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” into a nice business for himself. He explains the secrets of his success in his post, “the three keys to social marketing” in which he states:... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | Separating out the real experts | Is your social networking expert really an expert? The top ways to tell...
As a social networking expert, I am very aware of what is happening in the social networking industry. There has recently been an influx of people declaring themselv... |
| Jul 12, 2009 | Thanks Everyone: The Real Time CrunchUp + The August Capital Summer Party. | Update: We’ve got the photos up for you to check out.
Thank you to all of you who came out to support the 2009 Summer CrunchUp! We broke 600 attendees to the Real Time Stream CrunchUp, double our initial expectations, and we hosted lots mor... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Win A Ticket To The Real-Time Stream CrunchUp This Friday | For the past few weeks, TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor and I have been pulling together speakers and demos for our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp this Friday. What started as a roundtable and a few demos, quickly grew into a full-fledged mini... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | Going Once, Twice… Last Chance to Catch Tickets for Friday's August Capital Outing and Real Time Stream CrunchUp | The last batch of 150 tickets to attend our 4th annual summer outing on July 10 at August Capital are available now (now sold out), courtesy of Eventbrite. Once these go, the only way in is to attend our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp (which we ... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Agenda For Real Time Stream CrunchUp (And Third Wave of August Capital Party Tickets) | Our Real Time Stream Crunchup is only a week and half away (get tickets here). We’ve been working hard to pull together the best startups, investors, engineers, and marketers developing products and platforms which take advantage of real-ti... |
| May 8, 2009 | Google Execs: Twitter-like Functionality Could Be Added to Search | While taking questions yesterday about alleged violation of anti-trust laws, Google execs including CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly told press that the company is, in the words of Reuters scribe Alexei Oreskovic, “looking at … ways of integrati... |
| Oct 9, 2008 | Books Are The Souvenir Edition For Your Idea | We’ve talked at length about the difference between infinite goods and scarce goods in various areas, and how you should spread the infinite ideas to make the scarce goods more valuable, but here’s a great quote that puts that in perspectiv... |
| Sep 12, 2008 | The Era of Walled Gardens is Over; Yahoo Prepares to Open Up | You are not the center of the universe, especially on the internet. That’s the lesson that even the biggest web brands are learning fast, and we expect to see widespread cultural changes occur right along side their learning.
One week after... |
| Aug 15, 2008 | The AVC Meetup in DC | As promised, here’s a picture of the "AVC" meetup in Washington DC on wednesday night. Here are a few more pictures. It’s kind of funny to see a bunch of people gathered together because of this blog and not to be there. But as I ... |
| Jul 26, 2008 | Techcrunch August Capital Event Wrapup | Thank you to the nearly 1,100 people who flowed through the Quadras Conference Center for our Mobile Web Wars event and the party at August Capital immediately afterwards. We were able to donate $7,500 to Malaria No More, which will protect... |
| Jul 25, 2008 | Details For Tonight's 3rd Annual TechCrunch Meet-Up At August Capital | We look forward to seeing you tonight at the 3rd Annual August Capital Meet-Up (the pictures are from last year’s event). Details on the event are below. If you are attending, things kick off at 5:30, right after the Mobile Wars round table... |
| Jul 17, 2008 | The Story of the Fail Whale | How An Unknown Artist’s Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community
Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This social object has been latched onto by Twitter fans not just as a repres... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Are you Haikurious? | Writer and soon to be author Paul Carr – in between a recent travelogue of adventures in the US and prior to the launch of his book “Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore” – has come up with a new site. Skewer... |
| May 13, 2008 | Ok, Wired, Let's Do This. | A week ago Wired Magazine voiced its displeasure over our syndication partnership with the Washington Post. Wired’s Betsy Schiffman wrote “We’ve got nothing against TechCrunch, but it seems crazy-crazy to us that the Washington Post, a pape... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | The Emerging Main Street Web | This is the second in a 3-part series, by Bernard Lunn, on the new Web. Part 1 was The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition.
Recessions change consumer behavior, drive weak businesses and models to the wall and enable new busine... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | Gillmor Gang Now Part Of TechCrunch Network | Journalist Steve Gillmor was a podcasting pioneer – In 2004 he began recording conversations with leading tech pundits about the issues of the day and posting them on IT Conversations. The show, which he called the Gillmor Gang, was picked ... |
| Apr 10, 2008 | The Decline And Fall of Western Civilization Part III: The Twitter Years | Are you feeling Twitter overload, or just sick of hearing about it? Blogger/Cartoonist/Ad Man Hugh McLeod feels the same way. He illustrated a post titled Why I Deleted My Twitter Account with the following cartoon:
Kind of says it all.
Cru... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Flattered | Hugh at gapingvoid says that I inspired this cartoon. I am flattered. I love Hugh’s work. |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Social net for daredevils wins VC backing | Bragster, a social network for dares (think Jackass meets Facebok), has closed a $3.5 million Series A round of venture capital funding led by Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corp. They were joined by angel investor David ... |
| Oct 16, 2007 | Tales from the Crunchboard | Here are a few jobs I picked out from our newly-launched Crunchboard jobs board which look kind’ve interesting. Jobs are often an indication of where things are heading in any market…
Blast is the BBC’s new ‘social learning network’, aimed ... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Microsoft approves Blue Monster wine | It’s ironic that, a couple of days after the head of Mozilla Europe castigated Microsoft’s attitude to Open Source and innovation in a TechCrunch interview, Microsoft today launches its own-label wine designed to promote innovation inside t... |
| Sep 13, 2007 | Mozilla president kicks Ballmer, trashes DRM, quotes Spiderman | INTERVIEW: Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, is a disarmingly casual guy, especially over a good lunch in a high-class London restaurant. But despite the relaxed delivery, he doesn’t pull his punches.
Nitot is co-founder (with Pet... |
| Aug 23, 2007 | Ok, Ok. All Of You (even YouTube) Invented Video Overlay Ads "First" | When I wrote a post earlier today suggesting that YouTube was not the first to use a Flash overlay advertisement for online video, I didn’t realize I’d be getting so many emails and comments disputing exactly who first invented the unit.
Vi... |
| Jul 28, 2007 | TechCrunch 9 At August Capital: Thank You for Coming | http://www.viddler.com/player/4a41a3d2/
Well, it’s over. TechCrunch 9 At August Capital last night was a blast, with 900 or so people demo’ing products, drinking wine and, if the video above is any indication, looking for the man of their d... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Party Gift | Just like last year, we will be giving every attendee of our party this Friday a signed limited-edition lithograph created by Hugh MacLeod. Thanks Hugh! Here’s last year’s version. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next year.
The in... |
| Dec 5, 2006 | Threshers voucher goes down storm online | Heather Hopkins over at Hitwise has a great analysis of the recent Stormhoek online voucher promotion with Thresher Wine. Hugh McLeod also has some great posts on why the voucher virus took hold and spread. Will others try and replicate thi... |
| Dec 4, 2006 | The week when London partied … Paris next. | Last week was a great week for catching up with a few people. Wednesday I caught up with Euan Semple, until then I had resisted Twitter but sadly I have been drawn into this backchannel web craze. Thursday was Media Tech 2006. Congratulatio... |
| Nov 25, 2006 | The Scoblizer is here in the UK | Robert Scoble – author of the Naked Conversations – and now Podtech ScobleShow, is coming to the UK next week. He’ll be presenting at the Online Information 2006 conference with Adriana Cronin-Lukas.
Robert says “I have my video camera and ... |
| Nov 2, 2006 | Hasta La Vista Microsoft … we won't be back! | Earlier today I wrote about my personal experience of moving away from my desktop-OS-centric web 1.0 world to a more collaborative online-centric web 2.0 world. In light of Google’s recent acquisition of JotSpot and the news that Scrybe, th... |
| Oct 4, 2006 | TagLoops: Remixable Web Movies Made Out of Tags and Feeds | TagLoops is an alpha stage Flash “movie” creation tool built by Greek IT consultant Harry Vikatos. Movies are built by pointing to images, audio or RSS feeds hosted elsewhere. Those items are tagged inside TagLoop where they can be reordere... |
| Oct 2, 2006 | SEP raises £160m and helps with the Scottish Tech Tour. | Leading UK venture capital group SEP (Scottish Equity Partners) has just announced that it has raised approximately £160 million ($300 million) for its new fund, SEP III which ranks as the largest venture fund raised in Europe in the last t... |
| Sep 11, 2006 | Private BETA screening for bloggers? | Hugh McLeod, he of gapingvoid fame, is talking about inviting bloggers to a private screening of a new film called Hallam Foe.
At the moment the Hallam Foe film screening has been tentatively pencilled in for 28th September followed by a Ge... |
| Aug 18, 2006 | Ready To Party? | The TechCrunch August Capital party is tonight, Friday, at August Capital in Menlo Park (map). The fun starts at 6 pm. Additional details are on the wiki.
There will be plenty to eat and drink, lots of companies will be demo’ing, and as alw... |
| Jun 24, 2006 | The Best Widget Ever – Gapingvoid | If you don’t know Hugh Macleaod and his daily cartoons on Gapingvoid, you aren’t in the cool crowd. His art is clever, insightful and always timely. It’s often strange. He also doesn’t mind pissing people off every once in a while.
Hugh joi... |
| Jun 10, 2006 | Robert Scoble to Leave Microsoft, Joins PodTech.net | It looks like recently funded PodTech.net has hired Microsoft’s Robert Scoble, who writes one of the most popular blogs, and he’ll be moving from Washington to Silicon Valley.
I spoke to Robert briefly a few minutes ago. His on the record c... |
| Mar 9, 2006 | Thanks Hugh | Hugh at Gaping Void linked to my VC Cliche of the Week and contributed this graphic.
I’ve added it to the orginal post with Hugh’s permission.
Thanks Hugh! |
| Feb 18, 2006 | Thank You For Coming to TechCrunch 5 | The Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party is now officially over (except for Stowe Boyd and Jason Roberts who are passed out on my couches). The pictures are here and here (tag: “techcrunch5”).
Bonus: Check out Emily Chang’s video (at bottom... |
| Aug 7, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (July 31 – Aug. 6) | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrapup
July 31 – August 6
A lot happened in our web 2.0 world this last week. Lots of new data was published by Dave Sifry and Technorati, additional work was done on the definition of “web 2.0″, as well as lots of other de... |
| May 17, 2005 | Satire | I love satire. It never fails to give me a chuckle.
I have found a great satire blog that makes me laugh every day.
It’s called Pure Garlic and is written by J. Thomas Duffy. I suppose Garlic is a reference to The Onion. Whatever the inspir... |
| Mar 9, 2005 | Complete Fucking Asshole | Hugh McLeod cracks me up daily on his gapingvoid blog.
I’ve finally decided that its cool to pilfer some of his work and put it on my blog.
So that said, here is Hugh’s venn diagram of the complete fucking asshole. We all know at least one ... |
| Mar 8, 2005 | Tuesday Night Must Reads | Matt Blumberg on the counter cliche – every cliche has an equal and opposite cliche. I like that Matt. Do you want to counter my cliche of the week posts?
Hugh McLeod on the end of metablogging. Mentioning me in your post increases the odds... |
| Jan 29, 2004 | Google On The Brain | I am not sure what to make of this but a lot of my CEOs are thinking about Google these days.
Do they have Google IPO envy? Are they getting caught up in the hype leading up to the biggest IPO in 5 years? Or are they trying to understand th... |
