The OC Technophile

It’s a big week for startup companies as the Demo conference takes place in San Diego and the Techcrunch 50 conferences take place. Both are for startup companies to pitch their ideas and companies to vc firms and investors. Where they take a different path, is that Techcrunch 50 has the sponsors pay for the event whereas the Demo Conference charges upwards of $17.5k for companies to participate in the conference. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com has been a big proponent of Techcrunch’s conference, as he’s also invested in the conference. His points that companies shouldn’t have to pay to play brings up valid points and it’ll be interesting to see what happens this week…