Get a meeting with TechCrunch writer MG Siegler
MG is looking to learn about smart and interesting teams building great products.
Akshay Arabolu
Hey MG, where does parislemon come from :-)? would love for you to check out GetComparisons.com and get your feedback. Pls ping me @shaymus if you like it!
Ricky Yean
I am a young YC founder, at 23, looking to improve the way social media marketing is done today by helping marketers gain visibility into their performance on Twitter (your fav), Facebook, etc, and use data to recommend actions they can take to increase performance: best times, best people, best content, etc. We've been building on Twitter since we were 2nd yrs, and would love to chat with you!
Jason Demant
I quit my job, sold all of my stuff, traveled for a year and then started the travel company I desperately wanted but couldn't find. Unanchor answers the questions what should I do and how should I get around? We sell tour itineraries that give you the tour guide experience at a fraction of the cost. We're ready to make our first PR push and would love for you to be the one to break our story.
John Young
We’re about to launch a “LinkedIn for Personality” and would love you to help! Our product lets you learn how people see you, improve important relationships, and discover your hidden strengths. We’re crowdsourcing a personality assessment that gives actionable and regret-free info. Imagine a Myers-Briggs personality test mixed with “you’ve been tagged in a photo” and 250,000 words of advice.
Jacob Gordon
My startup, QuoteTh.is, has a unique approach to content-sharing and I'd like to learn more about how we can serve sites like TechCrunch. QuoteTh.is lets online publishers highlight specific quotations and make them easily sharable across social networks. Rather than just posting headlines to Facebook or Twitter, readers can share nuggets of wisdom and provocative ideas. Oh, and I'll bring cookies
Ben Lang
I'm at a teen startup incubator in Mountain View called Teens in Tech. Next Friday we have our demo day where I'll be presenting http://www.MySchoolHelp.com. MG, you're the kind of person I'd love to hang out with sometime to chat.
Pamela Day
To give: An interesting story. From how I 'discovered' my idea, social proof, and finding co-founders. All just a bit quirky and curious. To get: Meet MG who has an interesting lens on this industry and could school me in a thing or two. In closing- pick me, pick me!
Vanessa Ramos
Thousands of software developers from all around the world including the US, Russia, China, Japan, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain... really like what we do (developer profiles). And this is my best bet to convince you to speak with us.
Agnes Lam
My startup, CoderCharts LLC, aims at disrupting the IT recruiting scene by getting developers hired through their performance. As a female founder, I'd like your take on women's chance of success in the Silicon Valley's Boys' Club ... if there is such a thing!
Tommy Huynh
I've been a TC reader for 8yrs now. You guys are my goto for tech/startup news. If you told me Goog & Apple merged and took over the world. I would believe. I'm working on a mobile app that lets specialty food producers run their internet biz from smartphones & tablets. purplemenu.com/demo - demo/purple. Looking to turn a $20bn industry upside down and grow! I'll bring u box of artisan chocolates
Alexia Tsotsis
I am a hard working startup blogger who wants to learn the ropes.
Anthony Krumeich
My startup isn't NEARLY as sucky as everyone else's. And our mascot is cooler... amiright?? http://getbloodhound.com/
Joseph Yen
Hi, we developed a community publishing platform that let's anyone start an online magazine. People can post stories, photos and links. Editors moderate submissions and decide layout, promotion and featured articles. It's in public beta (8 weeks) here: http://convozine.com/
Convozine. Zines for everyone.
JEAN-ELIE KAFROUNI
Capseo is the #1 platform dedicated to influence on Social media, Blogs, forums..
We use crowdsourcing to offer services such as SEO, SMO content writing... Thanks to our own algorithm, we scan our clients website, identify their needs and find the right people to do the work matching the needs with the skills available. We manage the whole campaign and charge with a cost per visitor!
Patrick Hustad
Like you MG, my parents have no idea what i have done the last 8yrs. Mystorya.com, is a social networking website that allows you to share YOUR stories with your friends, family and the world. Unlike fb, flickr, twitter, and youtube, Mystorya , will allow you to plug all these in our storybook templates, write your stories, share them.Mystorya will archive the world's story. Everyone has a story.
Ajit Sane
I want MG's opinion on the sports social networking space. Spanatix.com was recently launched & has already got great traction in connecting sports fans globally to engage in lively discussion on hot sports topics. Spanatix's FB App 'FanMeter' allows users to compete with others, predict outcomes of games (NFL, NCAA, Cricket, etc) & earn points which can be traded for exciting gift cards.
Hooman Moayyed
I have built a mobile app that allows people to make wallposts, tweets and youtube posts using their own voice. We also transcribe the audio into text so people can tweet while driving. It works great for birthday messages as well. I would love to get your ideas on how you see this app fitting in with the 18-35 demographic and if you see other potential applications for it.
Yuri Rabinovich
Because Startup Monthly is a great way to accelerate ideas and he might be interested to be a mentor or investor in program teams.
Thanks,
Yuri
Eric Edelstein
he's asked me for years to meet with him and i just haven't had the time. *JUST KIDDING*. Seriously, we're a bunch of South African's who are doing cool stuff - evly's dev team is based in the most beautiful city in the world - Cape Town, and we're creating a marketing, biz dev and sales team in the 2nd Most beautiful city - San Francisco. Why? evly.com is the Social Media platform of the future.
Hugo Bernardo
I'm a fellow Apple fanboy, I'm exotic (Portuguese, winemaker, 1st Palm fanboy), and I love wine. The application I'm working on is about wine. I want everyone in the world to look and feel good anytime they pick a wine, avoiding cold sweats and embarrassing situations in front of your friends or date. Simple idea that I dream of putting together.
Kei Kubo
I develop a cloud hosting PaaS, one of your favorite topics. Fluxflex.com is App Store + dotCloud for web developers. Fluxflex integrates with GitHub and users can install various open source apps such as Haskell, Node.js, Rails and other dozens of apps into our hosting platform with just one-click. Also fluxflex automates the deployment from GitHub in real-time without any additional actions.
Zohaib Rahman
We want to improve user experience on TechCrunch & CrunchBase. We at IndexTank believe the browsing experience can be enhanced with a good site search. I would love to Demo him our product which is currently being used by sites such as Reddit and GetAround.
Jon Gagnon
My company is creating a new space at the intersection of TV & Games. We are about to raise a round & have some very interesting (huge) partnerships to announce.
Adam Beguelin
Surveillance meets Social: My startup Sensr.net is starting to get some traction. We're processing about 500GB of security camera data per day now. Would love to give him the details and spread the word.
We're a cloud based service that monitors IP cameras for consumers and small businesses. We integrate with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
We have a great team with stellar backing.
stephen boyd
I have a mobile startup called MoBubble, a mobile marketplace that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions based on user proximity. We have a lean and powerful team of three, a fully built-out product, and are now moving into the mobile space. Our BETA product is live. We'll be looking to launch our entire product at Disrupt. We'd love the chance to sit down with MG and get his take on our app!
Jeff Martens
CPUsage (http://www.cpusage.com), is harnessing the unused processing power of idle computers to build an Infrastructure-as-a-Service for high performance computing. Like SETI@Home for commercial purposes.
We don't live in the bay area and don't have the same level of access to people like MG as those that do live in Silicon Valley. We are doing something world changing and need to get the word out!
Siu Rui Quek
VSee is a video collaboration software that makes remote work less lonely and more productive. Most of the tech companies who sell video collaboration, ie, Cisco/WebEx, Citrix/GotoMeeting, still force their workers to commute, since their tools are designed for meetings rather than doing work. Our team is distributed across 6 states and 4 countries; even locals come to the office one day a week.
Yu-kai Chou
Connection through the Startup Grind. I run a startup called RewardMe that just raised $850K in seed money. We are a Social CRM for retail stores and have an experienced entrepreneur team, including a member who has 4 successes (sold for $850M, $120M, $28M, and SEVEN Networks) and 0 losses. We were selected as AlwaysOn as the Top 10 Companies to Watch. TeleNav, a public company, also invested.
Adam Katz
I was overly active during the late 80s / early 90s BBS era, and want to discuss how that was the original "social media" age. And that everything now is stealing from that time period.
Tyler Young
MG loves tech. I love tech. He loves movies too, and writes about them in Haiku. I love movies a lot. So I created Wiggelhop, a movie planner for iOS and the Web. http://vimeo.com/25265090 Working on Bumpercar now. Top secret stuff. But I might be persuaded to share with a renegade. An outlaw hunting outlaws.
Sara Morgan
I'd love to see more coverage on women founders and their impact on the tech community:) Moved from the East Coast (Washington, DC) to San Fran without ever having been here. I am the founder of DressRush.com, a social commerce play in the wedding space and would love to chat with you more about it!
Douglas Perry
I'd like to find out if what they say about writers, is really true :) and discuss the future of publishing
Max Yeh
My startup, Wishcan.com, is a social sourcing platform that aims to become the only destination that you would ever need to fulfill any needs and wants. You can get anything by making a request: specifying a budget and a deadline. We then make it really easy for you to broadcast your request via location or your social networks. Any user can then bid on your open request in an auction.
Kash Vaidya
I am persistent. It's a matter of when not if.
roger jin
Three reasons. I've been reading MG's posts for years. We're debuting our startup at TC Disrupt. We will talk about Steve Jobs.
Lorin Kalisky
I'm a Paris-based entrepreneur in the Bay Area for just a few weeks, and I'm trying to build my network (and hustle my startup) as much as possible. It's so easy to get lost in the crowd here. I believe I can provide a little signal among a lot of noise. My startup, Zenlist is a compelling offer in a large, very distruptable space (classifieds). Plus, I'm an Apple fanboy too. ;-)
Brenton Gieser
You have an awesome name...my name isn't to shabby either :). I want to meet the person who can crank out 2,000 word on demand everyday (I find that incredible). Lastly, my company JoynIn (in beta soon) is merging group dynamics and loyalty in the local space. We are making a very compelling truly social play in online to offline. Would love share and get advice.
M S
of a Simple to use Online Security App & Plugins for Outlook and Gmail to show you if any Links within any Website or Email are Malware/Virus infested & whether the sender of an E-Mail is a 419 Scammer or not & if your Email is safe we will show you your contacts Social Profile right inside your inbox.You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do in realtime
Rosanita Ratcliff
November marks the 30th anniversary of my first open heart surgery at 2 years old. In honor of this, I'm giving micro-loans and donating money to various companies each month via crowd-funding sites. To decide who gets donations of $30, I'm crowd-sourcing votes using social media.
Bernie Maloney
he'll want to see the same clues I do that lead to Apple introducing a TV, not a device or set top box (a bump in a pipe/cord), an honest to god, full consumption device. Oh, and the ecosystem beyond it for consumption.
Karim Guessous
I would be interested in hearing about what goes on in the mind of someone that spends most of his time reporting and opinionating. I would love to hear about the journey, the letdowns and the excitement thereof.
Augusto Cesar de Camargo
I created 8 Startups in Brazil! My 9th will be really a breakthru ;-)
Joel Vergun
I have a company that raises money for community organizations and worthy causes when people visit participating local businesses. The business gets more customers because organizations like churches and school groups send their people to them. We make pledging money to worthy causes more effective use of a merchant's advertising budget, and keep consumers' money working in their local communities
Karthik Manimaran
its a dream come true for me personally as am his big fan. In addition I'd love to get his thoughts on our game changing location based product in the professional networking space that's going to kick LinkedIn's *** and convince him to be the first to talk about it.
shaun porcar
Because AAPL should be the bank that bails out the US Govt ;) and because oLyfe is an incredible new social media search and discovery engine designed to visually organize what people share across popular social media platforms. Google indexed the web. Facebook indexed the social graph. oLyfe indexes the social web.
Andy Sparks
I'd buy him a beer, and if, by the time he finished it, he thought it was a waste of his time I'd buy him another. Our team does mobile medical / health applications and we are trying to keep people healthy, get them well again, and cut costs.
Anish P
I want to show him how TESTONIX adds value for working professionals preparing for a graduate university program. Testonix is Learning Platform for Standardized Test Preparation and provides a Study Network to connect students with similar goals. We help them overcome the motivation problem and also counsel them on the admission process to get admitted into their dream school.
Ronald Brown
We have technology to turn the PC business around and undo the damage done by tablets. There's a hardware modification: we embed small displays in the tops of keys on the keyboard so they are interactive. That's easy -- Foxconn has already vetted manufacturing. PCs are now much more engaging and brands can generate significant added revenue through the sales of apps and advertising. Unitedkeys.com
Kimberly Dillon
I want to talk about an audience that is often overlooked - women/housewives/minorities. And no not in some affirmative action way, but to show that the new long tail is in overlooked demographics. My start up with a little less than a sentence got 75K fans on FB. We are a pandora for beauty site- product reviews based on reviews from similarly "typed women".
Jonathan Beer
I'm a rising college student and it would be awesome to meet people of his stature in the tech world.
Kevin Dodson
We are about to launch a new social search engine and he would be a great journalist to cover it. In stealth for two years, we believe it will be the new paradigm for searching social content. We are about to launch and he can be the first one to see it before our public launch! http://www.yapmap.com.
Michael Yuen
We both moved from Hollywood to Silicon Valley. I wrote a romantic comedy that won best pitch for a feature film at Sundance and had Yuen WooPing and Brett Ratner attached... Now I'm developing a Social Video App that will rock the social media market. You will be the first to see this. I will give you exclusive.
Shan S
I am going to launch a app which is going to change browsing :) My app would have less physical effects on the user unlike other browsers..
Spencer Yang ZiJian
our startup is looking to him to kill our ideas for improvement. I am a young punk from Singapore. The startup that I have co-founded is a online illustrations and design store that will allow youths and home owners to color their homes with affordable pieces. We are aimed at the Singaporean, Chinese and USA markets. Our USA partners has proven traction records.
Schlomo Rabinowitz
He has sat at my family's Passover table and butchered all the Hebrew words. For that, he owes me, my family, and my heritage a sit-down. He should also pay for the beers.
Ben Hall
I am not sure if I want to meet with MG. Why would I want to? MG is going to get something out of meeting me. probably an article? What am I going to get? A fun experience is probably the least thing I will get, so I guess I would like to meet MG.
I want to grow my business, that's why I want to meet MG. But he is going to want to meet me because I am Benerino! It will be fun if we meet
Miranda McCurlie
I am a Canadian with a ton of personality that will not only foster an amazing relationship with MG BUT I bring a TON of questions.... Everyone loves a Question Queen with spunk - come on! (p.s. I feel this is a great reason to meet everyone on this panel!)