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What was hot at the TechCrunch Munich event?

Source: The Next Web

Oct 20, 2009

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Today we spent the day at the Techcrunch Europe event, co-hosted by Sun Microsystems at their offices in Munich. Mike Butcher, TechCrunch Europe’s Editor, was on hand to take about 150 attendants through a few presentations and 12 startup pitches.

The breakroom had a tweeter wall with live reaction of the attendance –hashtag #tcm09, check it out.

The first to present was Mathias Roth from iOpus.com. His message was simple: if you’re a startup that wants to get attention, be the first to develop for a new platform, any new platform. The rational: if you are among the first, chances are, that you will stick. Look at the top 50 add-ons to Firefox today: half of them were introduced within the year Firefox made its add-ons development platform available. Mathias’ recommendation: get on Chrome’s bandwagon and develop your add-on now – there are only about 25 Chrome add-ons today. Even though Chrome’s add-ons website will not come before the end of the year, it will pay to be among the first.

Next speaker was Rainer Maerkle from Holtzbrinck Ventures. He gave a great t

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