The week ends and another round of TechCrunch Winners hits the Marketplace... The conference unveiled an impressive lineup of newcomers. the $50k grand prize went to "Yammer", which is, according to TechCrunch, “
Twitter with a business model.”
The Company that seemed to be the overall crowd favorite (and in my opinion should have won) was one of the very last to present, the Company
GOODGUIDE, has put together a team of scientists and technologists, and compiled product information from hundreds of sources, that could be used to shed light on the lesser known aspects of products and how they're made...
Founder and CEO Dara O'Rourke's presentation left the crowd of 1500 and four judges on stage in awe, what seemed to be an incredible idea was beginning to sink in with everyone that its time had come, and it appeared that this amazing new company's birth was the "grande finale" of TC50!
Judges Jeff Weiner, Sean Parker, Don Dodge and Loic LeMeur, were duly impressed... Weiner was "blown away" and Parker seemed to freeze during the site navigation demo and literally stare at the presentation monitor.
When asked why this hadn't been done before, O'Rourke remarked they were perhaps the only ones crazy enough to take on the challenge. Everyone in the room was glad that they were crazy enough to try this, as TechCrunch puts it, "this is a company that everyone seemed to agree should just exist".
GoodGuide took 2nd, but left everyone at TC50 feeling that they had just witnessed the launch of a GREAT Company!
Video from the presentation can be found here:
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