It didn't take long for them to take the opportunity in strengthening the presence of 'Silicon Valley' towards these countries. As media company, TechCrunch did a great job in gathering the support from many governments in emerging markets to support their prospectus startup ventures to attend and exhibit their products and/or services in the event. Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and Gree Inc. Since this is an event established by one of the most prominent media in tech industry, not only that your venture was put alongside the powerful list of the 'big boys' that became the speakers and judges, but also the list of the investors and sponsors that came from prominent VC's e.g. It was quite obvious if you are an entrepreneur in tech industry, you don't want to miss the opportunity to be acknowledged by the global startup environment, especially from the investor and media perspectives. Here are some of the takeout from wandering around for 2 hours on the last day of the event. *Curious on how I can get free entrance? Ask yourself how you can get free entrance into any conference in Kemayoran or JCC :D #IndonesianStyle If you are a student -like my friend here, Adam Jaya Putra, a Sloan Fellow of Stanford GSB- you can get 90% discount though, if not, you can choose between paying for the entrance fee or paying your wife's return flight ticket :p You know how much the entrance fee would have cost you for a 3-day-event? Okay, it's 'only' $ 2,995 per person. On the other hand, I was quite lucky since I got the chance to attend the event FREE OF CHARGE and take the best out of the remainders. Rather unlucky since it is the last day of the event and I already missed some essential keynotes made by the invited speakers. I considered myself as both lucky and unlucky by arriving at the TechCrunch event on the last day. The event was located in Concourse Exhibition Center, a well-renovated ex-warehouse building in 8th Brannan street, downtown San Francisco. ![]() In general, TechCrunch event was like TechInAsia's StartupAsia 2012 in Jakarta couple of months ago, but in much much larger scale from almost all perspectives. As soon as I arrived in San Francisco around 1.30pm PST on September 12th 2012, I immediately rushed downtown, to TechCruch Disrupt 2012, one of the most awaited tech startup events in 2012, created by TechCrunch. Endeavor, TechCrunch, SalesForce and Gogobot. I was humbly welcomed by several prominent events by some big names in global Tech industry, i.e. ![]() This journey was my first time to United States and it definitely was a remarkable one. This is part two of Jaka Wiradisuria's journal of his recent trip to Silicon Valley.
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