About Entrepreneurs: Competing Tradeshows Highlight Best Tech Startups
| from Scott Allen This week, two competing tradeshows, DEMOfall 08 and TechCrunch 50, featured the official product launches of some 200 or so tech startups. Come see what's new and hot, plus learn more about why so many companies are launching at conferences. Also this week: the hot "Off=On" and "On=Off" trend that's driving new business ideas, marketing techniques, merchandising and more. |
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DEMO, TechCrunch50 Highlight New Tech Startups This week could aptly be described as "Battle of the Tech Startup Conferences". Between the two of them, DEMOfall 08 TechCrunch50 highlighted over 220 new companies and products. Have fun checking out the new products, and also learn why conferences are becoming the hot place to launch companies. | | Trends: Off = On, On = Off My favorite trendwatching source, the aptly-named Trendwatching.com, has a particularly insightful briefing this month on the Off = On trend. The briefing looks at how concepts from the online world are being brought into the offline world and vice-versa in so many areas -- art, fashion, home decor, retail displays, et al. | 2008 Inc. 5000 Demonstrates Diversity, Stretches Boundaries The Inc. 5000 is an annual listing of the fastest-growing (note: not necessarily the largest, just the fastest-growing) private companies in America. If you think companies can't grow in this sluggish economy, or that only a few industries are hot at the moment, think again. The average three-year growth on this year's list is a whopping 334 percent. | Sponsored Links | | | | Advertisement |