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Live Blog: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Says Music Service Now Has 320,000 Paid Subscribers

I’m here at the last keynote of SXSW, where Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is being interviewed by Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk. Ek will likely be revealing some new announcements about Spotify during this interview. I’ll be live blogging my notes below.
Van Buskirk kicked off the keynote by asking how many people in the audience [...]

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Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Wait, Did Ev Williams Just Interview Umair Haque? Weird.

When SXSW sets up its festival, you have to assume they want the best and most engaging keynotes possible. If the public reaction to Umair Haque’s interview of Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is any indication, they failed. Badly.
I wish I could take credit for the title here, but it is all Mike Monteiro, appropriately, by [...]

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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

“No Excuses” For European Startups And More Videos And Photos From Plugg 2010

Last Thursday saw the third edition of Plugg, a conference I started in my home country Belgium back in 2008 that essentially aims to launch and inspire European tech entrepreneurs and advance the startup ecosystem in these parts. The event is closely tied to TechCrunch, with myself as lead organizer and TechCrunch Europe editor Mike [...]

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Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments