TechCrunch20 - A Golden Opportunity For Startups

Twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will demo their products in the TechCrunch20 conference this September in San Fransisco. The conference was announced earlier this year and is still open to any startup that will be ready to present in time for the conference. The only condition is that the product or service has not been announced anywhere else before. This adds a nice “cutting-edge” flair to the event…

For the 20 startups selected this is a golden opportunity to get up close and personal with leading professionals in the industry. More importantly, it will put the chosen startups in a position to select the investment they wish to take, rather than hungrily seeking investment.

A team of twenty experts will help select the final 20 startups to present at TechCrunch20. These are the 5 of the panel members:

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail.

Marc Andreessen is the co-founder of Ning, a web application that lets you create your own little social networks. He’s also the co-founder and chief technical mind behind Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser.

Roelof Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital . Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY) and worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Caterina Fake the co-founder of Flickr

Brad Garlinghouse is SVP, Communications & Communities at Yahoo!

Here are the rest of the TechCrunch20 panel members.

Good luck to those of you who decide to go for it!