{"id":337,"date":"2008-05-28T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T14:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-05-28T23:19:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T14:19:24","slug":"applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications from Japanese companies welcome for Techcrunch 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 700 web and web-related companies from all over world handed in an application for last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch40.com\/2007\/index.php\">Techcrunch 40 event<\/a>, organized by the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\">Tech blog<\/a> of the same name.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/techcrunch50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-338\" title=\"techcrunch50\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/techcrunch50-400x85.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis year, the competition is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch50.com\/\">Techcrunch 50<\/a> and it is again organized by Techcrunch USA. It will be conducted from September 8-10th in San Francisco. Following the absence of Japanese web companies in last year&#8217;s event, potential participants from this country are encouraged to take part this year.<br \/>\nMy friend Umihiko Namekawa from <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/\">Techcrunch Japan<\/a> asked me to publish the announcement on Asiajin as well, on top of his <a href=\"http:\/\/socweb.blog80.fc2.com\/blog-entry-205.html\">article<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/\"><\/a>he wrote today in his blog. Asiajin thinks it is a great chance for entrepreneurs in Japan to challenge such a competition.<br \/>\nIn the light of the tight time schedule, professional support will be provided by Techcrunch Japan for all companies interested in this initiative.<br \/>\nMore information (in Japanese) can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/tc50\/\">here on the official site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 700 web and web-related companies from all over world handed in an application for last year&#8217;s Techcrunch 40 event, organized by the famous Tech blog of the same name. This year, the competition is called Techcrunch 50 and it is again organized by Techcrunch USA. It will be conducted from September 8-10th in San&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Applications from Japanese companies welcome for Techcrunch 50<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1102,3632],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-event","tag-techcrunch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}