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• Rumormonger: Who's not coming to Demo? The startup that got kicked out

  Published: September 24, 2007, 12:57 am

  Tags: Chris Shipley, Demo, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, Rumormonger, Techcrunch40

  hear that Chris Shipley and the rest of the Demo conference team are coming down hard on companies who violate their exclusive contract. A tipster "has it on on good authority" that one presenting company has been "yanked off the stage" at tomorrow's fall Demo conference in San Diego, because it demo'd its wares at Michael Arrington and Jason

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• Capitalism: Why Demo's conference beat TechCrunch40

  Published: September 28, 2007, 11:05 am

  Tags: Bill Gross, Capitalism, Chris Shipley, Conferences, Demo, Feature, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, Overture, Startups, Techcrunch, Techcrunch20, Techcrunch40, Top

  experienced Demo organizer Chris Shipley's picks were focused on useful improvements to existing technology, not gimmicky new ideas. Arrington and Calacanis launched TechCrunch40 because they felt that it was somehow wrong for conferences to charge startups to present. Nonsense, of course. I think that the fact that Demo charges presenters --

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• This must be reuse-your-email week [Great Moments In Public Relations]

  Published: November 28, 2007, 5:54 pm

  Tags: Chris Shipley, Demo, Great Moments In Public Relations

  of DEMO Executive Producer Chris Shipley, I would like to invite you to attend DEMO 08, in Palm Desert CA, January 28 - 30. [...] Please join our exclusive audience of VCs, gurus, entrepreneurs and business executives as we spend two full days identifying industry trends and peeking into the future of technology innovation. We have a

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• Demo organizer makes nice with accused plagiarist Jason Calacanis [Nerdfight]

  Published: August 11, 2008, 9:10 pm

  Tags: Nerdfight, Chris Shipley, Deb Mcalister Holland, Demo, Jason Calacanis, Techcrunch, Techcrunch50

  we got this email from Chris Shipley, who has run the Demo conference for years. Short version: The text from which writer Deb McAlister-Holland claims Calacanis copied exactly 1,893 words may have been in a newsletter sent out prior to 1996. McAlister-Holland claimed her piece "was on the Demo website for three years," but no one's turned

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• Plagiarism charge rocks TechCrunch, bores Valleywag [Nerdfight]

  Published: August 11, 2008, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Nerdfight, Chris Shipley, Deb Mcalister Holland, Demo, Jason Calacanis, Techcrunch, Techcrunch50

  as an Web 2.0 counter to Chris Shipley's firmly established Demo event, which itself was created as an antidote to previous tech shows. Both TechCrunch and Demo unveil new products and companies live onstage. Demo charges companies to participate. TechCrunch does not, and claims Demo is a "payola" scheme. Got all that? Great, now you'll

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