http://alexiatsotsis.com/2010/02/18/bitches-in-tech-karaoke/ http://alexiatsotsis.com/2010/02/18/bitches-in-tech-karaoke/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:06:21 +0000 alexia http://alexiatsotsis.com/?p=274

Before you do anything else this morning, VOTE FOR THE WEB2HOS HERE. (Also: Please let me know if you’d like a hi-res version of this ^ stunning piece of Photoshop for fan posters, mugs, baseball caps, etc).

Oh, I think the guys might be doing something also … Hehe, Fivesquare.

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Usually it goes like this; The for the most part power brokers are invited to the tech event. Then the day of, an industrious PR chick, realizing that her own gender is way underrepresented, panics at the thought of “too many dicks on the conference floor” and calls up every woman she knows in the space, begging them to come.

For better or worse this is not the case at Techcrunch50, where women are vastly outnumbered (a big collective reader DUH). If you are a woman at these things you usually fall into one of two types: ballsy journalist or well-manicured PR rep. And you are probably a member of an organization called appropriately, “Girls In Tech.”

Which is why it came as no surprise to me, an L.A. native, when an industrious young start-up founder approached me last night with the hit-on line, “Didn’t I see you last week at “Girls In Tech” Palo Alto?”

You have to hand it to him for trying.

And speaking of trying, the big winner this morning from a news stand point (other than Techcrunch coetrie who broke the Mint news quel surprise) was Cnet’s Caroline McCarthy, who provided an insightful round-up of the morning presenters before the presentation was even over.

And on the analysis bent, The Huffington Post’s Maya Baratz provides a comparison and dissection of Jason Calacanis’ statement that Techcrunch50 is the “Sundance of tech conferences.”

So no you didn’t see us at “Girls In Tech,” You saw us on the Internet, breaking your news and writing these blog posts.