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31 Jan, 2007

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michael-arrington-disruptArrington and Calacanis announce the conference, which is designed to allow startups to demonstrate their product for free.

Jason and I are going to do something a lot different than the pay-to-demo model. The TechCrunch20 conference will be a two day event, held this fall (more details soon), where twenty hot startups will demo their new products—and they don’t pay a dime to do this.