Mike Butcher coming to town: Amsterdam TechCrunched

Written on July 17, 2008 – 12:12 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

My vigorous competitor Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK, that other European tech blog, is coming to town. He organizes a meet-up on July 22nd, with the help of eBuddy and E.Factor.

This photo (taken at next08) represents the whole idea of the geeky gathering: drinks, networking, and press coverage (see his right hand).

Anyway, the whole idea of my blogging nemeses coming to my safe haven is a little bit hard too take, so I’ll be staying in Italy for two weeks. Say hi to Mike if you see him though, he actually is a nice guy.

The event is almost sold out, so if you haven’t got one of the free tickets - you’ll have to crash this party. Feel free to approach us for advice, we have a great party-crashing track record.

I hope you like that post!

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is a blogger and journalist, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five.

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3 comments/trackbacks to “Mike Butcher coming to town: Amsterdam TechCrunched”

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By Patrick de Laive on Jul 17, 2008

Don’t worry Ernst, the rest of The Next Web crew will be there and we’ll get Mike drunk to get some juicy details out of him about what he thinks of you :)

Looking forward to the party.

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By Mike Butcher on Jul 17, 2008

Hey Ernst! Think you can get away that easily?! I’ll find you… sooner.. or later… ;-)

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