Disrupt pioneering competition champion status: Win is just the beginning

What about winning the TechCrunch Disrupt venture contest? The 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt Congress is getting better this week, and a few days later will be the birth of a new "entrepreneurial champion." A pioneering race like the TechCrunch Disrupt Congress can make startups a big hit, but can this effect bring lasting benefits? To be sure, a champion can give startups the benefit of real money-50,000 dollars for TechCrunch Disrupt Congress, but can the competition really help them succeed? Does it really mean that startups win the championship of an important game? To answer these questions, let's take a look at the performance of the recent four TechCrunch Disrupt conference champions, and see what they are doing now and what it means to win a startup competition. ÜBERCONFERENCE2012 year disrupt General Assembly New York station champion: überconference Brief introduction: The era of audio telephone conferencing is not gone forever, born from the incubator Firespotter Labs's überconference once again raised the appeal of the conference call. The start-up company changed the way it used to be obnoxious (like "Can you send me a message?"). My cell phone is open! , adding visual controls that allow you to do some useful things with your mouse and keyboard during a telephone conference that lasts hours, making the audio phone again popular with users. Status: One months after Uberconfernce won the TechCrunch Disrupt convention, Firespotter Labs from well-known VCs-Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) And Google's venture capital Google Ventures to finance 15 million of dollars. The company is currently actively recruiting talent, mainly engineers. Uberconfernce's iOS, Android, and paid editions will soon be available to generate revenue through its stable array of features, and the outlook looks bright. Shaker2011 disrupt General Assembly San Francisco station champion: Shaker Introduction: Shaker founder believes that users will be in virtual space (such as virtual bar) linger. If you think there are some similarities between Shaker and Second life, that's right, but the founders at TechCrunch Disrupt Convention and the VC fund that invested 18 million of dollars into shaker Shaker's function is by no means limited to chatting. Status quo: In most "Avatar" chat rooms, users are anonymous, they will soon be transformed from "social exploration" to a player who is only playing a game. Shaker also makes it impossible for users to be anonymous: tying them to Facebook accounts, helping them meet people with common interests, and building real relationships. Some sponsors (mainly bands) will sponsor the chat room, and Shaker will give full play to the advantages of attracting users to meet people with common interests other than music. However, Shaker is still like a "ghost domain" for the time being. As of September 10, there were two major events on Shaker's calendar: One was a party to the fighters band, received 226 responses, and a "hangout" event in the next Sunday, which received 37 responses. Despite this, Live Nation has signed with Shaker to become its promotional partner, which will help Shaker attract a large number of users to achieve real take-off. Getaround2011 year disrupt General Assembly New York station champion: Getaround Profile: Getaround is a personalized car rental service. Car owners can list the time to not use their own cars, so that other people who need to rent by the hour, the latter can be issued up to five requests, the first answer to the rental of the vehicle. Rental prices include rental costs, background investigation fees and insurance. Car owners will be charged monthly, the lessee will be the most cost-effective way to use cars, Getaround only charge intermediary fees, but also do not need to buy their own car business. This concept creates a three-win situation. Status quo: So far, Getaround's business seems to be growing. The company has signed up with thousands of owners and is expanding its team to enter new markets. Getaround recently launched a long-term leasing service called "Getaway", which allows people who need to rent a car for a week or more. But the car rental market has a long way to go before it becomes a mainstream city service. QWIKI2010 year disrupt General Assembly New York Station champion: Qwiki Introduction: Qwiki is a flexible and convenient online application, so that users can create video demo files in their own browsers. The Qwiki interface is very simple and can even allow a "rookie" to make a very fluent video in just five minutes. Status quo: Qwiki is tailored for school slide lectures or fashion events, but as some have pointed out, it has not yet become the kind of revolutionary application that its founders had promised. So far, Qwiki has not brought disruptive changes to its industry, but its recent links with more mainstream media may have helped to change that situation. It is easy to see from the above examples that even the hottest startups have time to change the world or gain 1 billion of dollars. However, at least so far, the four TechCrunch Disrupt's champion is still running-not every startup can do it. At the same time, although some startups raise some money, none of them has the power to change the world or bring huge rewards to its founders and investors. In addition, there are a number of start-up companies, although they have not won the entrepreneurial competition, but the performance is beyond the winner of the competition in the enterprise. (Qing Chen)