DiggのファウンダーKevin Rose、Founders FundのパートナーSean Parker、そしてイスラエル屈指のエンジェル投資家Yossi Vardiが、第3回TechCrunch50カンファレンスのエキスパート・パネルに帰ってくる。9月14～15日に、サンフランシスコで開催される。われわれが集めたエキスパートたちが、当日デビューするスタートアップ50社を審査し、グループ毎に行われる壇上デモについて、一社ずつ討論する。Yossi、Sean、Kevinの3名は昨年も参加したエキスパートで、多くの要望を受けてRoelof Botha、 Marc Andreessen、Marissa Mayerらと共に今年も帰ってくる。新規、再登場ともに、すばらしいエキスパートの面々を揃えるつもりで、今後数週間のうちに追加の審査員を発表する予定だ。

TechCrunch50でデビューして、壇上で専門のアドバイザー相手に売り込みしたいという新しいスタートアップがいたら、6月30日（米国時間）までに申請書類を提出してほしい。もう明日の晩だ。（50社が決まるまでの間は申請を受け付けるが、期限内に申し込んだ会社を先にレビューする）。

本カンファレンスの詳細はこちら。TechCrunch50は、2日間に50社の新しいスタートアップがデビューするアクション満載のカンファレンスで、会場は昨年2000人近い参加者を収容した巨大かつ美しい施設、San Francisco Design Center。

イベントのチケットはこちらで購入できる。協力：Eventbrite（6月30日までは、特別早割あり）。

詳しくはTechCrunch50ブログで。

【日本語版編集部より】日本からの参加も歓迎。昨年のTechCrunch50 2008には、日本から3社が参加しました。

【以下、原文のまま】

	Kevin Rose Kevin Rose is the founder and chief architect of Digg. Kevin started Digg in September 2004 as a personal project. His initial idea was to conduct a social experiment in how masses of users could control and promote news and other content on the Web, without external editorial control. After a very short time, he realized the power of his idea, as Digg was becoming a resource for breaking news stories and developed a strong user following. Kevin is also a co-founder of the Internet Television Network Revision3 where as a member of the board he provides strategic direction to the company. CrunchBase profile.
	Sean Parker Sean Parker is the co-founder and Chairman of Causes on Facebook and MySpace, a new network that aims to enable large-scale political and social activism on the Internet. Sean is also a Managing Partner at The Founders Fund, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco . Previously, Sean was the co-founder of the category defining Web ventures Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. At Napster, Sean helped to design the Napster client software and led the company’s initial financing and strategy. Under Sean’s leadership, Napster became the fastest adopted client software application in history. Following Napster, Sean co-founded and served as President of Plaxo, where he pioneered the viral engineering techniques used to deploy Plaxo’s flagship smart address book product, ultimately acquiring more than 15 million users. In 2004, Sean left Plaxo to become the founding President of Facebook, one of the most rapidly growing sites on the Internet today. Sean sits on the boards of several private companies. CrunchBase profile.
	Yossi Vardi Yossi Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur most famous for being the original investor in ICQ – the first Internet-wide instant messaging system. Vardi has invested in over 50 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, cleantech, and others. Vardi has been an active civil servant in Israel through projects involving energy and infrastructure. He also co-founded Alon, an Israeli oil company. Vardi acted as an advisor to the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program on issues of energy in the developing world. Vardi has received many awards including The Prime Minister Award, The Industry Award, Entrepreneur of the Year (Tel Aviv University), and the CEO!’s Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame from the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. CrunchBase profile.

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（翻訳：Nob Takahashi）