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Working in a rich company doesn;t necessarily make one rich..just saying.. - Mahesh CR from Alert Thingy

Yeah, a secretary at Microsoft gets paid the same as one who works for a little 5 person company! etc etc - David Lloyd

And lets be honest Loic, no real person can afford the prices you charge. It's a months payment on a mortgage or a tech conference. Let's get real here Loic. - David Lloyd

Quite right. These people don't appreciate what it actually costs ot produce a quality event. If you want to attend, you pay - otherwise the hall is full of freeloaders - who nobody will want to talk to. I write for The Next Web, and sometimes I am allowed a Press pass, but I know it's an actual COST to the organisers to give me that pass. Stick to your guns Loic! - David Petherick from twhirl

I deserve a free ticket.... even if I can't afford the trip to Paris :( - Isabelle Lopez

A microcosm of what is wrong with many corporations. If only more people stood up and said "no" to them, we'd be much better off. Huzzah to you for doing your part. - Robert Clockedile from twhirl

I don't work at the richest companies; I work at Yahoo! (Um, what is LeWeb?) - Mistletoe Glen

Mark, I understand you find it expensive, like many, but LeWeb is about 1 million euro to produce, a room in Paris for 1500 is about 200K, add 120K for good wifi with a team to monitor it, lots of French food, video, stage production, etc etc etc someone has to pay the bill and we have been doing it for 5 years at breakeven. If I cut more I am taking a personal loss to do it, which I am not ready to do. - Loic Le Meur

Loic, there is something to be said for a very highly produced event and I think your charges take that into account. If your aim is to get only those who have "made it" to attend, I think Le Web achieves that. It might unfortunately also have the consequence of leaving out the those who have everything you want at Le Web except the spare 1100-1800 Euros lying around. But I am sure you have thought of that and know what you are doing. It's your event but I don't think there is cause for being amazed. - Kamath (नमः)

Metta, it is not my goal to get only the 1100 - 1800 euros people, we have many bloggers who will come for free to cover it for example, see below http://climbtothestars.org/archive... - Loic Le Meur from twhirl