Nominate Top Startups For The Crunchies
Michael Arrington
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The Crunchies, a startup award competition that we are coordinating with three other blog networks - GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb and Venturebeat - is now live and taking nominations through midnight pst, Wednesday, December 12.
There are twenty award categories, including “Best Overall,” to recognize the year’s most innovative technical, creative and business accomplishments of key companies, products and people. The finalists for each category will be determined based on reader nominations, followed by reader voting. The awards will be given at a ceremony (and party) in San Francisco on January 18 at the Herbst Theater. It’s an awesome venue to recognize the best tech accomplishments of 2007.
If you are a startup that would like to be nominated, you can link to any specific category and/or put up a “nominate us” badge. If you’d like to attend, stay tuned. Ticket details will be available shortly. The theater holds approximately 900 people.
Contact us if you’re interested to sponsor an award or other part of the evening festivities. It’s sure to be a great evening.
See additional coverage from our co-hosts:
Read/WriteWeb
Venture Beat
GigaOm
Pretty short nomination period.
im still interested in the Pink Shirt Guy startup you mentioned in one of your other articles. that has be baffled.
what is considered a startup? is facebook one?
i will nominate facebook. Zuck, remember this favour i did for u .
I think I can figure out where “The Crunchies” came from, but don’t your co-hosts have something to say about it? And isn’t there a more formal option (or maybe you’re giving out Moon Men-like awards too).
Just a thought.
Go http://techwatching.com! (submitting to best bootstrapped)
How about Facebook Platform?
Facebook Platform needs a complete rehaul and must redefine itself. For proof check out the Top 10 Most Awful Facebook Apps:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articl.....ndex.jhtml
“Apps” will be the death of Facebook. There I said it!
Need to think how to position companies based on the TC/RWW/GO and the separate yet linked VB audience. Not the normal consumer based audience. For example I have a couple that I can think of for 3 of the categories but I doubt this collective crowd would agree with my choices. Will be interesting to see if this can reach out to a broader voting audience
Um, in your badge for “Best Bootstrapped” you misspelled bootstrapped as “Boostrapped”
Heh
Also, go http://www.collegebars.net !
Also, be sure to vote for Planaganza.com! We launch on Friday!
Team Planaganza!
Adam, the bagde is being fixed right now. Thanks!
Pedro, the “bagde” heh heh heh.
@10
You might want to make sure your footer links work before trying to plug your crappy site.
@14, they do.
will the committee filter out crappy sites before we vote on? or we have to go thru 2000 sites to decide which one to vote on?
or they don’t care, they just want the buzz? if this is the case, please let me know. So i don’t have to worry much, just vote on anything that comes up on the first page.
sd - yes, fraud nominations will be removed, and only the top 5 in each category will be put up for the final vote.
The only thing about this though, is that rather than getting the “Best” companies in each category, the startups who motivate most of their “friends” to vote will win. It would be better if the judges decided. It would be more fair. Otherwise it seems to be a popularity contest. Whoever gets more people or “friends” to vote for their startup will gets nominated.
I like the creative part.
Isn’t this what the TechCrunch 20/40 was for?
Hmm, is it ok to use semi-automatic voting by putting an imacro to my website? This will make it easier for users to vote, but it is still only one vote per user
I think this is a great idea.
My only concern is that most of TC/GO/RWW/VB readers are from the Bay area and there is a much higher exposure of Bay Area companies, proportionally, on these same blogs, which probably means only Bay Area companies will get nominated.
I hope that you guys take this into consideration and carefully review companies from Seattle, Boston, NY, etc.
… and 1st place goes tooooooo:
drum roll……
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
How can 1st place go to the above nomination when it should be going to http://www.vois.com
Remember, we spell Commotion with one “m” as in The Comotion Group. Remember this when nominating The Comotion Group for the “Best Use of Viral Marketing” category or I will set up another account and flame you. Wait, I might just do that and flame myself.
Shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, you shut up or i will tell that everyone that you’ve already nominated us about 15 times.