We opened up nominations for the upcoming Crunchies Awards a week ago. In that week, over 13,000 nominations have been cast, for thousands of startups and products.
Nominations stay open until midnight December 12. At that time, we’ll take a day or two to tally the results, remove any spam and fraudulent votes, and the top five nominees in each category will go up for a general vote. The winners will be announced on January 18 at a ceremony at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
Remember that some of the awards are specific to new 2007 products startups. Others (most of them) are more general and aren’t tied to the launch date of the company.
Tickets will be made available soon. The theater holds nearly 1,000 people, and there will be a big party afterwards.
The competition would not be possible without our sponsors. Thanks to Sun Microsystems Business Analytics, Microsoft and Charles River Ventures for sponsoring the Crunchies. Contact us if you’re interested to sponsor an award or other part of the evening festivities.
If you are a startup and want to encourage your users to nominate you, blog and website badges are available here.
And rememeber that this is not solely a TechCrunch effort. We are partnering with GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb and VentureBeat on this as well.
First post!!!!
… sorry, had to.
13000? there are over 13000 startups start this year???
sigh.
Mike,
I’ve been an avid reader of TechCrunch since the beginning. It’s a staple of my daily reading and an irreplaceable source for tracking start-ups, tech news, and innovation. I nominate TechCrunch for a Crunchie!
Keep up the great work, and how about we organize a TechCrunch meetup in Toronto!
Thanks,
Jaafer
@sd – since Mike provided an understandable sigh….that’s 13000 nominations…a startup can get more than one nomination.
…Mike – the Crunchies are a great way to generate some buzz for the participating companies. I just couldn’t resist the ‘First Post’. I owe you another pint of Guinness.
@sd no, there were 13,000 nomination across the 20 categories. Only one category requires that the company was founded in 2007 – ‘Best new start-up of 2007′
13K is alot to shuffle through – 1K is Alot even.
lol – no Clone better win!
The Ballmer toy action figure! my vote
Michael,
Would be great if there was a bit more transparency in the nomination process.
The official rules state that once initial nominations close, the committee will choose 5 finalists for each category, “based on the quantity, quality and breadth of submissions received”. As a nomination only requires a domain name to be posted, i see now way for your committee to judge the quality of the submissions received. In regards the breath of submissions, bar IP tracking, what are you guys planning on doing, using supernatural powers to determine breadth?
As someone who is ‘competing’ to become a finalist – transparency would be most welcome.
dazed and confused – IP tracking is of course the first line of defense. Common sense will also be applied.
Michael,
Common sense being used gives me comfort – would expect nothing less.
I can now go back to watching my dixV of 24 series 6 , safe in the knowledge that i will be making a trip to San Fran early next year…YIPPEEE!
(how come Jack Bauers phone never needs recharging and he never needs to take a leak?)
Hope：U and Your friends will win the competition ……..
haha ……. if U win ……. remember to hold the award and take Photos for Us ….. Remember to post the photos on your own BLOG ar ……^-^
Thx for Sharing，Michael！
Best wishes
★☆★☆★
based in common sense , vote for http://www.wishdone.com . it has to succeed for the best of all of us!
How long have the Crunchies been in existence? I like it
http://www.whatshottoday.com
http://www.MaxBucks.com
I nominated Zoho in the Read/Write thread. Do I have to nominate them again on the other site?
13K My god.
There are 13K people like us …….. hmmmmm….
Mike, When are you going to share the 13K sites . or Do we have to wait till Dec 12th ?
Cheers, Nag
Nag – around Dec. 13 we’ll announce the finalists and everyone will be able to vote for the winners.
Hey, are there any companies out there that would pay me to vote for them? I would love the extra cash.
sincerely,
angela hayden
art goddess
There should be four options to choose the best: http://vote.cru...techcrunch.com/
BEST USE OF VIRAL MARKETING – A CLEAR WINNER
We spell Commotion with one “m” as in The Comotion Group. Please remember this when nominating us 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.
Are there 13.000 start ups this year?
Shameless self promotion – Give us the chance to be ‘likely to make the world a better place’. Please!
http://www.yubliss.com
No!
I want to make the world a better place and I don’t care who I have to destroy to do it…
LOL @ john. i thought crunchies were those little deep fried crumbs you got at long john silvers. my arteries hurt just thinking about them. but seriously, i just started up on this blog a couple of days ago and it’s going to go in my daily reading folder at work.
Mike, Thanks for your work and all involved. Its a win-win for all.
Our site hopes to introduce a new system of rating and pricing video games. I think we are all outraged with the credit the local video store offers. Its time for an alternative to this approach. Considering the Multi Billion dollar market video games have become the potential for savings and profit is huge.
Please Nominate http://www.myzwap.com for “Best Business Model”
Thanks
Happy Holidays
I was hoping there would be a category for the multi-billion dollars travel industry… I guess we’re just going to have to be the best start-up of 2007 then…
I’m looking forward to seeing all the other great web 2.0 out there… in the meanwhile, nominate us
http://www.yowtrip.com