It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has gone by since we gave out those crazy gorilla awards to the best startup and product successes in Silicon Valley and around the world. Some of the photos from last year are here.
The Crunchies are back. We are once again partnering with some of our favorite blogs – thank you to co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat (click the links for their announcements). Thanks as well to 1938 Media, our video production partner (see their first video below in the comments).
The Awards Ceremony will be held on Jan. 9, 2009, 7:30 pm at the Herbst Theater across the street from City Hall in San Francisco. The reception will follow and tickets will be released in December.
What we need from you right now: please nominate your favorite startups and products in fifteen categories. And remember, you’re judging them based on their 2008 performance. Nominations may be made until December 10, 2008 Midnight PST.
On December 15 we’ll begin the final voting process for the winners.
If you are a startup and want to encourage your users to vote for you, you can create a customized badge here.
“Steve Jobs” accepting an award for the iPhone last year:
Richter Scales perform “Here Comes Another Bubble” at the Crunchies last year:
Awesome, I’m excited. Just nominated Quizzle (http://quizzle.com) for a few of them. Thanks
xoopit.com
jingproject.com
16bugs.com
shrinktheweb.com
jibjab.com
playfish.com
Hmmm, time to decide which applies to Twitturly. Are we “Best Bootstrapped Startup” or “Best Time Sink Site”?
You Decide – Please vote for us!
Best Time Sink Site: http://crunchie...amp;category=10
Best Bootstrapped Startup: http://crunchie...&category=2
Where’s the URL for Best Leech?
Or the Best Sarcastic Remark?
Last year was great – I’m looking forward to it again. Any volunteer opportunities?
Yes! Please email heather at techcrunch, and we’d love to have your support.
and Phillip Defranco http://www.yout...om/user/sxephil who you all shouldn’t frickon get on TC. The guy does 5 vids a week 300k views. The guy is a star who techie too and it would expand your audience to non-tech viewers if you got him to do a weekly tech 5 video. How many people bought the iphone app he plays in his wed video…
bootstrap – lesseverything.com
design – 280slides.com
mobile – taptaptap.com
internation – popego.com
clean tech – tesla
time sink – hackerne.ws
better place – kiva.org
founder- ev williams
ceo – steven bristol
overall – mint
MyLocator – bootstrapped nomine #1
proof that for less than 100,000 g’s a person can create what I consider the greatest potential upside in the history of the internet.
StartupLocator.com – start your engines.
I think your TC spam has more than counted you out of any potential award from here…thats assuming you even have a decent product which spammers don’t usually have.
if i was a spamming i would not be allowed at TC. duh. put your money where your mouth is.
ChemistryLocator.com – substance is everything
You are spamming every TC article, how you haven’t been banned from commenting yet is beyond me.
Pay the $$$ to enter though, i’m sure it will be a sound investment for you…
oh yeah. you spam.
ummm yeah… I just checked out that site and… yeah…. that is pretty bad… that could possibly be the biggest waste of 100G’s I have ever seen… better then losing it in market though I guess… biggest upside in internet history.. that is the dumbest statement I have heard in November… possibly in 2008… but keep on keepin on with your blinding optimism… and keep throwing away your clearly non tech saavy friends and families cash…
What stops this simply being a popularity contest of who can brown nose the most? I don’t see how merit is being factored into this, and thus just stinks like a sham.
As are all awards, they’re subjective.
But look at last years winners, they all had merit and if TC did give all the prizes to their mates/investments it would be obvious and all credibility would be lost.
Its in TCs interests to award the top sites, to make their awards meaningful and attract the biggest sponsors.
Being crooked isn’t always in peoples interests, this is one such case.
What he’s saying is that the most popular sites win, instead of most interesting, unique, meaningful, original, ground-breaking, revolutionary, intricate, etc. But then again, there’s nothing wrong with a popularity contest. If you get the traffic and make it to the top of the heap, you deserve your fifteen seconds on stage at the Crunchies.
@ aaron
I think he was insinuating that the people that brown nosed to the TC crew would win, not neccessarily the most popular sites.
#1 Deal.y.zer
Loren will definitely keep it interesting! lol
what well be amazing is one post telling us latest updates about last year winners
Tesla are Tapulous have to be favourites
add your site design in web2.0 standards css gallery.
http://www.csshook.com
thanks
I love the Loren Feldman puppet videos – a riot!
WrapMail was #1 on pitches by a huge margin, why not give them a Crunchy?
Love crunchies, I nominated hellomynameise for the most of them.
good luck E!
-http://www.hellomynameise.com-
i read that as hello mayonaise
I nominate Locater dude, just for the sheer comedy of it.
thanks man. i knew i had a following. your support means alot to me bro.
LaughLocator.com – tickle your inards
He certainly deserves some kind of award for his incessant spamming, inability to spell, and late entry to domain squatting.
How about a special crunchy? Spam Crunchy? Spamola?
Look for TheWebWar to take down the house in the bootstrapped category. Under managed and under-funded is what we’re all about.
Boris
http://www.thewebwar.com
Since when did 100k become boot-strapped…? Let’s lower that figure to 20k and see who’s still on the list.
“You have already nominated!”
So I don’t get to vote because someone with the same IP address as me has already voted?
Time flies! It will be interesting to see the list this year. Always entertaining.
Kevin
http://www.kidsdesk.net
Ah yes the Crunchies. Can’t wait for the list!
Oh btw
Check out http://www.jobstaxi.com
New Jobs. Strands. Carbine Studios. NCsoft.
Well I wish everyone the best of luck! I’m sure some great companies will get the best award around! Our company is to small at current for us to get near a chance of getting an award, but never the less I popped a badge up on MSE360.com
While the 2007 nominee list included Ribbit & GrandCentral, in 2008 Ifbyphone is asking for your nomination for the Best Enterprise Award. This summer, VentureBeat wrote:
“Rivals such as Phonevite, Ribbit, Voicestar and even GrandCentral offer some of the same services that Ifbyphone does, but none have put together the entire suite that the company offers in terms of services.”
To read more and consider voting for Ifbyphone in 2008, please visit:
http://tinyurl....m/why-ifbyphone