Let the trumpets sound and the games begin. It’s not the Oscars or the Olympics, but it is the commencement of the 3rd annual Crunchies Awards that we’re pleased to co-host with GigaOm and VentureBeat (click for their coverage today).
Yes, this is the time of year that we stop bickering among ourselves as bloggers, and come together to honor the startups, products and entrepreneurs who make our lives so much fun.
The Crunchies Awards celebrate the best technology accomplishments of 2009. There are 18 award categories to recognize accomplishments across a variety of fields and roles. And to keep things fresh, we have a few new award categories this year too. Our focus is start-ups, but big companies and products can be winners too.
Starting today, nominate your favorite companies, products and people for consideration in 18 different award categories. Self nominations are welcome. Grab a badge here and get your community to support you for finalist consideration. Nominations are open through midnight pst December 4, 2009 .
The Crunchies Committee will choose five finalists per award category based on the submitted nominations and the company accomplishments made during 2009. Popular voting will open on Monday, December 21 and run through midnight pst, Wednesday January 6, 2010. The full rules are here. You can vote up to once per day in each category.
The Crunchies Awards will be held live Friday January 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. We promise a memorable evening with the community to celebrate our accomplishments of 2009 and look forward to a bright 2010.
Who were some of our winners from 2008?
Facebook won the Crunchie for Best StartUp of 2008.
Friendfeed won the Crunchie for Best New StartUp of 2008.
Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone from Twitter won the Crunchie for Best Founder(s). Pictured here with award benefactor, CRV’s George Zachary.
The full list of finalists and winners from 2008 is here. 2007 is here.
Expect another great after-party to follow in City Hall’s grand Rotunda through midnight with lots more fun and games. As always, sponsors great and small make our events possible, so contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde if you want to participate in the awards ceremony or after-party festivities. If your press, please contact Daniel Brusilovsky for credentials.
Make someone’s year. Nominate a company for a Crunchie today.
Photo credits: Marc Salsberry
We’re going to win this year, I just know it :)
I’ve attended the first two and it was a great time. It feels like everyone is there and the after-party was awesome last year! If you’re not sure about going and you’re in the bay area, just don’t think and buy tickets now.
Can you make sure that something like this: “Facebook won the Crunchie for Best StartUp of 2008.”
Doesn’t repeat itself this year? You pretty much shot all your credibility when you called Facebook a startup.
technically, even skype is a startup again
Yeah but… seriously. He has a point. Facebook is like 5 years old now. I think awards should be limited to companies/products less than 2 years old.
that’s what the best new startup category is for.
Love this conf.
Bug report: dot is not allowed in the company name, although it pops up in the dropbox menu.
Anyone taking bets on how many of the awards are going to go to Spotify ?
wow this past year went by pretty fast
Mike, are you the CEO of TechCrunch I just wanted to make sure before i nominate you :-}
i am certainly not the ceo of techcrunch. that would be heather harde.
I can feel us winning! If you wish, you can vote for Branchr, as best international startup: http://bit.ly/1MRKS7 ;)
Are the richter scales coming this year? (i.e., will there be a portion of the show that is entertaining?)
I certainly hope so.
BTW, If you enjoyed their “Here comes…”, I think you’ll like this cloud parody rap song too – http://bit.ly/cloudvideo
Can we nominate the Crunchpad as best product?
Is there a prize for best Vaporware?
Or is Skype a startover?
Make sure and add this to Caltweet so it can be shared on other social media sites all from one place…
Last year, you had a category called “Most Likely To Make The World A Better Place”
Can’t find it in this year’s nominations. Just wondering if non clean-tech, social entrepreneurship ventures like us have a ‘category’?
Thanks
Please announce a dress code Mike..I hate it when people come to collect awards in their unwashed torn jeans..
people can wear whatever they like. I’ll be black tie, of course. but torn jeans fit in just fine.
You are confusing torn jeans with whiskered jeans. Whiskered jeans appear to be the dress code ;)
It would good to see the “Most Likely To Make The World A Better Place” category again. There are some great start-up companies (non-profit and for profit) that are really making a difference. One that comes to mind is Amsterdam-based, Play It Forward that lets people donate to all sorts of good causes around the world and allows them to watch (via videos and photos) their money actually being put to use towards the success of the goal (i.e. digging clean wells for water in Africa, building schools in 3rd world countries).
It would be great to see a category for start-ups that truly make the world a better place by helping others and/or the environment.
Too bad we can’t vote for the crunchpad….
Dear All,
For Best International Startup 2009:
Enabling Rural,Urban Home based businesses, Service providers and Local stores go Online.
There are more than 3 Billion Rural, Home based businesses, Service providers and local shops in the world. They strive hard to create products and services but unable to reach customer due to lack of marketing skills, No proper channel to reach customer, lack of product identity, high marketing costs.
TheIndiaMarket provides L(Local)-Commerce solution to increase their sales and marketing by providing an online L-commerce store where customers can find them and buy products from local shop or local service providers.
Going live in india by December 1st 2009. By End of 2011 we will implement this concept in 50 countries.
Video demo:
http://www.yout...h?v=B3BLNJeEx5A
If you think this startup can help Rural,Urban Home based businesses, Service providers and Local stores , please go on over and vote :).
http://crunchie...pbmRpYW1hcmtldA
check http://www.theindiamarket.com for more details.
Thanks for your time, and hope that results works in our favor!
regards,
Chandra
CEO
TheIndiaMarket
I’m voting for 6rounds as the Best New Startup of 2009 :)
http://blog.6ro...unds-crunchies/
(and if you haven’t tried out the 6rounds video chat Google Wave extension yet, you should definitely try it!)