Now About Those Crunchies… - GigaOM says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 pm

[...] Written by Om Malik Monday, December 3, 2007 at 12:00 PM PT Comments (0) Remember the Crunchies, the startup awards we talked about earlier this year that are being organized in partnership with TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat? We have an update for you — dates and awards categories — that is currently available at the Crunchies web site. [...]

Chris says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm

There’s a bug in the badge code with the href’s you are using - e.g. with the bootstrapped category - The badge link links into an ID on the votes page that hasn’t been defined (so the page doesn’t then “jump” to that category).

You should either change the id tag at “vote.crunchies.techcrunch.com” to use “unfunded” or use this URL in your badge code:
http://vote.crunchies.techcrunch.com/#category_bootstrapped

I’m not sure whether similar errors exist for other categories.

Fred Oliveira says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:11 pm

Thanks for the quick notice, Chris. Fixed.

John Crispini says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:24 pm

It says a category is ‘best unfunded startup’ in your rules, yet your badge and nominations have switched it to bootstrapped startup, meaning under 100,000

That number is way too high. It should be closer to 50,000 or under, a few people with good bank accounts can do a lot with 100,000, a couple of kids with no bank accounts spending 20,000 (aka, an UNFUNDED startup) would be much, much more interesting.

Bring that category back!!!

Marcelo Calbucci says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:53 pm

Hey Fred, some of the badges code are using the wrong quotes. Instead of HTML standard quotes is using the extended open/close quotes usually found on text documents.

I think most browsers will handle it correctly, but some custom HTML parsers won’t.

Steve Jabs says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm

Love this! We put http://www.20DC.com in the hat for a few. We also wouldn’t mind seeing that “Unfunded Start-up” category as well. Especially since we are definitely in that category. =P

Glad to see something like this! Thanks to everyone who is putting this together. I feel that it means a lot to more start-ups than just us over at 20DC.

Thanks again!

Nominierung zum Startup des Jahres at six groups blog says:
December 5th, 2007 at 6:23 am

[...] der Jahresrückblicke. Nicht nur Menschen des Jahres werden ausgezeichnet, jetzt gibt es auch die Startups des Jahres. Wir freuen uns, beim heute ausgelobten “Gruenderszene Startup des Jahres” [...]

Breno says:
December 5th, 2007 at 8:37 am

Great notice! Tkanks !

HITECHEASY says:
December 6th, 2007 at 1:10 am

what wonderfull idea!!!
I was waiting for some of this and…if you want a thing look better put it in circle!

GZYN says:
December 6th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

It’s a little ahead of my business plan, but after a couple of days and nights of contemplation I decided that entrepreneurship and innovation is all about calculated risk and timing. I’m all in. http://www.gzyn.com

Thanks for putting this together.

David Scott Lewis says:
December 7th, 2007 at 12:02 am

The problem with this process is that sites still in beta might receive far fewer votes than they deserve. Twine and True Knowledge come to mind.

GZYN says:
December 7th, 2007 at 9:21 am

I had the same concern. GZYN is in beta as well and was launched in August. Moreover, my biz plan calls for a formal press release in January. Hopefully the organizers will define other KPIs in addition to the number of votes and determine a score based on a weighted average of all the KPIs.

RCobo says:
December 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Thanks to everyone involved. We at MyZwap.com are willing to support the Crunchies in any way we can! We can all be winners.

Marcelo says:
December 7th, 2007 at 6:45 pm

The concept is very interesting.

Marcelo

Timur says:
December 8th, 2007 at 3:15 am

Great notice! Tkanks !

CRS says:
December 8th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

Voting will start Monday, December 13 ?????????
Perhaps THURSDAY the 13th…

Charlie Anzman says:
December 9th, 2007 at 6:42 am

Doubt seriously with PubCon and SES distracting a lot of people (not to mention a few others) that the word has gotten out here in time. We’ll do a post. What the heck. Hope it helps!

Ron Kornfeld says:
December 9th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

There is an error in your start date:

“…Voting will start Monday, December 13 and will be open for approximately one month…”

December 10th is Monday this year.

Linda says:
December 11th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

Wonderful concept for the hard work and diligence of new companies. . .and the award site in SF looks perfectly elegant, as well it should be.

Geoffrey Haselhurst says:
December 12th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

HI,
I think this is a great idea. But the time for voting seems very short (we just found out about it with one day to go).
So I wonder why the voting does not run for several months or more (perhaps it will next year?)
Cheers,
Geoff

jonny says:
December 15th, 2007 at 9:24 am

i will love to wine

erica says:
December 28th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

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Ken says:
December 28th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

아니요

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January 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am

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January 12th, 2008 at 3:20 am

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January 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 am

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March 17th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

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April 14th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

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April 14th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

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