Nominations for Crunchies Awards now open
We’re pleased to announce that we’re now taking nominations for the inaugural 2007 Crunchies Awards.
Together GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, TechCrunch and VentureBeat have devised the Crunchies as a way to recognize the year’s most creative business and tech accomplishments of start-ups and the people behind them.
We’ve created twenty award categories.
We want your input. We invite you, the community, to submit your favorite companies and products for consideration.
Read the the official rules and fine print. Nominations will be open through midnight PST Wednesday, December 12. Finalist voting will open Thursday, December 13 and run for approximately one month before the awards ceremony on Friday, January 18 in San Francisco. Make sure to grab a badge to put on your site to encourage readers to nominate you.
The final award winners will be determined based on the popular votes received through website voting. The award winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony to be held Friday, January 18 in San Francisco. Stay tuned for further details.
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
