The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards

Celebrate The Best Tech Innovations.  My favorite category is “Best Time Sink.”  I will admit that “Best Time Sink” company nominee Pinterest did take a lot of time earlier this year while adding images related to webinars in association with my book, The Webinar Way.  Good news is that Pinterest has become a cottage industry and several new companies have  been created that develop software to streamline the Pinterest experience. 

Some companies nominees and/or people related to a nominee company are noted in more than one Crunchies category. 

The nominees for the 2012 TechCrunch “Crunchies” are listed below:

CEO of the Year
Dick Costolo (Twitter)
Phil Libin (Evernote)
Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!)
Larry Page (Google)
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Founder of the Year
Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia (Airbnb)
Kevin and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)
Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla)
Kevin Systrom (Instagram)
Nir Zuk (Palo Alto Networks)

Best Technology Achievement
Baumgartner Jump
Google Glass
Mars Curiosity
SpaceX docks with International Space Station
Tesla Supercharger Network

Best E-Commerce Application
Fab
Hotel Tonight
Karma/Facebook Gifts
Warby Parker
Zulily

Best Mobile Application
Evernote
Google Maps
Grindr
Instagram
Square

Fastest Rising Startup
Exec
Lyft
Pinterest
Snapchat
Stripe

Best Content Discovery Application
Flipboard
Instapaper
Pinterest
Prismatic
Tumblr

Best Design
Facebook Timeline
Medium
Paper by FiftyThree
Square
Svbtle

Sexiest Enterprise Startup
Asana
Box
Cloudera
Plexxi
Zendesk

Best Education Startup
Codecademy
Coursera
Edmodo
Khan Academy
Udacity

Best Hardware Startup
Lit Motors
Lockitron
Makerbot
Nest
Raspberry Pi

Best Bootstrapped Startup
FreshBooks
Instapaper
Nimbus
Techmeme
Upverter

Best Time Sink Angry Birds Star Wars Buzzfeed Letterpress Pinterest WhatsApp

Biggest Social Impact
Donors Choose
Indiegogo
Kickstarter
Kiva
Reddit

Angel of the Year
Michael Arrington
Chris Dixon
Paul Graham
David Lee
Chris Sacca

Venture Capitalist of the Year
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Matt Cohler
Jim Goetz
Michael Moritz
Peter Thiel

Best International Startup
Hailo
Rovio
Soundcloud
Spotify
Xiaomi

Best New Startup of 2012
Coursera
Crowdtilt
Lyft
Snapchat
Waze

Best Overall Startup of 2012
Fab
Github
Instagram
Palantir
Square

Crunchies, is a joint production of Techcrunch and Venturebeat.
Join us on Thursday, January 31, 2013
7:30pm -11:30pm
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco
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P.S. There are other Crunchies that come in all forms and some even have a wikipedia entry. If you type in “what are crunchies” in Google you get various definitions.

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