The Crunchies!
The Crunchie awards were last night! [TechCrunch]
TechCrunch's annual awards, which bring out the best geeks in the land, took place yesterday in SF.
No Love for Google at the Crunchies. [SFGate]
The best overall startup of the year went to Dropbox.
Here's a list of the winners:
Here are the nominees and winners:
Best Technology Achievement
Lytro (Runner Up)
NFC
OnLive
Siri (Winner)
Tesla Flat Pack Battery
Best Social Application
Facebook Timeline
Instagram (Runner Up)
Google+ (Winner)
The New New Twitter
Path 2.0
Best Shopping Application
Birchbox
Fab (Winner)
Gilt Groupe
Lot18
Warby Parker (Runner Up)
Best Mobile Application
Evernote (Winner)
Flipboard (Runner Up)
Pandora
Spotify
Square
TaskRabbit
Best Location Application
Airbnb
Foursquare
Grindr (Winner)
RunKeeper (Runner Up)
Uber
Best Tablet Application
djay
Eventbrite At the Door
Fotopedia (Winner)
GarageBand
Netflix (Runner Up)
StumbleUpon
Best Design
Gojee
Orchestra
Path 2.0 (Winner)
Pinterest (Runner Up)
Quora
Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired)
Github (Runner Up)
Imgur (Winner)
Instapaper
Onesheet
Tap Tap Tap (Camera+)
Best Cloud Service
Asana
Box (Runner Up)
CloudFlare
Dropbox (Winner)
Okta
Twilio
Best International Startup
Badoo
Klarna (Runner Up)
Peixe Urbano (Winner)
Rovio
SoundCloud
Wonga
Best Clean Tech Startup
Alta Energy
Array Power (Runner Up)
EcoATM (Winner)
EcoMotors
Hara
Best New Device
Galaxy Nexus
iPad 2
iPhone 4S
Kindle Fire (Runner Up)
Nest (Winner)
Best Time Sink
Modern Warfare 3
Quora
Skyrim (Runner Up)
Turntable.fm
Words With Friends (Winner)
Biggest Social Impact
Charity: Water (Runner Up)
Khan Academy
Kickstarter
Practice Fusion
Twitter (Winner)
Angel of the Year
Ron Conway
Paul Graham
Reid Hoffman (Winner)
Keith Rabois
Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi (Runner Up)
Kevin Rose
VC of the Year
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz (Winner)
Matt Cohler (Runner Up)
Vinod Khosla
Aileen Lee
Yuri Milner
David Sze
Founder of the Year
Leah Busque (Task Rabbit)
Brian Chesky (Airbnb)
Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter) (Winner)
Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (One Kings Lane)
Drew Houston (Dropbox) (Runner Up)
CEO of the Year
Dick Costolo (Twitter)
Daniel Ek (Spotify) (Runner Up)
Phil Libin (Evernote)
Mark Pincus (Zynga)
Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn) (Winner)
Best New Startup of 2011
Codecademy (Runner Up)
Fab
Nest
Pinterest (Winner)
Turntable.fm
Best Overall Startup of 2011
Dropbox (Winner)
Instagram
Gilt Groupe
Spotify
Square (Runner Up)
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Thanks to everyone who watched, voted, or attended the Crunchies. This award show is about the tech community, and we’re honored to have you as our readers.
Crunchie Award for Best New Startup of 2011 goes to Pinterest [TechCrunch]
Online pinboard Pinterest, the hot new startup that’s growing at a phenomenal rate, won the Crunchie for the Best New Startup of 2011 at this year’s Crunchies. (This, despite the fact that it actually launched in 2010). The reason? Crazy, crazy traffic and growth. In November, the site had reportedly seen a 2,000% increase in pageviews, according to comScore. That wasn’t year-over-year growth, mind you, but the increase Pinterest had seen since June. At 421 million pageviews, the site had already surpassed more established players, like Etsy, for example.
“Pinterest is a visual site, and a lot of people are visual by nature,” Silbermann explains. “But at its core, Pinterest is a site that connects people who are passionate about the same things. In the same way that people who use Facebook are excited to connect with people they care about, people on Pinterest are excited to be inspired by people with similar tastes.”
[Photo: Evan Sharp, Ben Silbermann via]