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The Crunchies 2008: Vote
- rantfoil 18y agoCongrats to our friends at BackType, Dropbox and Co2stats! YC has really been making an impact on the tech startup scene and it's great to see that being recognized here. Vote Posterous for Best Mobile Startup. =)
- fallentimes 18y agoDone (for all of them), but I'll be honest - I've never really thought of you as a mobile startup.
- raju 18y agoCongrats to you, and all the other YC startups! Though some touch choices there (BackType and GitHub in the same category)
- fallentimes 18y agoYou're right. Github is certainly the favorite (and deserves to be).
- konsl 18y agoI thought you were BackType Alerts' #1 Fan ;(
- fallentimes 18y agoOh I am (and I voted for you guys), but what Github has done in under a year is nothing short of amazing. IMHO they should be a contender for startup of the year.
- zain 18y agoFacebook is in a lot of the nominations. Are they really still a startup?
- brandonkm 18y agoTechnically yes, but actually no.
- newt0311 18y agoOut of curiosity, have they turned a profit yet? Last I heard, they were still getting more funding from selling shares.
- konsl 18y agoAccording to Dave McClure, they are going to pull in > $270M in revenue for 2008: http://www.backtype.com/url/500hats.typepad.com/comment/19091636 http://www.backtype.com/url/500hats.typepad.com/comment/1909... Not sure how much they need to become profitable.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoI believe that in an interview (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1567 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1567 , maybe), Zuckerberg said that they were profitable very early on, but decided to go for more growth.
- vaksel 18y agoSeems like 1/3 of them are stuff that you never even heard of, 1/3 are big name companies that have no reason to be in this thing at all, and 1/3 are actual startups that deserve to be nominated. So basically a typical techcrunch "startup" event
- auston 18y agoWhat I don't get is how Rolando, which came out TWO DAYS before nominations closed, landed on there (not to say I don't love it) - http://vote.crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/votes/#category_16 http://vote.crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/votes/#category_16
- aj 18y agoWhy is this fugly "award" so over-hyped?
- fallentimes 18y agoThe award itself doesn't matter, but the press the winners get is very valuable (especially for bootstrapped startups).
- rrival 18y agoYes. The gorillas are made of solid gold under that black paint.
- paraschopra 18y agoWhen I vote, the site says: "Element.update("cat_1", "Thanks for voting!"); Element.hide("noms_1");" Weird. BTW, I am using Chrome. Is the error specific to it?
- ajkirwin 18y agoI'm sorry. "less than $100,000" = bootstrapped?