It was another very successful event last night, with about 400 people attending the second annual Seattle 2.0 Awards. The day started early with a Poker Tournament (what’s up with entrepreneurs and Poker?) organized by Bob Crimmins of Startup Poker 2.0. Then the official event began, where the top investors, entrepreneurs, bloggers and service providers from the Seattle tech startup scene came to celebrate their accomplishments.
After Jennifer Cabala kicked off the event and I gave short speech, Jonathan Sposato gave the keynote speech, telling his personal story and giving folks lots of good advice, finishing with “Have fun! We are not here for a long time.” We’ll publish his video soon.
We already have some pictures available on Facebook– go ahead, tag the people you know and add some lively captions. You can also see pictures and read a few reviews of the event on TechFlash blog post, TechFlash Podcast and Xconomy.
The finalists and winners for each category were:
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Best Startup: Apptio, Blue Kai, BuddyTV, Cheezburger Network and Redfin (Winner)
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Best Boot-strapped Startup: BigOven, Biznik, Bonanzle (Winner), HasOffers and Survey Analytics
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Best Nonprofit Startup: Jolkona, One Bus Away, Startup Weekend, TisBest (Winner) and Vittana
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Best Startup CEO: Rich Barton (Zillow) (Winner), Sunny Gupta (Apptio), Glenn Kelman (Redfin), Andy Liu (BuddyTV) and Dave Schappell (TeachStreet)
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Best Startup Technologist: Damon Cortesi (Untitled Startup), Joe Heitzeberg (WhitePages), Darrin Massena (Picnik/Google), Daryn Nakhuda (TeachStreet) and Scott Porad (Cheezburger Network) (Winner)
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Best Startup Designer: Alex Berg (ex-Wetpaint), Greg Bowers (TeachStreet), Aviel Ginzburg (Untitled Startup), Jenny Lam (Jackson Fish Market) (Winner) and Matt Lerner (Front Seat)
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Best Venture Capitalist: Geoff Entress (Voyager Capital), Michelle Goldberg (Ignition Partners), Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group) (Winner), Nick Hanauer (Second Avenue Partners) and Andy Sack (Founder’s Co-Op)
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Best Angel Investor: Bill Bryant, Clark Kokich, Andy Liu (Winner), Dan Rosen and Kelly Smith
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Best Service Provider to Startups: Pearl Chan (CFO Selections), Geir Hansen (SVB), Eric Koester (Cooley) (Winner), Craig Sherman (WSGR) and Joe Wallin (DWT).
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Best Entrepreneur Blog: Inspired Startup by Andy Liu, Quick Sprout by Neil Patel, Redfin Blog by Glenn Kelman (Winner), Startup Front End by Tony Wright and Untitled Startup Blog by Damon Cortesi & Aviel Ginzburg.
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Best Event for Startups: Hops & Chops, STS Meetings, TechFlash Live, Ignite Seattle (Winner), and Seattle Open Coffee.
Here are a few additional bloggers who wrote about this event: Glenn Kelman (Redfin), John Chow (w/ pictures), Nicole Donnelly, and we’ll keep adding more as more people send us their link.
We have a long list of folks to thank, including all of the attendees, finalists, winners, and the folks demo-ing their startup. But a few names we have to mention are: Danielle Morrill, Brian Westbrook and Shauna Causey for doing a great job on live broadcasting this event, doing interviews and doing a great job of keeping the energy level high, Marcelo Albuquerque, Forrest Corbett and Randy Stewart for taking pictures, Bryan Zug for the video recording, Lynn Edwards for managing the event and everyone who watched the event.
We also would like to thank our sponsors: Fenwick West, Amazon Web Services, Garvey Schubert Barer, McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren, WTIA, Summit Law Group, Design Commission, SharedBusinessSpace.com. We also had great Media Partners, Mashable, nPost, Startup Weekend, Lunch 2.0 and TechFlash.