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Awards for startups seem silly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPfKI4b-dg#t=4m27s
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Awards in general are silly.
I don't think awards should be the end goal, but they do serve a purpose. For instance, most people on here probably wouldn't have heard about Liu Xiaobo, well atleast before he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Having the backing of prestigious award such as Nobel Prize will only bolster his cause; he's in prison. Increase financial and political support is not silly at all. For scientist, this might mean that they wouldn'…
Doesn't it seem somewhat passe to give the award to someone as well-established as Twitter?
These would have been far more interesting if they focused on newer, less established companies and products. Everyone already knows exactly what Twitter, Facebook, and the iPad are and no one cares if they win awards.
A well established company (IE surviving the first 3 years where most companies fail miserably) is not a startup. It may behave as one, it may act as one, but if it doesn't have the massive impending doom of simply being a brand spanking new company, then it's not a start up.
By the logic demonstrated here, I vote for best startup for 2011 to be Apple.
and second place went to Microsoft
These would have been far more interesting if they focused on newer, less established companies and products. Everyone already knows exactly what Twitter, Facebook, and the iPad are and no one cares if they win awards.
Well deserved. If it weren't for PG and YC, I wouldn't know half of what I've learned as a result of stumbling onto Hacker News.