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Q.1
Startup of the Year
Airbnb - An online service that matches hosts with vacationers for short-term accommodations. Over a million users in 192 countries.
Evernote - A notetaking and archiving app with over 34 million users that allows you to easily save and share notes across devices
Instagram - A photo-sharing network with over 100 million users
Spotify - A music-streaming service with 20 million users
Tesla Motors - Maker of the Tesla Model S electric car which won the 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year award
Q.2
Entrepreneur of the Year
Phil Libin - CEO of Evernote
Elon Musk - CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX
Jack Dorsey - CEO of Square, co-founder/former CEO of Twitter
Matt Mullenweg - Creator of Wordpress
Kevin Systrom - CEO of Instagram
Q.3
App You Can't Live Without
Dropbox - A file-sharing service with over 50 million users
Evernote - A notetaking and archiving app with over 34 million users that allows you to easily save and share notes across devices
Box - A file-sharing service targeted at personal and enterprise customers
Instagram - A photo-sharing network with over 100 million users
Seamless - A digital food ordering service
Waze - A community-driven GPS app that learns from users' driving habits
Q.4
Best Viral Video
Dollar Shave Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI)
Gangnam Style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0)
Look at This Instagram (collegehumor.com/video/6853117/look-at-this-instagram-nickelback-parody)
Apple Maps Dark Knight Parody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyq-zyE-wU)
Samsung Slams Apple Commercial - Galaxy S3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJafiCKliA8)
Q.5
Best Twitter Feed
@brainpicker
@NextTechBlog
@GSElevator
@Horse_ebooks
@NYTOnIt
Q.6
Most Innovative News Organization
Buzzfeed - That website with the hard-hitting political scoops and the cats
Circa - A mobile app that aggregates top stories into small news bites
NSFWCorp - An online satirical news magazine led by Paul Carr
The Verge - A technology news website owned by Vox Media
The Guardian - A nearly 200-year-old newspaper doing really exciting things on the Web
Q.7
Investor of the Year
Marc Andreessen - Cofounder and partner of VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz
Ben Horowitz - Cofounder and partner of VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz
Reid Hoffman - Angel investor and LinkedIn cofounder
Chris Sacca - Investor in Twitter, Uber, and Instagram, and manager of Lowercase Capital
Fred Wilson - Cofounder of Union Square Ventures
Q.8
Social Network of the Year
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Pinterest
Q.9
Most Promising Relaunch
Foursquare
Path
Digg
Myspace
Songbird
Q.10
Most Surprising Success Story
Tesla Motors - Maker of the Tesla Model S electric car which won the 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year award
Stripe - An online payments company that raised $20M last Summer
Pinterest - A social online "pinboard" that attracts over 1 million users a day
Rap Genius - A database of annotated rap lyrics and other pop culture artifacts that raised $15M this Fall
Supercell - A Finnish gaming startup worth $600M by some estimates
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