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By Tim.If you’re a regular reader of VentureBeat, Read/WriteWeb, GigaOm, or TechCrunch, you might have heard of the Crunchies, which they’ve established to highlight the best business accomplishments of 2007.
If you think Next New Networks was one of the cool startup stories of 2007 (and if you’re reading this blog, we have some hope that you do, and thanks!), we’d love if you take fifteen seconds out of your day today and please nominate us for any categories you think we might qualify. Nominating is really easy — it takes five seconds, no essays to write, and it’s totally anonymous. All you do is go to the site, type in our name, and it’s done.
We’re happy for any nominations we might get, but some that might apply for us are Best business model, Best consumer start-up, Best video site, Best use of viral marketing, Most likely to succeed, Best new start-up of 2007, or
I’d like to personally suggest you nominate Herb Scannell as 2007’s Best startup CEO. At a time when other people in the entertainment industry responded to video on the internet with litigation and, now, sadly, broken down negotiations, I’m impressed every day that Herb went from a Vice Chairman seat at MTV to helming our little privateer ship a couple miles off the network TV coast. As I type this, he’s sitting in a meeting with me and the network managers and programming team, leaned forward in his chair, like he is every week, totally engaged and leading the brainstorming as to how we secure the uncontested title of #1 provider of TV programming on the internet, and make that the business we all know it can be. In less than nine months, he led an unproven company to a significant fundraising round, made friends with companies like YouTube, Veoh, and Bebo as part of an unprecedented number of distribution partnership deals, and oversaw the creation of a ton of great new networks — it’s hard to believe that a year ago, ThreadBanger, Veracifier, Fast Lane Daily and Indy Mogul, just to name a few, didn’t even exist. If you’ve met Herb in the past year, you know what a fun and smart guy he is, and how lucky we are to have him — I have no doubt that we wouldn’t be where we are now if he hadn’t agreed to take the top spot here.
