Best Startup Book of 2011: Mastering the VC Game by Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital
Best Interview Podcast/Webcast Series with Entrepreneurs: Andrew Warner’s Mixergy
Best Intervew Podcast/Webcast Series with Investors: Mark Suster’s in Venture Capital
Best Startup Blog: This, the most hotly contested award goes to Both Sides of the Table by Mark Suster
Best Startup Answer Sites Other than OnStartups: Three-way tie between Venture Hacks, Quora, and AsktheVC
Best blog post by an entrepreneur: A tie between this postmortem by Justin Hall about Gamelayers, and Rand Fishkin on how a funding round got screwed up
Best blog post on an unknown backstory goes to Lee Hower’s post on raising Series A for LinkedIn in 2003
Best Communication from a Startup to its Investors: From Objective Logistics as described in this blog post
Funniest Twitter Feed in 2001: @fakedavetisch. He was only active for two days, but what a great two days!
Best business card execution: Any business card from moo.com that has a face with it
Best business card app: CardMunch. With one iPhone snapshot, get all data entered into your phone and get connected via LinkedIn.
Best present for an Entrepreneur: A T-Shirt or Poster from Fake Grimlock.
Best app I can’t live without: Video Skype
Worst Upgrade since Windows Vista: iOS 5 on my formerly trusty iPhone 3GS. Buggy, crashes, mysterious data losses, I could go on. I promise from now on to wait to hear others’ stories before installing updates.
Worst startup launch viewed from afar: Color.com. But don’t ask me about it, ask the Scobleizer, who also wins a related Best Rant for his review of their launch.
Worst startup mistake: Having a big burn rate.
via OnStartups
