I’m rattling entertained to foretell a newborn start assets aggregation today titled The TechFellow Awards in partnership with Founders Fund. The content is to take profession innovators and stoke newborn assets in enthusiastic primeval initiate ideas.

The TechFellow Awards aggregation module present at small dozen fellows $25,000 apiece to equip in an primeval initiate start of their choice. Founders Fund module equip an added $25,000 alongside those investments and letter an added correct to equip added $250,000 when the consort raises its incoming ammo of financing. In all, Founders Fund expects to devote around $3.6 meg to the program.

The fellows module hit some restrictions on the companies they equip in. The fellows module be designated from quaternary categories of experts: field leadership, creation organisation and marketing, generalized direction and tumultuous innovation.

Nominations for TechFellow Awards are unstoppered to everyone; aggregation on submitting grouping you conceive would be superior honor candidates is acquirable here and on TechFellow.com (self nominations are welcome). Nominations module be unstoppered until Friday, May 8, 2009.

We’ve also concentrated an awful assemble of grouping to support superior winners of the TechFellow Awards, which module be formally acknowledged at an awards party in June:

• Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder and Chairman, Ning
• Michael Arrington, Founder / Editor TechCrunch
• John Battelle, Chairman, CEO, Federated Media
• Ron Conway, Special Partner, Baseline
• Chris DeWolfe, Co-Founder and CEO, MySpace
• Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure
• Caterina Fake, Co-Founder, Flickr
• Shawn Fanning, Co-Founder, Napster, Co-Founder SNOCAP, Co-Founder Rupture
• Reid Hoffman, CEO and Co-Founder, LinkedIn
• Joi Ito, CEO, Creative Commons
• Max Levchin, Founder and CEO, Slide, Co-Founder, PayPal
• John McKinley, CEO and Founder, OurParents
• Jonathan Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corp
• Tim O’Reilly, Founder, O?Reilly Media
• Sean Parker, Co-Founder, Napster, Plaxo, Facebook; Managing Partner, Founders Fund
• Geoff Ralston, CEO, LaLa and past Chief Product Officer, Yahoo!
• Terry Semel, Chairman and CEO, metropolis Media and past Chairman and CEO, Yahoo!
• Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, SearchEngineLand.com
• Peter Thiel, Managing Partner, Founders Fund, Former CEO, PayPal
• Jeff Weiner, Executive-in-Residence, Accel Partners and Greylock Partners
• Michael Yanover, Business Development, Creative Artists Agency
• Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Facebook

The flooded advise promulgation is below:

TECHCRUNCH, FOUNDERS FUND LAUNCH FIRST ANNUAL ?TECHFELLOW AWARDS?

$50,000 ?Genius Grants for Geeks? to Invest in Emerging Companies

SAN FRANCISCO?April 16, 2009?TechCrunch, a directive profession blog, and Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley-based stake top firm, today declared the TechFellow Awards, a newborn period aggregation conformation profession innovators for action and excellence in high-tech entrepreneurship.

The dozen initial TechFellow recipients module be chosen from a look of candidates contributed by the nominating NGO with the support of the readers of TechCrunch. This unstoppered oratory impact starts today on the TechCrunch website. Final association selections module be prefabricated in June 2009 and declared at an awards party for the honorees.

The awards module discern individuals for their grave persona in nonindustrial insight products and services in quaternary categories: 1) Engineering Leadership, 2) Product Design and Marketing, 3) General Management, and 4) Disruptive Innovation.

Each TechFellow module be awarded $25,000 to equip in a newborn start of their choice. Founders Fund module correct apiece investment, for a amount of $50,000. Founders Fund haw also wage added forthcoming investments in these companies.

“Even in a downbound market, the conception and entrepreneurship of Silicon Valley continues unabated,” said archangel Arrington, Founder of TechCrunch. “The TechFellow Awards discern and move underway persona models of our industry.”

“In hard times, centering on conception relic a beatific bet,” said Sean Parker, Managing Partner at Founders Fund. “It’s instance to double-down on the forthcoming of profession by hortative the incoming procreation of innovators.”

Public TechFellow nominations start today on TechCrunch via a Webform acquirable at http://www.techcrunch.com/techfellow and module be unstoppered until Friday, May 8, 2009.

The 2009 TechFellow Awards Nominating Committee members are:
? Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder and Chairman, Ning
? John McKinley, CEO and Founder, OurParents
? Michael Arrington, Founder/Editor, TechCrunch
? Jonathan Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corp
? John Battelle, Chairman, CEO, Federated Media
? Tim O’Reilly, Founder, O?Reilly Media
? Ron Conway, Special Partner, Baseline
? Sean Parker, Co-Founder, Napster, Plaxo, Facebook; Managing Partner, Founders Fund
? Chris DeWolfe, Co-Founder and CEO, MySpace
? Geoff Ralston, CEO, LaLa and past Chief Product Officer, Yahoo!
? Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure
? Terry Semel, Chairman and CEO, metropolis Media and past Chairman and CEO, Yahoo!
? Caterina Fake, Co-Founder, Flickr
? Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, SearchEngineLand.com
? Shawn Fanning, Co-Founder, Napster, Co-Founder SNOCAP, Co-Founder Rupture ? Peter Thiel, Managing Partner, Founders Fund, Former CEO, PayPal
? Reid Hoffman, CEO and Co-Founder, LinkedIn
? Jeff Weiner, Executive-in-Residence, Accel Partners and Greylock Partners
? Joi Ito, CEO, Creative Commons
? Michael Yanover, Head of Business Development, Creative Artists Agency
? Max Levchin, Founder and CEO, Slide, Co-Founder, PayPal
? Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Facebook

For added aggregation most the TechFellow awards gratify meet http://TechFellow.com.

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