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Mobile Premier Awards 2010 – Thank You!

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Dear Mobile Premier Awards Friends,

The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 was a GREAT success, congratulations to the winners of this years’ event!

Over a million results on Google;
thousands of tweets and blog posts;
hundreds of participating startups and attendants;
from 160 cities;
in 40 countries;
across 5 continents.

We want to thank YOU for participating and also:

Our Sponsors:
Barcelona City Council, 22@ Barcelona, Barcelona Activa, BlackBerry, Bluenove and O2 Litmus;

Our Network Partners:
MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEX, MobileActive.org, Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

Our Media Partners:
Arctic Startup, Fonearena, GomoNews, IntoMobile, Mashable, Mobile Zeitgeist, mSearchGroove, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, RCR Wireless, and the many bloggers who wrote about the event.

The online and stage jury, the moderator, the finalists, the nominees, all participating startups and everyone else who has been contributing to make this event a success.

View the complete Mobile Premier Awards 2010 Flickr Set of images of the event.

We welcome your feedback, comments or ideas about the event. We’re eager to hear your voice in order to improve things for next year. You can follow our future activities @dotopen on Twitter.

We have a lot of ideas and new projects coming your way, so we hope to see you soon again somewhere in 2010.

Our Best,

The dotopen team:
Deisi, Carles, Rudy and Steffen.

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Mobile Premier Awards Audience Voting through Twitter

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

This year we’re going to use Twitter for the audience voting for the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation. The best overall startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday in Early Stage and Emerging categories. You can view the finalists and our final program here.

All you need to do is follow @mobilepremier on Twitter and we’ll communicate the instructions how to vote at the event itself next Monday in Barcelona.

Haven’t registered yet? Book your seat now!

Tags: Audience Voting, barcelona, Mobile Premier Awards, mobile world congress, mobilemonday, mpa10, mwc, twitter, voting
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Mobile Premier Awards Final Program

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

We’re happy to announce the final program of this years’ Mobile Premier Awards.

Besides the classic MPA in Innovation live 3-minute pitches, this year we have the winners of the other awards in collaboration with our Network Partners.

For this year’s event, we have a special keynote: a presentation on the story of arguably the most successful startup in mobile history, Admob.

Russell Buckley, Vice President Global Alliances at AdMob will be sharing thoughts on how to start and grow a successful company in mobile, based on over 10 years experience in the industry, AdMob’s phenomenal success, as well as ZagMe, which wasn’t so lucky.

Richard Wong, Partner Accel Partners, investors in AdMob, will talk about his experience as a VC with some of the key mobile startups in a presentation called “The Inexorable Rise of Open Mobile”.

But there’s more:

Our event host will be Mark Palmer, Founder of Maverick Planet Ltd.

Check the jury that will choose the winners among the 20 finalists.

We added Mike Butcher, Editor of TechCrunch Europe and Matthäus Krzykowski, Editor of VentureBeat to moderate the pitches in the MPA in Innovation.

What are you waiting for? Book your seat now!

Tags: awards, barcelona, entrepreneurs, keynote, mobile, Mobile Premier Awards, mobile world congress, moderators, mpa10, mwc, partners, pitches, Program, rally, starups
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How To Register To Attend Mobile Premier Awards

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

To attend the Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona on February 15, you can buy full price tickets here on Amiando.

If you are a member of dotopen, you (and up to four of your colleagues) can buy a special ticket price of 39€ instead of 99€ for non-members, and you get these two additional benefits:

- Visibility for your company. During the registration and networking, the screens will be showing the logos and pitches of all the dotopen members attending the event. This kind of visibility costs thousands in other events, but it is FREE to dotopen members

- Networking recommendations. dotopen members attending the event will receive a short list of suggested dotopen attendees to network with. These recommendations are based on the information on your profile and how it matches with other attending profiles.

dotopen members register like this.

What? Not a dotopen member, yet?
You can sign up for FREE! It goes like this:

You can start here now.

See you in Barcelona!

Tags: barcelona, dotopen, dotopen.com, Mobile Premier Awards, mobile world congress, mpa10, mwc, Registration, startups
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Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation Finalists

Monday, January 25th, 2010

The Mobile Premier Awards announces the 20 finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation: The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals.

The finalists were chosen by an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts who will pitch their idea, application or project at the Mobile Premier Awards event that takes place in Barcelona, at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 15, 2010 in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

The year’s MPA best in Mobile Startup innovation Finalists are:

MobileMonday Austria – Mobilizy
MobileMonday Barcelona – fonYou
MobileMonday Berlin – spendino
MobileMonday Bogota – RedSalvavidas
MobileMonday Chennai – mobiSiteGalore
MobileMonday Copenhagen – Cepa Mobility
MobileMonday Edinburgh – Mobile Acuity
MobileMonday Estonia – TaxiPal
MobileMonday Lithuania – SendFlow
MobileMonday London – Audioboo
MobileMonday Milan – Soundtrckr
MobileMonday Munich – Aloqa
MobileMonday New Delhi – Voicetap Technologies
MobileMonday New York – PercentMobile
MobileMonday Oslo – Bipper Communication
MobileMonday Rest of EMEA – Layar
MobileMonday Silicon Valley – CloudMade
MobileMonday Slovenia – Visionect
MobileMonday Stockholm – MoSync
MobileMonday Tel Aviv – waze

The finalists chosen to the Innovation Awards will present along with the winners in the other categories chosen by our partner networks (see below).

You can follow their activities here on this MPA Finalist Twitter List.

Mobile Premier Awards Registration

To attend the Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona on February 15, you can buy full price tickets here on Amiando.

If you are a member of dotopen, you (and up to four of your colleagues) can buy a special ticket price of 39€ instead of 99€ for non-members, and you get additional benefits. Check here for all details on registration.

About the Mobile Premier Awards

The Mobile Premier Awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry including MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEX, MobileActive.org, Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

This year we have received over 600 startup submissions from all continents to the different awards.

* MPA in Innovation – The classic peer-reviewed, global grassroots competition where MobileMonday chapters nominate a local startup to eventually pitch in Barcelona.
* MPA in Marketing – The best startup in Mobile Marketing – in partnership in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association.
* MPA in Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum.
* MPA in User Experience – The best startup in Mobile User Experience in partnership with MEX.
* MPA in Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change in partnership with MobileActive.org.
* MPA in Female Entrepreneurship – The best woman-lead mobile startup in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

The Mobile Premier Awards are a once a year opportunity to reach the most influential professionals and companies in innovation in the mobile industry and so it offers unique opportunities for visibility and communication. If you are interested, ask us for some more information at info(AT)mobilepremierawards(DOT)com.

The Mobile Premier Awards online

Check out the Mobile Premier Awards Web Banners (series II). Feel free to use them on your website or blog!

Mobile Premier Awards RSS Feed
Mobile Premier Awards on Twitter @mobilepremier
Visit our Facebook Fan Page.

Please use hashtag #mpa10 in your online communications.

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Mobile Premier Awards Online Jury

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

To make the finalist selection as transparent and open to the industry as possible, the Mobile Premier Awards brought together an online jury of industry experts to select the best startups, out of the 49 MPA in Innovation Nominees, selected by MobileMonday chapters around the globe.

The startups are valued on the basis of their:

originality, creativity and innovation
technical and operational feasibility
economic and financial viability

The jury members need to consider geographical diversity, keeping a good balance between different countries and continents. Jury members may not select a startup from their own country or have any commercial activity with any of the startups they choose.

We ask the jury members to choose startups with a cool mobile product, avoiding agencies, pure technology or low value me-too propositions. We stimulate diversity of application and solution areas, and we ask them to keep an eye open at the startups from developing countries.

The finalists will be announced here on January 25.

Here’s the list of jury members to select the 20 finalists to present on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona:

Ajit Joakar, Author at Futuretext, @AjitJaokar
Alfredo Morresi, Developer, @rainbowbreeze
Andy Abramson, CEO, Comunicano, and blog author, @andyabramson
Aviv Revach, Co-Founder Mo’Minis, @aviv_revach
Chetan Sharma, Consultant, Author, Evangelist, @chetansharma
David Wood, Principal at Delta Wisdom, @dw2
Frederic Laziou, Fund raising and M&A advisory for European technology ventures, @fredericlaziou
Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile, Facebook, @moissinac
Ilja Laurs, Founder and CEO of GetJar, @getjar
Inma Martinez, entrepreneur, investor, strategist, @inma_martinez
Kerry Ritz, Chief Commercial Officer, ACN Europe BV, @kerryritz
Martin Duval, CEO Bluenove, @bluenove
Oliver Lauer, Co-founder of mobilemonday.de, @mobinauten
Oliver Weidlich, Mobile User Experience Specialist, Ideal interfaces, @oliverw
Pat Phelan, Cubic Telecom & MAXroam founder, @patphelan
Peggy Anne Salz, Founder of MSearchGroove, @peggyanne
Raj Singh, Mobile Enthusiast, @raazzzin
Richard Marshall, Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd, @rmmarshall
Roberto Bonanzinga, Partner at Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Europe), @bonanzinga
Rodrigo Sepulveda, Entrepreneur and Business Angel, @Rodrigo
Romain David, Director of Mobile Products at Lumosity.com, @romaindavid
Simon Andrews, Founder addictive, @simonbigpicture
Steve Kennedy, Industry veteran, pundit, journo, investor, @stevekennedyUK
Tomi Ahonen, Author and consultant in mobile and media, @tomiahonen
Volker Hirsch, Co-Founder & CEO, Blue Beck, @vhirsch
Yuri van Geest, Co-Founder Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Co-Organizer TEDx Amsterdam, @vangeest

Here’s a Twitter list of the Mobile Premier Awards online jury so you can follow their discussions at once!

As usual, a different jury will be judging the finalist pitches on stage at the event on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona.

About the Mobile Premier Awards

Tags: barcelona, jury, mobile, Mobile Premier Awards, mobile world congress, mpa10, mwc, startups
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Registration Deadline Mobile Premier Awards Extended

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The Mobile Premier Awards are extending the registration deadline till January 10 local time. Participation to the awards is free and open to any startup with a mobile angle. If you missed the deadline because of the holidays, here’s how to sign up for the mobile premier awards .

The Mobile Premier Awards are the largest open and global startup competition in the mobile industry and are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona. The awards are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry including MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEX, MobileActive.org, Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

To sign up entrants simply need to create their own company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they want to compete in. Click here for more details on the award categories.

If you’re interested to become part of the jury for the finalist selections or know someone who should be part of it, you can still apply here.

More Mobile Premier Awards online

Mobile Premier Awards RSS Feed
Mobile Premier Awards on Twitter @mobilepremier
Visit our Facebook Fan Page.

Please use hashtag #mpa10 in your online communications.
Feel free to use our MPA banners on your blog or website! Please link to http://mobilepremierawards.com

Tags: awards, barcelona, entertainment, entrepreneurs, innovation, marketing, mef, mex, mma, mobile, mobile entertainement forum, mobile marketing association, mobile monday, Mobile Premier Awards, mobile world congress, mobileactive, mpa10, pitches, social change, startup, startups, women 2.0, women in mobile data association
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Apply to Become a Mobile Premier Award 2010 Jury Member

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

To make the finalist selection as transparent and open to the industry as possible, the Mobile Premier Awards is bringing together an online jury of industry experts to select the best startups to present on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona.

For the MPA in Innovation award in partnership with MobileMonday, each local chapter selects its nominee to go into the final. For this edition we have 75 chapters nominating their favourite startup, so we ask the online jury to select the 20 finalists that will present at the event in Barcelona.

If you’re interested to become part of that jury or know someone who should be part of it, send an email to jury AT mobilepremierawards DOT com with a short bio, your LinkedIn profile, and personal blog and twitter name.

Join @Russell Buckley, @Tomi Ahonen, @Ajit Jaokar, @Andrew Grill, @Raimo van der Klein, @James Whatley, @Pat Phelan, @Chetan Sharma, and other mobile illuminates. Previous juries have included, amongst others, representatives from Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, Google, Yahoo!, HP, VentureBeat, GoMoNews, Shozu, Plazes, dotMobi, Nexit Ventures, Balderton Capital, Xtract…

About the Mobile Premier Awards

Participation to the awards is free and open to any startup with a mobile angle. To sign up entrants simply need to create their own company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they want to compete in. Visit how to sign up for the mobile premier awards and how to create a good company profile. The deadline for entry is December 31^st 2009.

Tags: 2010, awards, barcelona, competition, industry experts, jury, Mobile Premier Awards, mobile world congress, mobilemonday, mpa10, mwc, startups
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Mobile Premier Awards Secure Unprecedented Mobile Marketing Association Sponsorship of Best Start Up in Marketing Category

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

MMA offers winner free MMA membership, participation in MMF events and free consultancy from members as part of agreement

Barcelona and London: December 10, 2009 – The Mobile Premier Awards today announced an unprecedented partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) to sponsor the Best Start Up in Marketing category of its awards program. Taking place on February 15^th 2010 during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Mobile Premier Awards are the largest open and global start up competition in the mobile industry. Organised in partnership with some of the industry’s biggest associations and communities, it provides the point of reference for the start up community at Mobile World Congress .

Under the terms of this partnership, the Mobile Marketing Association will grant the winning start up of the Mobile Premier Award in Marketing:

a free one year European MMA membership, valued at $2,500
a speaking slot at the 2010 Mobile Marketing Forum (MMF) Europe, the MMA’s flagship event for the entire mobile marketing ecosystem
consultancy from one or more MMA global board members with experience in start ups
presence on the MMA website, including the posting of a case study of the winner’s work

Rudy De Waele, Organizer of the Mobile Premier Awards commented; “The Mobile Premier Awards were designed to bring more openness and collaboration to the mobile industry and what better way to do this than by bringing together the most important industry-wide networks. The MMA has always been the voice of mobile marketing and therefore a major driver of business models for many entrepreneurs. This partnership is great news for mobile startups around the world.”

Paul Berney, Managing Director, MMA Europe, added; “The MMA has long been a champion of innovative startups in the mobile space so we are very happy to be able to support the Mobile Premier Awards in this way. This is the first time that the MMA has supported anyone else’s awards and the first time the MMA has given away free membership as a prize, but as with our own awards, we see the recognition of success in mobile marketing as a key factor in industry growth. We look forward to seeing and working with the high quality of entrants in this category”

There have already been more than 200 submissions for the Mobile Premier Awards. Participation is free and open to any startup with a mobile angle. To sign up entrants simply need to create their own company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they want to compete in. Visit how to sign up for the mobile premier awards and how to create a good company profile. The deadline for entry is December 31^st 2009.

The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 also include the following awards:

* MPA in Innovation – The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers
in partnership with MobileMonday

* MPA in Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment
in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum

* MPA in User Experience – The best startup in Mobile User Experience
in partnership with MEX.

* MPA in Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change
in partnership with MobileActive.org

* MPA in Female Entrepreneurship – The best woman-lead mobile startup
in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

About the Mobile Premier Awards

Participation to these awards is free and open to any innovative startup with a mobile angle. To signup to this competition, simply create your company profile on dotopen.com and choose the award’s where you want to participate.

About the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA)

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is the premier global non-profit trade association established to lead the growth of mobile marketing and advertising and their related technologies. The MMA is an action-oriented organization designed to clear obstacles to market development, establish mobile media guidelines and best practices for sustainable growth, and evangelize the use of the mobile channel. The more than 700 member companies, representing more than 40 countries around the globe, include all members of the mobile media ecosystem. The MMA’s global headquarters are located in the United States and it has regional chapters, including North America (NA), Europe (EUR), Latin America (LATAM), Middle East & Africa (MEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) branches. For more information, please visit www.mmaglobal.com.

Tags: 2010, barcelona, marketing, mma, mobile, mobile marketing association, Mobile Premier Awards, mobile world congress, mpa10, mwc, partnership, startups
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Calling All Mobile Startups

Friday, December 4th, 2009

For this year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation.

The Mobile Premier Awards are the largest open and global startup competition in the mobile industry. The awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry.

The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 include the following awards:

* MPA in Innovation – The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers
in partnership with MobileMonday

More than 75 MobileMonday chapters worldwide will nominate their local most innovative startup to compete in the innovation award. From these nominees an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts will select 20 finalists to come and pitch at the event in Barcelona in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, press and influential bloggers.

* MPA in Marketing – The best startup in Mobile Marketing
in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association which will grant the winner:

a free one year Regional (European) membership of the MMA valued at $2,500
a speaking slot at a Mobile Marketing Forum in Europe during 2010
some consulting free of charge from a global board member of the MMA (exact nature to be confirmed)
a feature on the MMA website (www.mmaglobal.com) where including the post of a case study of the winner’s work

* MPA in Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment
in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum which will grant the winner a prize exceeding €3,000 in value, including:

a free one year Associate Membership to the MEF
a free pass to MeM 2010, MEF’s annual conference in Europe
a free submission to the 2010 Meffys awards
a featured post on the MEF blog

* MPA in User Experience – The best startup in Mobile User Experience
in partnership with MEX. The winner will receive:

a free pass to attend the MEX Mobile User Experience Conference in London in May 2010. Valued at GBP 1499, the delegate pass provides an opportunity to work alongside 100 of the industry’s leading user experience strategists as they define the mobile UX agenda through 2 days of co-operative working.

* MPA in Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change
in partnership with MobileActive.org

* MPA in Female Entrepreneurship – The best woman-lead mobile startup
in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

About the Mobile Premier Awards

More Mobile Premier Awards online

Mobile Premier Awards RSS Feed
Mobile Premier Awards on Twitter @mobilepremier
Visit our Facebook Fan Page.

Please use hashtag #mpa10 in your online communications.
Feel free to use our MPA banners on your blog or website! Please link to http://mobilepremierawards.com