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Venture Voice Launches World's First Interactive Podcast Awards Show; Apprentice Winner Kelly Perdew, Blogger Founder Evan Williams and Excite Founder Joe Kraus Among Nominees
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 28, 2005 -- Venture Voice, the premier podcast radio show covering venture capital and entrepreneurship, has launched a competition that gives listeners a voice by voting for the 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year. Listeners can cast their vote at http://www.venturevoice.com/entrepreneur2005.
During an interview, Venture Voice host Gregory Galant said, "Podcasting allows us to bring the stories of startups to life - but so far we've only been telling one side. We've given entrepreneurs a voice. Now we're handing the microphone over to our thousands of loyal listeners."
Listeners may call 212-461-4850 or send an audio file to give an impassioned rant about who should win. People may also vote on the website, but audio votes are given five times more weight.
Everyone who's been interviewed on Venture Voice is nominated: -0- *T Drew Clark of IBM Venture Dick Costolo of FeedBurner Capital Group Brad Feld of Mobius Venture Deborah Farrington of Starvest Partners Capital Jason Fried of 37signals Fabrice Grinda of Zingy Jeremy Hague of Skylook Scott Heiferman of Meetup David Hornik of August Capital Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Kelly Perdew, winner of The Apprentice Software Philip Kaplan of AdBrite and Tom Szaky of TerraCycle F'dCompany VideoEgg Founders Joe Kraus of JotSpot and Excite Mena Trott of Six Apart Scott Rafer, formerly of Feedster Derek Sivers of CD Baby Evan Williams of Odeo, founder of Blogger (acquired by Google) *T
Listeners may cast their vote until January 9th. Venture Voice will announce the winner in its January 17th podcast. The podcast will play audio clips from listeners, followed by an acceptance speech from the winner. This contest gives an unusually high level of interactivity to podcasts, allowing listeners to shape an entire show.
About the Host
Greg Galant has worked at CNN.com and for a venture capital firm. He launched Venture Voice after graduating from college May 2005. He's also the CEO of RadioTail, the leading company facilitating podcast advertising.
While running an entrepreneurship workshop for high school and college students for five years, Galant noticed a need for information about starting businesses and created Venture Voice to fill the void.
RadioTail matches podcasts with advertisers. It provides unique technology to place and track podcast ad campaigns. Clients include McGraw-Hill.
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