Last call for startup savings Tech Trailblazers Awards early bird ends Friday August 17th

Enterprise tech startup awards entry fee savings ends soon

LONDON, UK – August 13th 2012 – The Tech Trailblazers Awards early bird rates closes just shy of midnight Pacific time this Friday, leaving enterprise tech startups with just a few days to make savings on their awards submissions fee. The discounted rates of $250 for the first entry and just $100 for any subsequent submissions means that entrants make attractive savings especially when submitting multiple entries. With stacks of prizes from the $1million dollar prize fund up for grabs, a comprehensive promotion campaign by the organizers plus mentoring from the crème de la crème of the VC and Technology industry, the early bird means even better ROI for entrants.

The Tech Trailblazers Awards celebrate and reward innovation in the following areas: big data, cloud, emerging markets, mobile technology, networking, IT security, data storage, sustainable IT and virtualization.

The Tech Trailblazers Awards prize fund, projected to be worth in excess of $1m, is supported by sponsors and industry partners including MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, the Cloud Security Alliance, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Prezi, Computing, Startup America, RealWire, Lissted, Launchpad Europe, Mynewsdesk, Wazoku, and ExecEvent.

All entrants to the Tech Trailblazers Awards  get the chance to have their technology reviewed by some of the IT industry’s eminent influencers from around the world. The extensive judging panel reflects the Tech Trailblazers’ pioneering “community spirit” approach to enterprise IT awards.

Information on how to enter the awards is here. The early-bird submissions fee is $250 for the first category with a deadline of August 17th at 11:59pm PT. Entry forms should be submitted before the final closing date of September 12th for consideration by the expert panel.

The Tech Trailblazers Awards last week launched a Twitter campaign called #TTAwards #blazingTshirts to give followers the chance to win a limited-edition Tech Trailblazers Awards t-shirt. The tech community on Twitter will be asked to retweet the @techtrailblaze tweets of their favorite category logos. The winners will be drawn randomly after the awards submissions close at 23:59pm Pacific on September 12^th (the same time as the awards submissions close). The contest is live now, so participants should follow the Tech Trailblazers Awards on Twitter now at http://www.twitter.com/techtrailblaze. 

For more information and to be added to the mailing list to receive the latest updates, please visit www.techtrailblazers.com or email innovate@techtrailblazers.com On Twitter, follow

Tech Trailblazers Awards buzz at @techtrailblaze and by searching   hashtag #TTAwards.

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About the Tech Trailblazers Awards

www.techtrailblazers.com

Tech Trailblazers is a new concept in awards, designed explicitly for smaller businesses and startups that are less than five years old and are privately funded or at C-series funding or below. The awards have low barriers to entry and prizes that not only recognize startup innovation, but also proactively help startups grow their businesses with exclusive coaching, mentoring and development from VCs and leading CTOs as well as an estimated prize fund worth in excess of $1m.

The awards seek to recognize true innovators in the following enterprise technology areas:

• Big Data Trailblazers
• Cloud Trailblazers
• Emerging Markets Trailblazers
• Mobile Technology Trailblazers
• Networking Trailblazers
• Security Trailblazers
• Storage Trailblazers
• Sustainable IT Trailblazers
• Virtualization Trailblazers

Entries are now open at www.techtrailblazers.com. The early-bird deadline is August 17th at 11:59pm PT. Final deadline September 12^th at 11:59pm PT.

For more information, please read the FAQ at www.techtrailblazers.com/faq, email us at innovate@techtrailblazers.com, or follow us on Twitter @Techtrailblaze or via the hashtag #TTAwards.