Update 3/18: Voting for Round 1 has closed—voting for Round 2 is now open.
Here's our original post for Round 1:
Our 2nd annual Tech Madness contest begins now. So let’s get right to it: Which of these 64 Boston tech companies do you think will be more valuable in five years? Cast your first round of votes below.
These 64 companies were chosen from among 175 top players on the Boston tech scene. They range from massive publicly traded companies to tiny seed-stage startups.
Public companies make up the top seeds and are ranked by market cap. Criteria for the rest of the seeds included funding, age and size of the company.
Voting in this 1st round closes on Wednesday, March 18, at 5 p.m. There'll be six rounds of voting—with the final, championship round closing on April 3.
Why do this?
This contest is just for fun—we thought the Boston tech community might enjoy some friendly competition this March. But it’s also a recognition of the fact that, in the tech industry, crazy and unlikely things happen all the time. So this contest does actually involve an earnest question—i.e., could a Jebbit someday be more valuable than a HubSpot? In five years, could TripAdvisor be gone and Tablelist still be around? Will Wayfair still be an e-commerce giant in 2020? Whaddya think?
