This past week, TechCrunch released its first research report, The 2008 Year in Review. The primary data source is CrunchBase, our wiki-style database of start-up companies, people and investors where we’ve been collecting data for the last fifteen months.

Jeremiah Owyang, a sr analyst for Forrester Research and general internet strategist, was one of the first media professionals to reach out and offer to give us a read Friday night. Within a few hours, I was both surprised and impressed to see his review of the research. It’s a very fair commentary. (Forrester has been at this for years.) Like many v1 TechCrunch products, Jeremiah is correct that the report offers a lot of valuable data and needs additional polish.

We’d love more constructive criticism about our latest research initiative. If you’d like a chance to review the 2008 Year In Review and share your recommendations, please contact us.