Tonight is the annual Entrepreneur of the Year awards for Austin, Texas. I thought it would be interesting to make some predictions based on no inside information, but just my gut instinct. Tomorrow we will see if I came close at all.

American Campus Communities, Bill Bayless. I know the company has been growing and Bill has been doing a great job. I think they will win an award this year.

MessageOne, Mike Rosenfelt and Satin Marchandani. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that they will win an award tonight. They have been working hard for many years, through the tech bust, and they’ve been closing some business recently. Plus Adam Dell is an investor and it’s just in the family blood (brother Michael Dell won at a regional and national level many years ago).

Rackspace, Graham Weston, et al. These guys have done a great job at Rackspace, and they host tons of high traffic websites, including YouTube before they were bought by Google. Once Google moves all the YouTube stuff over to their own infrastructure Rackspace will probably see sales decrease by about $1M a month, but perhaps an award will be a nice consolation prize.

American Youthworks, Richard Halpin. They are pretty well known and servicing the community very well. I will say they will win an award, even though Mobile Loaves & Fishes has been pretty high profile lately.