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Re: Show HN: Startup data 2000-2012 from CrunchBase

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Post by jpdoctor »

aaasen wrote: post #4

It's crazy that there are so many huge companies that I've never heard of. Instagram's acquisition was huge news at $1B, but I didn't hear a peep about Ariba at $4.3B or Genzyme at $20B. It's easy to think that consumer oriented web startups are what's hot, but this data proves otherwise.

> It's easy to think that consumer oriented web startups are what's hot, but this data proves otherwise.

I think what it proves: Crunchbase serves the PR segment of consumer oriented web companies, and fails to serve other segments well. Let's face it, it's not so much a database as it is part of the techcrunch PR machine.

Re: Show HN: Startup data 2000-2012 from CrunchBase

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Post by ipedrazas »

ig1 wrote: post #10

(I run SeedTable which also does analytics on Crunchbase data) The problem with ranking by funding/acquisition amounts is the data is pretty dirty, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be incorrect data (because someone fat fingered a number to be an order of magnitude larger, or put a foreign currency amount in as USD). Although the acq data is better than the funding data. You might also want to extract st…

Still, on that table we can see that on 2012 there was less funding and less acquisition.

Will be interesting to see what happens during 2013 but it seems that there's not as much money as on 2010/2011

Re: Show HN: Startup data 2000-2012 from CrunchBase

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Post by hkmurakami »

aaasen wrote: post #4

It's crazy that there are so many huge companies that I've never heard of. Instagram's acquisition was huge news at $1B, but I didn't hear a peep about Ariba at $4.3B or Genzyme at $20B. It's easy to think that consumer oriented web startups are what's hot, but this data proves otherwise.

One thing to consider is how long each of these companies hd been in existence before getting acquired. One thing with consumer web is that the time between conception and exit is comparatively short compared to other industries.

Re: Show HN: Startup data 2000-2012 from CrunchBase

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Post by ig1 »

ipedrazas wrote: post #12
ig1 wrote: post #10

(I run SeedTable which also does analytics on Crunchbase data) The problem with ranking by funding/acquisition amounts is the data is pretty dirty, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be incorrect data (because someone fat fingered a number to be an order of magnitude larger, or put a foreign currency amount in as USD). Although the acq data is better than the funding data. You might also want to extract st…

Still, on that table we can see that on 2012 there was less funding and less acquisition. Will be interesting to see what happens during 2013 but it seems that there's not as much money as on 2010/2011

Yes the counted metrics are much more reliable.

It's much harder for TC to misenter an acquisition/funding round then it is for them accidentally add an extra zero to a number.

Re: Show HN: Startup data 2000-2012 from CrunchBase

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Post by [deleted] »

jpdoctor wrote: post #8

Crunchbase is pretty incomplete before 2004 it seems. Several of the comm companies I checked were missing. Edit: Upon further testing, it seems that many of the communications wipeouts ($40+M) from that era are missing. It's almost as if the people who funded them don't want the magnitude of the mistakes in the record. Here's an example: Photonex, raised $170M [1] over the course of their lifetime and not a trace on…

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