So how can a company get listed here?
How do they make money?
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Re: How do they make money?
#52It looks like they think Quora is a product of LinkedIn. Judging from the comments here, and from my personal review, the facts of the site seem to be very wrong. However, the design is nice.
I disagree about the design part. This would work so much better as tabular data. Also, as someone said earlier, having to click that X to view another company's information is a pain in the ass. They also use the word "sort" when they actually mean "filter".
Re: How do they make money?
#53So only LinkedIn sells data? I find that a bit surprising.
OkCupid sold a sample of their dataset for $1,000, but I can't find it on Infochimps anymore.
Re: How do they make money?
#54Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.
Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn't it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?
I used to think this way too, but the rise of touchscreen devices has meant that hover-based events restrict your audience.
Re: How do they make money?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Groupon isn't going to give its (recent) investors a return on what they put in, but they've always been profitable ; their overheads are tiny, and they take 50% of the revenue from each deal for themselves. I have no idea how Grooveshark ever made or plans to make any money (heck, when I worked at last.fm we were celebrating our most successful year ever in which we'd only lost $1m. 5/6 of our income had come from a…
I didn't know Kickstarter was a non-profit organization, I didn't find it on their website, would you mind pointing it to me? For Groupon, for me a profit is making more money than you spend and as you said they keep 50% of each deal but then they have to spend money to pay everything and also need a lot of advertisement. Therefore afaik they have no actual profit, which would mean returning money to the investors.
Not necessarily true. They have profit, just not as much profit as their investors would have liked, or expected.
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#56Correct me if I'm wrong. Kickstarter gets 5% of each successfully funded project. So if we open a Kickstarter stat page ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats ) what will we see there? 319M of successful dollars. 5% of this sum is about $16M. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has got more than $16M in expenses for 3 years? Really?
I had all the same objections. Their information sounds very outdated, especially how it applies to kickstarter.
Re: How do they make money?
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn't it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?
I used to think this way too, but the rise of touchscreen devices has meant that hover-based events restrict your audience.
So why not pop up a transient box on hover and a persistent box on click?
Re: How do they make money?
#58Correct me if I'm wrong. Kickstarter gets 5% of each successfully funded project. So if we open a Kickstarter stat page ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats ) what will we see there? 319M of successful dollars. 5% of this sum is about $16M. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has got more than $16M in expenses for 3 years? Really?
Site says they are non-profit => They don't turn profit.
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#59Cannot filter by profitable/non-profitable.
Re: How do they make money?
#60Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.
Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn't it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?
This is tabular data gone awry.