Title needs an Oxford comma. (I first read "Strikingly" as a comment on how surprising it was that Buildzoom and Bitnami were leading.)
Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
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Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#12Alexa is the last place you want to get data from.
Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#13Title needs an Oxford comma. (I first read "Strikingly" as a comment on how surprising it was that Buildzoom and Bitnami were leading.)
Definitely agree. I wonder if there's a cultural difference too. I'm pretty much a native English speaker and still fell for it.
Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#14half of these companies don't do anything other than conglomerate information and present it nicely. How are they supposed to make money?
Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#15Without a mapping of a company's score to its value, these ratings are non-sensical. Considering probably only public data is the input and the actual function isn't open, there is great reason to doubt the rating.
I've made a similar exploration of W13. My scoring is my personal biased judgement. The whole effort isn't to get a US News Top 100 list, but to better understand the rating system itself. http://blog.kirigin.com/angel
A simple thought experiment: how is this different from a random ranking? How would you know?
Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#16Title needs an Oxford comma. (I first read "Strikingly" as a comment on how surprising it was that Buildzoom and Bitnami were leading.)
I agree for the same reason; however, this is a matter of style and decision makers offer differing opinions:
Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#17This dataset you're compiling gets less interesting with every new lens we look at it through. You're YC and you're 500S and there must be a way to get data nobody else has access to that really indicates growth and success - like headcount, who's hiring, the 'true' positions they're filling (vp of nobody?).
Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#18half of these companies don't do anything other than conglomerate information and present it nicely. How are they supposed to make money?
Isn't that what Google does too?
Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
#19Danielle, have you heard about what Paul Singh is doing with dashboard.io? He basically has made a product out of diagnosing this shit realllllly in depth.