The startup world, ranked and visualized

#1

Post by dbrush » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 1:36 AM UTC

The startup world, ranked and visualized
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Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

#2

Post by herdrick » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 1:44 AM UTC

Co-builder of this here. Hope you like it! Don't forget to click on a dot - then you can walk the graph of relationships among startups, people, and financial firms.

Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

#3

Post by joshu » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 1:52 AM UTC

Yay! I'm #21 on the angel list. I should get more of my stuff in crunchbase (more than half are missing)

Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

#4

Post by staunch » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 2:04 AM UTC

Minor pagination issue: when you click "next" the "prev" link takes its place. I went back and forth between the first page and second page a couple times before noticing.

Very nice work!

Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 2:05 AM UTC

joshu wrote: post #3

Yay! I'm #21 on the angel list. I should get more of my stuff in crunchbase (more than half are missing)

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Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

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Post by herdrick » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 2:22 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #4

Minor pagination issue: when you click "next" the "prev" link takes its place. I went back and forth between the first page and second page a couple times before noticing. Very nice work!

Glad you like it! You're right - that pagination would be better if the 'next' link behaved better. We'll fix it sometime soonish.

Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

#7

Post by mwmnj » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 2:23 AM UTC

myspace?

Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

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Post by herdrick » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 2:27 AM UTC

mwmnj wrote: post #7

myspace?

Yep, there are a number of surprises. For one thing, this is cumulative, so deals made and competitor relationships from 2005 are as good as from 2012. For another, having a well-flushed out Crunchbase profile makes all the difference.

Try clicking on MySpace's blue dot and see what is connected to it.

Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

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Post by dbecker » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 2:30 AM UTC

There will be a few surprises in any system...

But Yahoo ahead of Facebook, Amazon and Apple?

Myspace ahead of Apple?

Paul Graham is #943 among people?

Cool project, even with the eyebrow-raising results.

Re: The startup world, ranked and visualized

#10

Post by blo » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 2:33 AM UTC

Can you augment the data set with Angellist? There's more info there than on crunchbase for newer startups