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Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Re: Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Post by diego »

Ranking these companies based on their website traffic is misleading at best. For example, #12 is a software vendor that just hit $100M in sales. It's clearly doing much better than similarly ranked companies.

http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/02/from_startup_to.html

Also, calling this site a startup (#42) seems like a stretch:

http://www.deadharddrive.com/

There seem to be several random websites with little traffic on the list, I just clicked on this one at random.

Re: Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Post by SingAlong »

diego wrote: post #2

Ranking these companies based on their website traffic is misleading at best. For example, #12 is a software vendor that just hit $100M in sales. It's clearly doing much better than similarly ranked companies. http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/02/from_startup_to.html Also, calling this site a startup (#42) seems like a stretch: http://www.deadharddrive.com/ There seem to be several random websites with little traf…

SitePoint considered a startup?

And at * #62 designbay

#63 logo.designbay

#64 graphic.designbay

#65 web.designbay *

So different subdomains are different startups? seriously wtf?

P.S: diego, you are right anyway. This post is surely written by an author who wrote it just for the sake of writing a blogpost not out of intention to share something interesting. Plain link bait

Re: Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Post by bobanderson »

SingAlong wrote: post #3
diego wrote: post #2

Ranking these companies based on their website traffic is misleading at best. For example, #12 is a software vendor that just hit $100M in sales. It's clearly doing much better than similarly ranked companies. http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/02/from_startup_to.html Also, calling this site a startup (#42) seems like a stretch: http://www.deadharddrive.com/ There seem to be several random websites with little traf…

SitePoint considered a startup? And at * #62 designbay #63 logo.designbay #64 graphic.designbay #65 web.designbay * So different subdomains are different startups? seriously wtf? P.S: diego, you are right anyway. This post is surely written by an author who wrote it just for the sake of writing a blogpost not out of intention to share something interesting. Plain link bait

LOL - did you guys even read the post?

"Sites from startup-australia.org are ranked and listed below. If you think that a site is missing, or that one oughtn’t be included on the list, then feel free to edit the wiki.

Sites are ranked based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic data."

So:

1) They don't compile the list, only rank the people on it. The Startup Australia wiki appears to be an openly editable list of startups. If you have a problem with who is on it, change it.

2) The data comes from Alexa and Compete so your point about random sites with little traffic is retarded.

3) The landing site has no advertising, so why would they bother link-baiting?

It's not the best list, but then again what does it matter? No one is going to win anything for being on it, so take it for what it appears to be, a fun resource for those of us interested in the Australian tech startup scene.

Re: Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Post by SingAlong »

bobanderson wrote: post #4
SingAlong wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SitePoint considered a startup? And at * #62 designbay #63 logo.designbay #64 graphic.designbay #65 web.designbay * So different subdomains are different startups? seriously wtf? P.S: diego, you are right anyway. This post is surely written by an author who wrote it just for the sake of writing a blogpost not out of intention to share something interesting. Plain link bait

LOL - did you guys even read the post? "Sites from startup-australia.org are ranked and listed below. If you think that a site is missing, or that one oughtn’t be included on the list, then feel free to edit the wiki. Sites are ranked based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic data." So: 1) They don't compile the list, only rank the people on it. The Startup Australia wiki appears to be an openly editable list…

ya. I didn't notice that. And very few will notice that.

I just read the factors of ranking (Alexa rank, hitwise etc) adn then moved on to look at the table, which most will do.

Re: Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Post by tomaitch »

Rather than promote the scene, lists like this make it starkly apparent just how little startup activity there is in AU.

On seeing a headline like this my first reaction is always "there are 100 startups in Australia??", followed upon reading the list by "apparently not".

The rankings of some of those sites are a real worry. A site with an Alexa rank > 1000000 doesn't deserve to be on a top list of anything.

They'd be best to limit it to 50 or even 25.

Re: Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Post by nreece »

diego wrote: post #2

Ranking these companies based on their website traffic is misleading at best. For example, #12 is a software vendor that just hit $100M in sales. It's clearly doing much better than similarly ranked companies. http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/02/from_startup_to.html Also, calling this site a startup (#42) seems like a stretch: http://www.deadharddrive.com/ There seem to be several random websites with little traf…

Would it be fair to consider Atlassian a startup?

Re: Top 100 Australian Web Startups - April 09

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Post by tjmc »

nreece wrote: post #5

Websites are ranked based on traffic. Startups are ranked based on revenue. Btw, we are ranked #25 on this list - http://feedity.com

Yes, it would be interesting to see the latter for Aussie web startups. You've got to wonder about a list that excludes Atlassian and Campaign Monitor. It should also list Stateless Systems rather than their products (cushycms, bugmenot, etc)
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