Or Facebook, mentioned CONSTANTLY on TechCrunch, which is currently at a market cap of $68 billion on the public exchange. Or many startups that get mentioned

Or Facebook, mentioned CONSTANTLY on TechCrunch, which is currently at a market cap of $68 billion on the public exchange. Or many startups that get mentioned once on TechCrunch and never again and then fail. I agree that the scatterplot would be interesting, but I think you are supposing that the answer will come out the way you expect.