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So someone should take Crunchbase and sort for startups that raised a seed without a follow-on round within 13 months. Would that not be the same info?
by josh2600 14y ago
So someone should take Crunchbase and sort for startups that raised a seed without a follow-on round within 13 months.
Would that not be the same info?
- tzakrajs 14y agoI can think of one way to find out for sure.
- robryan 14y agoProbably where the information come from. The price seems to be more a function of the limited market of potential customers than anything amazing about the data contained.
- rdl 14y agoI assume they are pulling from Crunchbase, but it's not like people have any incentive to keep Crunchbase updated (in a lot of cases, you don't want people to know you just raised $1.5mm a year or two after your initial seed money).
- 777466 14y ago> (in a lot of cases, you don't want people to know you just raised $1.5mm a year or two after your initial seed money). Why? What kinds of signals does that send?
- rdl 14y agoTo channel Biggie Smalls via Ben Horowitz, "don't you know Bad Boys move in silence and violence?". If competitors don't know you're well funded, they're more likely to ignore you. On a more practical level, it keeps the bottom feeder companies which troll crunchbase/techcrunch/etc and spam you with recruiting/etc. offers for months away. There's not a lot of upside in letting people know you're funded before a product is launched.