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Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups
- kunle 13y agoZenpayroll was W'12
- dmor 13y agoFixed
- xo_Ox 13y agoWhy does this matter? Who cares what happens 1 month out?
- anateus 13y agoI've finally put my finger on what's been rubbing me the wrong about these. Although these are mostly factual and non-sensational, they smack of cable-news disease. The sort of preoccupation with a continuous update that has people glued to news and stock tickers. For some things, a stream of information is useful. But for this sort of stuff I feel it fosters a climate of more short term thinking and concentrating on the wrong things in the community at large. In a year, releasing and examining these numbers is going to be really valuable. But right now, I feel like it's CNBC for Startups (hint: that's not a good thing).
- themgt 13y agoYep, and it has the same cable news echo-chamber effect of creating self-fulfilling prophecies off weak fundamentals.
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- stbullard 13y agoTitle needs an Oxford comma. (I first read "Strikingly" as a comment on how surprising it was that Buildzoom and Bitnami were leading.)
- dangoldin 13y agoDefinitely agree. I wonder if there's a cultural difference too. I'm pretty much a native English speaker and still fell for it.
- etvmueller 13y agoI agree for the same reason; however, this is a matter of style and decision makers offer differing opinions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
- justhw 13y agoAlexa is the last place you want to get data from.
- snake_plissken 13y agohalf of these companies don't do anything other than conglomerate information and present it nicely. How are they supposed to make money?
- ridruejo 13y agoIsn't that what Google does too?
- ivankirigin 13y agoWithout 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 http://blog.kirigin.com/angel A simple thought experiment: how is this different from a random ranking? How would you know?
- benologist 13y agoThis 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?).
- tomasien 13y agoDanielle, 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.