This could be valuable, especially for VC firms, and for startups who are looking to pitch themselves.<p>That said, I'm a data scientist, and if your startup ranks poorly, there's no way for big data to estimate your ingenuity and ability to creatively improve your product.<p>Data science works, but it doesn't govern the universe.
I really like the idea of applying big data to startups and helping them do benchmarking with other startups. It would be interesting to see the results or case studies of how some startups have benefitted from this data. I understand this might be too soon to make that inference, but might be something to keep in mind for near future.
I love reading the annual report this team sends out every year. It's smart to use tools like mailchimp, google analytics etc. What about something like optimizely? Also, I assume there's the ability to use the startups own tools for automated data collection?
This would be great if it really worked :(<p>As I was expecting:<p>Sorry! Something went wrong while processing your data.
Please contact us at support@startupcompass.co<p>As always, people (including Steve) forget V in MVP.
This platform could be ridiculously valuable. Metrics are clearly pivotal to any startup, but it's often very hard to know how you stack up vs. the competition. Congrats Bjoern and team.
The reality is private companies is where the value creation happens. The public market is too unwieldy.<p>So we need an entirely new series of metrics for companies. This is one of them.
Yet another testament the software is eating the world. What we are seeing is a proof of it - startups get real-world big data analytics. The cost of figuring out if they are really making progress compared to their own targets and compared to peers/competitors, just got slashed by 10x to 100x. I think this product has a good chance of becoming the "holy grail" in the process which Steve Blank calls"customer discovery".
It sounds great and I'm a partner in a startup that I think this could be super helpful for but I can't get the page to load. curl -L <a href="http://www.compass.co" rel="nofollow">http://www.compass.co</a> gets websites are turned off message and the latest safari and chrome on OS X 10.9.1 get blank responses back.