The startup world, ranked and visualized

The way this is laid out it looks like the entities that are in a row are associated, it's confusing. You name the columns at the top and label the ranks on the left.<p>I love the use of different-sized circles, but I feel like you're comparing apples to oranges in a way. I think the circles should all be relative to one master size (#1) only their own category; rather than comparing Ron Conway to Google his circle could be of equal size. This way when searching for entities their circles would make more sense because the user is aware of the consistent max circle size. By comparing Conway to Google you're giving up a wider scale you could be using for the Peoples' circles.<p>Still though, cool project. I found the 5-person startup I'm interning at this summer :) Makes for a great crash-course on who matters if someone were trying to study up on the startup scene.

I like the interface design.<p>Questions:<p>Dave McClure at #3, Paul Graham at #943; whereas 500 Startups is at #41, and Y Combinator is at #15?<p>Why is 500 Startups classified as a financial firm, whereas Y Combinator is classified as a company?<p>Also, I'm surprised that Andreessen Horowitz is ranked #67 of financial firms (given that Marc Andreessen is ranked #14), and Elon Musk is #119 for people. I would have thought they'd both be ranked much higher.

Co-builder of this here. Hope you like it! Don't forget to click on a dot - then you can walk the graph of relationships among startups, people, and financial firms.

This reminds me of an analysis I once did: <a href="https://github.com/astanway/Crunchbase-Network-Analysis" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/astanway/Crunchbase-Network-Analysis</a><p>The data from Crunchbase is very, very dirty, but I managed to clean it up a lot. Feel free to fork if you want pre-built NetworkX graphs.

Great to see Pejman on the list. His Plug and Play facility has some great companies renting spaces and interesting events come through.<p>I miss attending events when a prior startup was based there.

Want to hustle? This is a great list to go through and familiarize yourself with these people, what they make, what they need, how you can help them, what you might ask them for if they ever offered to help you, etc. Great way to visualize Crunchbase, which is a great resource.

Can you augment the data set with Angellist? There's more info there than on crunchbase for newer startups

MySpace ahead of Apple? That about sums up my opinion of crunchbase.

Minor pagination issue: when you click "next" the "prev" link takes its place. I went back and forth between the first page and second page a couple times before noticing.<p>Very nice work!

There will be a few surprises in any system...<p>But Yahoo ahead of Facebook, Amazon and Apple?<p>Myspace ahead of Apple?<p>Paul Graham is #943 among people?<p>Cool project, even with the eyebrow-raising results.

I think you can only say that this is a visualization of how things are in Crunchbase, not "the startup world" in general. It's ranking things based on the number of connections each thing has. For angel investors this may be a good indicator, but not necessarily for companies or VC firms.

Yay! I'm #21 on the angel list. I should get more of my stuff in crunchbase (more than half are missing)

Did some random searches. Noticed quite a bit of data missing, but I was searching for older stuff.<p>Good luck, useful.

Nice work. Interesting way to visualize.<p>One request, in the UI, where you have checkboxes, can you add 'exclusive' select. So for example, I want to see ONLY 'acquisitions' made; right now, we have to deselect everything else manually.

Very cool, but you really need to work on the algorithm. It's easy to pick out the reason why MySpace might be found higher than Facebook or as a few people have pointed out, PG vs YCombinator.<p>But my last start-up, which I shutdown over a year ago (HearWhere, 19,883) is ranked as more influential than companies that are significantly larger traffic that are still operating (example, AllRecipes, 23,087).<p>Nice to think I'm that influential, but I can assure you, I'm not (yet ;))

The "impartial algorithm" line was good for a laugh.

Nice reminder that Yahoo is far from down and out, despite what you hear amongst the technorati these days.

crunchbase is to the "start-up world"-metrics what alexa is to web-metrics.

Apple #11??

myspace?