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Deadpooled and Also-Rans

Deadpooled and Also-Rans. What Crunchbase tells us about location companies. Crunchbase. CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. Open API: http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/company/facebook.js Yay, JSON!. Methodology.

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Deadpooled and Also-Rans

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  1. Deadpooled and Also-Rans What Crunchbase tells us about location companies

  2. Crunchbase • CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. • Open API: http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/company/facebook.js • Yay, JSON!

  3. Methodology • DFS (depth first search) of competitors belonging to selected companies (Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Brightkite, SimpleGeo, etc) • Generate list of competitors, repeat DFS search on list • Yielded 1945 unique companies • Resulted in 1505 companies with data

  4. Methodology • Initial attempt to segment on tags using hierarchical clustering. Tags were too unique, too sparse • Performed clustering using category tag • Reduced to 6 categories

  5. Higher in the plot occurs more frequently • Terms close to each other are more related

  6. Raw counts

  7. Percentages

  8. Adjusted IPO * Removed companies not location focused

  9. Acquiring Companies

  10. Media on Acquisitions

  11. Amount Raised for Web * Skewed by FaceBook, Twitter, Groupon, Aol

  12. Amount raised for Games

  13. Amount raised for mobile

  14. Parting thoughts • Crunchbase is a good starting point for data collection • Check SEC S-1 filings for IPOs • Scrape online for acquisitions (for amounts disclosed) • Verify which companies are still alive • Apologies for the teaser

  15. Sophia Parafina @spara http://github.com/spara

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