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The start-ups about start-ups..

I did not know but it seems that the ’start-ups eco-system‘ is now so big- and getting bigger and bigger- that is can be considered as an independant and monetizable market… The market has reached a critical number of actors - investors, entrepreneurs, service providers, potential employees, potential partners, big corporations- with needs that had never been adressed:

- how to give visibility to the newest start-ups?

- where to find comprehensive information about them?

- how and where to communicate their needs (funding, employees, partners)?

- how to assess the quality of the start-ups?

Generally this Business Information was lacking for very early stage companies...but, I have been seeing a lot of start-ups that have developped products about start-ups. All of you know Crunchbase and Tradevibes,both claming to offer

  

 

…..None of you ignore the success of YouNoodle, the first platform to have built a community (social network) around the newest start-ups it features. The platform aimed initially at promoting the start-up predictor tool its founders had developped (algorithm predicting the value of start-ups for investors) but it happened that it is mainly the social aspect of the website that made it take of: YouNoodle recently reached (read here on VentureBeat) 25 000 registered start-ups, even thought its commuinty tools remain VERY poor.

How about new projects? BizShark (Guy Kawasaki is an advisor) is a ‘crunchbase on steroids’, that qualifies itself as an internet business search engine, based on aggregation and algorithm. “It pulls together the latest business profiles, news, financials, web analytics, social footprint, marketing strategies, and other business information by searching across more than 50 Internet business databases” mentionned Techcrunch in its last article.

 Angelsoft 3.4 is also out (look at the story here). This is a platform I just discovered, but it has been around since 2004 matching investors with start-ups in the US. It just opened to VCs and added a bunch of new technical features to its platform, and the numbers are quite impressive: 442 angel groups and VCs, 14,852 investors, 3,100 startup applications coming in one month!

 

 

 

As a conclusion, all of these new plateforms for the ’start-ups eco-system’ are perfectible. There is room for optimization and innovation - innovative technologies that will allow us to better evaluate start-ups, innovative platforms that will match all of the ’start-ups community- more efficiently.

But definitely, online platform that help start-ups have a great future ahead!

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