[beccax]

Makes good sense. What if instead there're badges for hackers based on their coding ability? What would you think of that? (Not that it's easy to compute of course.)

[davidw]

There could be a badge for people who create successful startups. It might look something like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/New100fro...

You would collect a lot of them from your customers or via an acquisition.

[bhc3]

Doesn't TopCoder somewhat address that?

http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=top_developers