[stevenj]

I like the interface design.

Questions:

Dave McClure at #3, Paul Graham at #943; whereas 500 Startups is at #41, and Y Combinator is at #15?

Why is 500 Startups classified as a financial firm, whereas Y Combinator is classified as a company?

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.

[herdrick]

Thanks! We like to keep it clean.

In the data source, TechCrunch's Crunchbase, the influence of Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, et al. is captured in YC the company, and Marc Andreessen is split between his personal identity and AH. So you get a lot of odd things like that.

As for why YC got classified a company, who knows? It's accident of history. They should change it.

[izak30]

I don't think it's an accident. It's the way they talk about what they're doing. Partly because they don't want to be seen as VCs or an Incubator.

[bootload]

"... In the data source, TechCrunch's Crunchbase ..."

TechCrunch as a single data source. Are there any other sources used?

[dbrush]

At the moment no. This was one dataset we used to get started but, we intend to incorporate data from Angel List and other sources as well.

[bootload]

"... This was one dataset we used to get started but, we intend to incorporate data from Angel List and other sources as well. ..."

Sooner the better, TechCrunch data is iffy ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2913315731/ though useful for a start point. Did you do a select on the companies to check for multiple listings?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ycombinator-4

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator-2

[benmathes]

And we already have an API for you: http://angel.co/api

:-)