[dmor]

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.

[joshbetz]

Except for the part where there are 10 companies ranked higher than Apple...

[drats]

Given what this is ranking I am surprised they are so high, this has nothing to do with market cap, cash on hand or the devotion of fans.

[joshbetz]

What does it have to do with?

The 217,000 most important companies, financial firms, and people...

[yariang]

Why did you stop there though?

"...in the startup world..."

In fact, I am surprised to see a lot of non-startup companies like Nokia listed quite highly.

[joshbetz]

So Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are in the startup world, but Apple isn't?

[herdrick]

Me too.

[AVTizzle]

Apple is in the startup world. How different would the startup economy be without Apple's platforms to develop, deploy, and discover on?