Comments on: A Peek At CrunchBase

By: Digital Meld Now Listed In CrunchBase | Digital Meld

Digital Meld Now Listed In CrunchBase | Digital Meld — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:01:06 +0000

[...] with what CrunchBase is, it is a database of technology and web companies started by the guys at TechCrunch. Basically, if you want to get all of the inside information about tech companies such as their [...]

By: Search CrunchBase.com Directly From Your Browser | Addoursearch.com | Featured Sites

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:35:35 +0000

[...] and foundations. Not too bad considering the site was first launched less than a year ago in October 2007. (it also doesn’t hurt that CrunchBase is associated with one of the top 10 blogs on the [...]

By: CrunchBase Revolt | Jonny Tokyo

CrunchBase Revolt | Jonny Tokyo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:03:20 +0000

[...] a few noticeable complaints TechCrunch apparently discontinued that policy and instead started distributing a lightweight widget beneath each cover story that [...]

By: Tech Soapbox

Tech Soapbox — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:08:59 +0000

TechCrunch, the uglified beast that is Crunchbase, and a simple solution…

For those that read TechCrunch, you are obviously aware of the ugly infestation that is Crunch Base.
The idea is simple – while TechCrunch covers the news, Crunch Base is where they keep persistent profiles on each company. This profile includes inves…

By: Tek

Tek — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:02:07 +0000

Great idea, but how can I embed the widgets myself, or where can I find the embed codes? Can someone please help? Thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:42:45 +0000

Interesting site / service. A couple of observations …

1. Nicely designed / laid out … easy to get around, read, etc…
2. How is it different from Killer Startups (http://www.killerstartups.com/)? One thing I appreciate about KS is their commentary about the startup, esp. the competitors section (yes, I see where you all include that, but I gotta search it out) and the “some questions” section.
3. It be nice to include the Deadpool listing, as often times this is as instructive as the successes.
4. As blissfulthinking (65) sez, search would be nice: recent funding in the past xx days / months / years, location (in addition to a gmap mashup), latest round (i.e., find me all “recent” C round funding events), and so on … this list can obviously grow endlessly.

Again, like the site and your plans for it … good luck and have fun working on it … and I foresee using it often. Thanks.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:05:38 +0000

Yep, you’re going to give away what Thomson and Dow Jones charge thousands for. That’s not “disruptive.” It’s dumb.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:24:35 +0000

Sounds like an awesome plan!

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:54:44 +0000

I hope this works out for you people!
Uh, would you like a little “funding”?

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: webonics

webonics — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:27:39 +0000

I think CrunchBase is useful and has lots of good background information on companies. But like everyone else, linking to the Crunchbase record for a company rather than directly linking to the company used to drive me crazy.

Thanks for listening to user feedback and taking an innovative approach to resolve the issue!

By: Jason Douglas

Jason Douglas — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:58:14 +0000

>>Will you please please please open up crunchbase via webservices!?? >>PLEEEAAASSEEE???

Freebase.com would be perfect for that and we’d be happy to help. We already have some venture-related company info and would be delighted to pool together with CrunchBase on making the best open, free and comprehensive catalog of venture-backed companies… with web services.

Some of the data already there:
http://www.free..._funded_company

A sample app flash app built using the Freebase web services:
http://mqlx.com...on/VentureSpin/

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:17:47 +0000

I love it! Please continue posting these widgets!

By: Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:46:48 +0000

“As of today that policy is being discontinued.”

Thank you!

You might also consider something simple at the start or end of a post like,

CrunchBase: Name of Co., Name of 2nd Co.

But all your ideas for opening up CrunchBase sound great. That’s becoming a really awesome reference tool.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:20:03 +0000

I must say that your organization is keen on listening to its readers. I hold up my glass and make a toast in your name for I only wish others would do the same. Mainly because this will now drive traffic down for your most useful database, but will in turn provide more customer satisfaction. Namely me!

By: Auston

Auston — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:11:01 +0000

I would even help open up CrunchBase for free!

By: Auston

Auston — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:07:55 +0000

Hey,

Will you please please please open up crunchbase via webservices!?? PLEEEAAASSEEE???

By: blissfulthinking

blissfulthinking — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:06:50 +0000

Do you think you could make Crunchbase more searchable? Just an advanced search function that allowed me to search specific fields would be nice – location for example?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:43:42 +0000

You gotta love adblockplus!

@54, see above.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:27:56 +0000

Bugs –
When you click on link and it goes to the company overview, the list of compnies on the right side bar disappears, Last updates and user reveiw is overlapping with the ads. When you go back, the state is not maintained that the list goes back to A-M.

Enhancements –
It will be nice to list(search) it by categories. May be you can ask the representative of each company to add a description of the company and choose a category.

By: Hubert Michaux

Hubert Michaux — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:15:39 +0000

Hi Michael,
any plan to deportalise the CrunchBase widgets ? (like the ones you add at the bottom of your blog posts), it would be cool to have these on my wordpress blog too, I would just need to select the companies I am talking about in a drop down list and voila : the widget shows the companies details.

By: Anonymo

Anonymo — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:17:10 +0000

Gotta say this widget is truly intrusive. Crunchbase = Clutter!

By: mook

mook — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:53:24 +0000

Thanks guys.
While CrunchBase is on my bookmarks and love it, it was really annoying to have to go through it to get to the linked site.

Keep up the good work!

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:15:41 +0000

I like the idea of turning up the site into wiki and in addition you are going to add Facebook but not sure how you’re going to keep it non spammy.

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:00:41 +0000

Do you allow companies to update their information?

Will be providing an edit function of some sort for the initial IP address or username that made the submission?

By: chimaera

chimaera — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:53:48 +0000

I was one of those that hated the links to crunchbase, so this is a fantastic start. However, the widgets to take up a fair amount of space and as mentioned above, surely detract from the value advertisers get. Also as already mentioned, if you have three posts about Facebook per page, we don’t really need to see three lots of identical information – or information about companies we are familiar with.

A great solution would be to make the widget collapsable, so it just displays the top bar (as it does while loading), allowing you to click it to expand and see the info. It could either load in the background, or load on click (which would get around the annoyingly slow load).