Comments on: Version 2 Of CrunchBase Released

By: Business News Research » CrunchBase Now Integrated With LinkedIn API

Business News Research » CrunchBase Now Integrated With LinkedIn API — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:40:52 +0000

[...] will shortly be releasing a new version of CrunchBase, the company and people database wiki that you often see linked to here on [...]

By: CrunchBase Now Integrated With LinkedIn API

CrunchBase Now Integrated With LinkedIn API — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:33:26 +0000

[...] will shortly be releasing a new version of CrunchBase, the company and people database wiki that you often see linked to here on [...]

By: Trace Johnson

Trace Johnson — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:29:04 +0000

CrunchBase is an excellent tool, especially the SEO benefits it provides companies. You have spots 3 & 4 if you Google “Mpayy”. Thank you!

The re-design is far friendlier as well.

The problem with CrunchBase’s current pursuit of Wikipedia-esque ease of use is that the review process is somewhat lacking. It is possible to make multiple overlapping edits, and let a couple of weeks go by before edits are posted. Further, some edits are posted and later revised without any notice to the original author. This editing process makes connecting products, people and companies not as friendly.

Henry Work, who monitors CrunchBase feedback is incredibly helpful.

All the best -

Trace Johnson

Henry

By: Introducing the newly re-designed CrunchBase « CrunchBase Blog

Introducing the newly re-designed CrunchBase « CrunchBase Blog — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:40:07 +0000

[...] been working on Version 2 of CrunchBase, a directory of startups and people and investors.Here is my boss explaining the stuff we’ve put into the new version. [...]

By: Carlo Maglinao

Carlo Maglinao — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:55:42 +0000

Nice crunchbase updates. Another review here: http://tinyurl.com/3yzdxo

By: d3bruts1d

d3bruts1d — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:41:54 +0000

I find CrunchBase, specifically when tacked onto the end of a TC post to be extremely aggravating, annoying, and useless. Surely it isn’t just me that feels this way, is it??

I’d love to offer a way to make it better (other than adding a “never show this shit again” button), but seriously it offers no value to me.

Thankfully it’s easy enough to block.

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:33:39 +0000

Why did you choose RoR instated of PHP?

By: uploadchoice

uploadchoice — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:33:43 +0000

Nice to note that you’re adding good stuffs there!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:11:02 +0000

Have your heard of the german de.startupwiki.org - projekt? The english version will be coming soon

By: Jay Adair

Jay Adair — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:06:07 +0000

Congrats to everyone involved, the new version is a lot better. It’s really fast to search. The only bad point is that we’re not in there.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:28:21 +0000

@#31 - i should have read comments before commenting.. i didnt realize the php/RoR discussion was hot in your guys’ office…

a lot of us (readers) are web developers, we’d love the juicy scoop on who’s saying what around the office… (then of course we will tell those we disagree with that they are wrong… it’s a programmer thing lol.. j/k about the “Wrong” part… )

who’s leaning toward the camp of “why didn’t we do this in php?” … curious…

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:25:47 +0000

Nice work TC crew.

VentureDeal.com offers a full featured online relational database with thousands of companies, transactions, people and venture capital firms, for only $25 per month…not thousands…

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:16:36 +0000

So in regards to editing, I would assume that only the owners of each company are given authority and you guys will work to approve the who?

Well thanks for creating this (helps w/traffic) and working towards making it even better!

By: Auston

Auston — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:15:17 +0000

Should have done it in php… lol

By: AW

AW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:49:05 +0000

@38:

Because it is incredibly useful? Other people would use it because they want to add value to their content. =D

By: dmix

dmix — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:17:43 +0000

Thanks for the public edits. I’ve emailed quite a few times about a change in my start-ups founders and also about removing my phone number off the site. I was receiving lots of phone calls from people trying to sell me Content Delivery Networks.

The site seems to be a great tool for companies looking to reach entrepreneurs.

By: Xavierv

Xavierv — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:44:30 +0000

It’s definitely heading towards a lucrative direction. Why would bloggers be interested in using your widgets though?
Crunchbase Widget: Bloggers Advertise For Free?

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:35:32 +0000

@Robin - this is something we’re very eager to implement so look for it in the coming weeks

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:32:19 +0000

ditching php for RoR?? have you gone mad?

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:49:39 +0000

Would be interesting to have a category breakdown in countries / regions, instead of having to search specific countries. Other than that, there’s value in both the actual database and the extra pageviews and search engine juice, so congrats!

By: Andy Gongea

Andy Gongea — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:55:30 +0000

Nice, clean and functional. Not to mention useful.

Kudos for the new version.

By: rubu

rubu — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:46:09 +0000

So yes, companies will be able to edit all of their own information.

By: techmine

techmine — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:46:01 +0000

Very nicely done. I wish the logos are a bit more flashy and bigger.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:31:54 +0000

AW - that exact topic is the subject of an office pool here at TechCrunch.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:31:31 +0000

Thanks MikeT