Comments on: BizShark Takes A Crack At Creating An Automated CrunchBase

By: Aline Smith

Aline Smith — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:00:01 +0000

Hello! You can also find information about a website, using http://www.estimix.com . – it seems to provide competitive analysis for free.

By: Jim Bo

Jim Bo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:25:38 +0000

Lame.

By: bizshark لجلب معلومات شاملة عن موقعك | مجلة التقنيات و الحاسوب

bizshark لجلب معلومات شاملة عن موقعك | مجلة التقنيات و الحاسوب — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:16:50 +0000

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By: H.K.

H.K. — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:54:24 +0000

Bizshark has a good platform to work off of. There is a demand out there and if the information is good, the people will come (with their wallets). I like their algorithm structure and caution in letting too many parties influence their provided results. I would however double check the security/reputation with another security site like justaskgemalto.

By: The Bridge | The start-ups that help the start-ups..

The Bridge | The start-ups that help the start-ups.. — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:35:57 +0000

[...] How about new projects? BizShark (Guy Kawasaki is an advisor) is a ‘crunchbase on steroids’, that qualifies itself as an internet business search engine, based on aggregation and algorithm. “It pulls together the latest business profiles, news, financials, web analytics, social footprint, marketing strategies, and other business information by searching across more than 50 Internet business databases” mentionned Techcrunch in its last article. [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:15:36 +0000

Interesting approach and some good data sources being used there – plus obviously great, clean look.

On some of the News feeds though (eg for Microsoft) there is a heavy overload of seemingly unfiltered content which makes it less useful for time-poor business users who want to instantly know the actual commercial activity etc.

We (StrategyEye.com – which is a different, hosted enterprise intelligence service for likes of Nokia etc) we use a combination of approaches but upfront do a lot of human definitions of an industry and companies to ensure that it extracts business-related information. Once that heavy legwork is done for any industry (currently digital media / cleantech) the system starts to become self-feeding under workflow process with a very low analyst touch.

This “Human IP + Filtering Technology + Workflow + Human Confirmation” gives us a base of both proprietary content (deal summaries, data extraction by analysts) as well as building up links to the long-tail of related online commentary.

Advantage of maybe doing upfront tighter definitions on the BizShark companies and refining feeds or algorithms to focus on commercial activity (as one option maybe) is that it will be much more useful for the adhoc exec who really wants to sift the information overload quickly – with still very low human costs.

By: Jeet

Jeet — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:07:12 +0000

Looks like a ‘cool’ version of cubestat.com to me )

By: Vauman

Vauman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:44:29 +0000

I like it too. I typed some companies and found information to all of them. Wish you guys a big success.

By: BizShark、自動情報収集プログラムで企業情報を集約化して提供 | KGRAND ONLINE NEWS

BizShark、自動情報収集プログラムで企業情報を集約化して提供 | KGRAND ONLINE NEWS — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:35:12 +0000

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By: BizShark、自動情報収集プログラムで企業情報を集約化して提供

BizShark、自動情報収集プログラムで企業情報を集約化して提供 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:57:56 +0000

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By: csshook

csshook — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:03:52 +0000

menu design showcase: very useful stuff.

http://www.cssh...com/menudesign/

Thanks

By: WiredMike

WiredMike — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:59:02 +0000

Funny, I actually owned that domain (BizShark.Com) back in 2006. Somebody found something useful for it!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:34:52 +0000

Did a search on twidox and http://www.twidox.com, which has been featured on Centernetworks, Techcrunch, TechCrunch UK, etc and is listed on CrunchBase, but still didn’t find anything. How comes?

By: NeoTechie

NeoTechie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:44:21 +0000

Extracting data from the best of the best and putting it in one place for further analysis is a great strategy. Biz Shark will be very useful consider the current state of the economy.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:38:30 +0000

Very well designed! I like it a lot, and it aggregates a lot of great information that I often need multiple browsers opened to review. I am sure I will be using this a lot.

By: Ray from BizShark

Ray from BizShark — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:30:34 +0000

BizShark just opened up on Monday, got indexed by Google around Tuesday, and got TechCrunched today. There are still a lot of websites and companies that we need to index and analyze, so please be patient for our system to discover your site.

By: Ray from BizShark

Ray from BizShark — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:26:37 +0000

BizShark’s main differentiator is its CompetitorSort algorithm. BizShark’s entire design revolves around helping you understand not just one business, but the entire competitive landscape.

So the question that BizShark answers is not only “What does this business do?”, but also “How well does this business perform against its competitors?”

By: ashu

ashu — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:20:46 +0000

This is definitely a nice tool for competitive analysis.

By: Ray from BizShark

Ray from BizShark — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:17:18 +0000

Thanks Leena, for your objective review. The debate between automatic, algorithmic data collection and human input has been raging for ages, and a good example is Google News vs traditional newspapers. Personally I think these two approaches can coexist in total package. Automatic algorithms are limited by the data they collect and the accuracy of the algorithm – both limited by humans. As a result, a completely automated approach will never be the panacea of all problems, and we don’t claim that it ever will be, as Memeorandum.com once did.

The main advantage of an automated approach is the ability to gather multiple sources, figure out which one is better, and then show the best data available. A very successful example of such is Digg, which leverages algorithms to harness the wisdom of the crowd. We’ve noticed that there has been a wealth of business information all over the Web, pioneered by CrunchBase. And we realized that there is an opportunity now to apply an algorithm to organize and analyze this information. We don’t know how far an automatic approach can push the boundary of business analytics, but we would like to test it out with BizShark.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:17:09 +0000

It looks nice – design wise, but actually using the site leaves a lot to be desired. The only one of these services I ever really use is Crunchbase – it’s organized perfectly in “wiki-ish” form. Other sites should take notes from Crunchbase.

By: Leo Kim

Leo Kim — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:13:08 +0000

@Leena, I just saw Quarkbase also uses crunchbase data [Reference: http://groups.g...i/web/sightings

By: I know i left my keys around here somewhere...

I know i left my keys around here somewhere... — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:07:51 +0000

Nice look, but it is also crazy wrong for a number of the companies I looked up.

By: Leo Kim

Leo Kim — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:07:33 +0000

http://www.bizs...?q=snapcasa.com is not working
Does this site works for companies or websites or urls?

By: Smart Babes Are Sexy Blog

Smart Babes Are Sexy Blog — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:46:51 +0000

NIcely executed, and a great use of using technology instead of human inputs to scale very quickly. They can and should focus their human input on just editing the results instead of collating them.

A little bit like Google vs. Mahalo, although not an exact analogy.

By: Michael Fruzzetti

Michael Fruzzetti — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:44:53 +0000

This is essentially the same service offered by Quarkbase. Bizshark’s design is easier on the eyes but can’t say that it has a competitive advantage over Crunchbase, Quarkbase or KillerStartups.