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Re:Startup that Predicts Success of Other Startups by nickb on Monday February 18, 2008 @09:33AM (#118128)
“Give us some information, and we’ll give you some idea of what the company will be worth in five years”

Ridiculous. One of the silliest things I've ever read in NYTimes. Kedrosky was being way too kind on them.

As for their algorithm, it's probably along the lines of how connected you are on their site.

How did they score funding from Max Levchin? One of the cofounders worked at Slide. http://younoodle.com/about.php So I doubt it's due to their amazing AI alone.

It's just a social network, folks. You can make your own on Ning or Facebook.

A better predictor would probably be someone's comments here on N.YC.

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Re:Startup that Predicts Success of Other Startups by icky on Monday February 18, 2008 @12:50PM (#118226)
> A better predictor would probably be someone's comments here on N.YC.

Don't you mean, someone's karma, nickb? ;-)

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Re:Startup that Predicts Success of Other Startups by nickb on Monday February 18, 2008 @03:54PM (#118371)
No. Definitely comments :).
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Re:Startup that Predicts Success of Other Startups by yters on Monday February 18, 2008 @08:01PM (#118565)
And the best comments are recursive.
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