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Re:AOL: Hand Over Crunchbase and Nobody Gets Hurt by blizkreeg on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @04:33PM (#2384307)
There is an API to get a lot of data out of CrunchBase even now and people are doing interesting mashups of the data. I'm not sure business opportunity is the right word since Michael's vision for CB is/was an open, wiki-style research/analysis tool.
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Re:AOL: Hand Over Crunchbase and Nobody Gets Hurt by troymc on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @08:40PM (#2385239)
Just because the data is open doesn't mean there's no business opportunity. There are plenty of businesses built on using open data.

Example 1: Some businesses publish and sell paper books containing Wikipedia articles.

Example 2: CloudMade provides platforms for building web and mobile apps using OSM data (CC-BY-SA 2).

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