kirill

Aneesh, it's hard to provide an objective experience if you use fake data. Nevertheles, based on the data we analyzed, a 500k valuation was the most likely outcome for the profiles of entrepreneurs you entered, working on a startup for approx 2 hrs/week. Remember that this is a 3-year prediction and the hours is relevant to that initial timeframe pre-funding. Many of those teams will have increased their hours/week during those three years; and 500k is an indication that they are most likely to achieve an angel round within 3 years, but not much more.

Babul - we aim to respond to every email and query, sorry to hear your experience. Feel free to email me: [email protected] with more details and if you think we didn't cover any particular issue properly. Thanks.

Actually, we're pretty serious about this. Connecting a large number of people in the startup industry -is- a big opportunity in itself (and we've already gotten a high level of traction on that front). However, we've found enough evidence to suggest that data can be used to significantly improve decision-making within it also, which is even more valuable.

In the public markets, there's already a ton of competition, mostly because of the availability and quantity of publicly-available data. Instead of competing with thousands of other established companies and investors in analyzing public companies, we've managed to solve the problem of collecting large amounts of data on startup companies instead, into which more than $67 billion was invested last year in cash in the US alone.

Even though Google is an anomaly (black swan:), as you can see in the Techcrunch article, YouNoodle would've still predicted an $80M+ valuation for Google, in part because of the high quality team and advisors they managed to assemble from the start, including Ram Shriram and Andy Bechtolsheim.