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Crunchbase
Company blog · about.crunchbase.com/blogstartupsbusinessdata
Crunchbase is the company blog at about.crunchbase.com, writing about startups, business and data. Since 2017, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “101 Startup CEO Salaries at IPO”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Crunchbase's blog and pages as data sources on startup valuations, exits and ecosystems, such as IPO comparisons and startup-city rankings. Several other links are job postings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- 101 Startup CEO Salaries at IPO3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-04
- Here’s the Math Behind Teespring’s Painful Recapitalization2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-26
- /about-us/careers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-10
What Hacker News says?
- nl · 2019-09-18
its annualized revenue is growing at a rate of 143% year-to-year, with net retention of customer spending at 153%. Net dollar retention is the metric anyone judging a SAAS business should be looking at. 153% is nearly the best I've ever seen - Twilio was 155%, Slack 140% at IPO[1], Sendgrid 115%, Mulesoft 117%[2] [1] https://gopractice.io/blog/slack-ipo-reading-between-lines/ [2] https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/ne…
Comment linking /blog/net-dollar-retention/
on “Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO” Submitted Armenia's Deep-Tech Dream as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCrunchbase | Frontend & Platform Engineers | Remote US | Fulltime | Visa sponsorship | crunchbase.com * Crunchbase is the leading platform for professionals to discover innovative companies, connect with the people behind them, and pursue new opportunities. Our platform has best-in-class live data powered by our unique community of contributors, partners, in-house data experts, and machine learning systems. * Tech s…
Comment linking /about-us/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Teespring Undergoes Stiff Layoffs in Corporate “Restructuring” as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCrunchbase. Onsite (2 days/week remote). San Francisco. Engineering manager (fullstack) Frontend engineer (all levels) Scala engineers (all levels) Python engineers Data Scientists Data analysts & more https://about.crunchbase.com/about-us/careers/
Comment linking /about-us/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)”Submitted Palantir – a federal market lesson for VCs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt looks to me like they're roughly on-target for consumer startups. It's quite industry-dependent. https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/startup-exit/ That said, most of these companies IPOed at much lower valuations than Doordash.
Comment linking /blog/startup-exit/
on “DoorDash from Application to IPO”Submitted Crunchbase to categorize companies by race / ethnicity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHmm interesting. I checked up two other sources[0,1] and those ones have US / UK / Israel / Canada / Australia etc above Norway when it comes to Startup environment. So I still don't see enough evidence for the original point (healthcare and cheap housing being essential). A lot of those countries (esp. UK / AU / Canada) apparently have a housing situation far worse than the US. And yet, they are thriving compared t…
Comment linking /blog/trends-global-startup-ecosystem-2022/
on “UBI Would Likely Increase Poverty Rather Than Reduce It (2019)”Submitted Pitch Deck Slide Examples: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIMHO, stay put. At your compensation, it's going to be nearly impossible to join a startup and have the opportunity cost make sense. Do what you're doing for as long as you reasonably want to, or until the comp drops off. Hopefully you're saving, and then you can either be a founder or an investor/advisor once you want to get involved with a startup and have it be better worth your time. >- If I accept a position wi…
Comment linking /blog/how-many-rounds-of-funding-do-companies-raise-before-exiting/
on “Ask HN: Should an experienced engineer join a startup?”Submitted Here’s the Math Behind Teespring’s Painful Recapitalization as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI agree, I think crunchbase pro is what you are looking for. https://about.crunchbase.com/market-research/
Comment linking /market-research/
on “Ask HN: Datasets of Startup Valuations and Exits?”Submitted Open Source Software Is Big Business with Big Funding as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Berlin is a major European tech hub Yes, between Tel Aviv and Shanghai [1]. Though on a VC metric, it’s a minor player [2]. [1] https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/top-startup-ecosystems-in-... [2] https://startupsusa.org/global-startup-cities/
Comment linking /blog/top-startup-ecosystems-in-2020-ranking-1000-cities-and-100-countries/
on “Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus”Submitted Google Tests Invite-Only Applicant Tracking Tool “Google Hire” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 101 Startup CEO Salaries at IPO as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hidden Benefits of Launching Your Tech Startup in Latin America as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ICOs Keep Climbing Mt. Vaporware as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How likely is your startup to get acquired at any stage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantifying Startup Funding Inequality for Fun and Profit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Extend Your Runway by Optimizing SaaS Spend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crunchbase and Angular: Why We Made the Transition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Only 3% of Business Investment Goes to Women, and That’s a Problem for Everyone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crunchbase and for Startups, Inc. Partner to Expand Data on Japan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup CEO Salaries at IPO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Founder: You’re Not the Best Person to Run Your Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Excitement in Asia Grows, but It’s Not Enough to Beat US Funding Totals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Details about Teespring's down round as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Ethereum Became the Platform of Choice for ICO’d Digital Assets as a story · 2 points
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