John Cook wrote an interesting article on TechFlash last week about the lack of media buzz associated with Seattle startups and I have included a excerpt below. Generating buzz, both in the media and in general, can sometimes be expensive and daunting.
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Seattle startups lack media buzz in YouNoodle ranking
By John Cook on February 19, 2009 at 12:32 PST
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YouNoodle made a splash last summer when it announced an online service that attempted to determine the valuations of startup companies. Now, the San Francisco company is attempting to measure the media buzz around those companies.
Today, it introduced YouNoodle Scores — described as “a quantitative measurement, on a scale of 0 to 100, of a startups impact and importance based on its traction, activity, and buzz.” I took the new service — which includes 27,000 startups — for a test drive this morning to guage the buzz factor for the top 10 companies from the Seattle 2.0 list. What did I find?
Click the link below to read the full story on TechFlash…
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