Friday 27 September 2013

Micropreneur versus venture funding who wins you decide

Just for a bit of fun, I thought I would see if me as a bootstrapping micropreneur could compete against a the latest intake of venture funded businesses from seedcamp.com incubator http://www.seedcamp.com/2013/09/new-teams.html

The only thing I could think to compare between websites, was to look at the Alexa.com rank as this is the only easily available public data I could find. The lower the alexa rank the better, for example Google.com has a rank of number 1, facebook.com number 2 (i.e. the second most popular website), a smaller site might have an alexa rank of 1,000,000 etc.

My site www.steelbeamcalculator.co.uk website has an alexa rank of 469,656

Latest seedcamp intake alexa ranks as follows;

151,657 gopixel.me
269,825 sharelatex
1,140,521 teddytheguardian
1,243,082 stamplay.com
1,884,882 hypeapp.co
2,177,166 spreddit.co.uk
2,361,264 legal-tender.com
2,546,856 ctrlio.com
2,696,182 saberr.com
3,209,132 revisionapp.co.uk
9,869,951 winnow solution

Only gopixel and sharelatex have a higher alexa rank than steel beam calculator so far, I will review this data every 3 months to see who wins, I expect 1 or 2 of the seedcamp to do better than me and the rest will probably fail. The site I launched yesterday www.beamcalculation.co.uk has an alexa rank of 9,764,199, so it will be interesting to see how that one performs.

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