Business Insider Sucks. I think they hire teenagers from a local high school newspaper to pump this shit out in 60 seconds.

Nothing happened. This data is incomplete, "expectation that the dip won't look quite so severe when additional information comes in." And if you look at the other charts, everything is just fine. All this means is that more small deals were done in Q1, rather than big deals. Just stick to comparing A, B, C rounds, not overall value of pre-money rounds.

Yeah I like how the author summed up the analysts statement as "a big fat, dunno" when in reality she said "the data is incomplete".

Just for the record, I remember ZeroCater's demo day and it seemed like they were already off and running without needing to raise more money. At least that was the feeling I got when listening in the crowd.

Anyone can pop up their alexa ranks in the short term, but long term you still need retention, which equals traction. Typically higher the rank, the better you're doing.

I basically agree with this, putting an order on this list might have irked some people, but a list of companies to follow in no particular order might have worked better.

I like most of your lists and creativity, but this one isn't very helpful and it feels like you're reaching. After a site cracks the Alexa top 10,000, it becomes a lot harder to move up and should be worth a lot more on rankings.

I don't think your first report was bugged, but just by using the TC data and showing the flaws should hopefully get people to keep it updated.

HN will send more traffic than your mentions in magazines.

I think that sounds like a fair price based on other acquisitions taking place. You can see how many DAU they had on FB, they were thriving.

Well they are in stealth... so commenting on them on hacker news or in public forums would go against the whole stealth mode concept PG put in place.

Fair enough. My bad.