new way to analyze entrepreneur's influence
What if you could crunch data to find the most
undervalued players in the startup world? Toronto-based Cdling Capital Services
Inc. thinks it can.
A Toronto company is using Moneyball-like
metrics to rank the most valuable – and undervalued – players in the startup
world.
Cdling(pronounced
‘seedling’) Capital Services Inc. has developed ananalytics platform that
measures the reputational influence of peoplewithin the startup ecosystem,
including investors, company founders andexperts. By analyzing data about them
— such as their socialconnections and links to financing deals – the program
ranks theseplayers by how much clout and impact they have in the startup realm.
“We apply social network and financial analysis around
players todetermine their rank across the (startup) ecosystem,” said
founderMichael Cayley.
In the Oscar-nominated movie Moneyball,Jonah
Hill’s character tries to build the Oakland A’s into a WorldSeries-winning
baseball team by using relational statistics to acquiremajor league players who
achieve the best performance at the lowestsalary, ignoring scouts who focus
mainly on batting averages, RBIs andother standalone numbers. View The Full Story
