Update – 500 Startups head honcho Dave McClure left some helpful insights on the Hacker News comment thread related to this post.
As with the other index, there are caveats. Web traffic only tells part of the story for any company, and this index doesn’t contain complete information about Facebook app usage or mobile app usage. What’s most useful is seeing how these rankings change over time, so I will be updating this monthly.
I wish my start up was in this list. What are the criteria you are going with? Why is skimlinks part of the list?
I am including all companies publicly known to have taken funding from 500 Startups, and Skimlinks is one of them.
some relevant comments on HN here:
http://bit.ly/ZO62Da
also there are some other posts I’ve made about 500 on quora that may also be relevant:
http://quora.com/500-Startups
lastly I’ve written a few posts on my blog which discuss 500 investment strategy:
http://500hats.com
Nothing like a bit of competition to spice things up. A bit of a gap between us and 9gag… woking in it.