{"id":2750,"date":"2016-01-29T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2016-01-29T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:58:41","slug":"startup-index-quest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/2016\/01\/29\/startup-index-quest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Startup Index Quest | 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-fr\">D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<\/p><p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/10\/14\/bay-watched\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this long article in the New Yorker<\/a>\u00a0about San Francisco, I found it impossible to avoid the conclusion that the way people work and live over there could just be the perfect exemplification of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Innovation Intelligence<\/em>\u00a0is what happens in a place where founders build what they really need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason I discovered that article in the first place is that I was researching Naval Ravikant.<\/p>\n<p>Within the startup world, Naval Ravikant is a hero. He qualifies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/live\/naval-ravikant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People look to him for advice and learning.<\/a>\u00a0He has founded several startups, but here I&rsquo;ll just focus on one.<\/p>\n<p>Naval Ravikant has turned the utopian essence of the San Francisco innovation ecosystem into a business. And the basis of this business is a startup index: <a href=\"https:\/\/angel.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AngelList<\/a>, which launched in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>A business implies people buying a product or a service. Monetization is a strong signal of startup index quality. Three important ways to monetize a startup index are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building a journalism platform.<\/li>\n<li>Building a recruitment platform.<\/li>\n<li>Building an investment platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first path is the one followed by TechCrunch \/ CrunchBase, on which we touched in our <a href=\"http:\/\/Monetization is a strong signal of startup index quality.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous post<\/a>. It&rsquo;s not what AngelList does. Naval does maintain a <a href=\"http:\/\/startupboy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">very interesting blog<\/a> however.<\/p>\n<p>When AngelList was launched, it positioned itself as a recruitment platform. Here is a particularly relevant quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3027305\/naval-ravikants-angellist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article in Fast Company<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRavikant describes AngelList as a way to connect parties who want to do business. \u201cI think it\u2019s a problem that LinkedIn wanted to solve but never got around to.\u201d LinkedIn built the largest database of business people online but couldn\u2019t actually get the to do business transactions with each other through LinkedIn.\u201d he thinks AngelList is more like eBay or even dating site Match.com. \u201cBut we\u2019re doing it for things that have value in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who spends a few minutes on AngelList will realize it is an amazing, high signal \/ low noise tool to identify startup talent and\u00a0opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>AngelList became an investment platform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3027305\/naval-ravikants-angellist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">following the changes in the US regulations<\/a> applying to crowdfunding in 2012. It is <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2014\/11\/13\/angellist-ceo-naval-ravikant-disruptor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disrupting<\/a> the VC model that had reigned unchanged\u00a0in the Silicon Valley during the past five decades. At first this service was free. Then the possibility <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3027305\/naval-ravikants-angellist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to pool investors in \u00ab\u00a0syndicates\u00a0\u00bb changed the game<\/a>, and opened up a new line of revenue for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>My takeaway from this quick inspection of AngelList:<\/p>\n<p><em>Innovation Intelligence<\/em>\u00a0is what happens in a place where founders build what they really need.<\/p>\n<p>Naval Ravikant is a hero. But he himself doesn\u2019t worship heroes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/live\/naval-ravikant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab\u00a0I choose to learn mostly from books \u2014 those are my \u201cauthority figures\u201d\u2014 but even there I try to be very selective.\u201d<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.After reading this long article in the New Yorker\u00a0about San Francisco, I found it impossible to avoid the conclusion that the way people work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93,376,793,794,966,1031,1161,1412,1413,1478,1522,1558,1560,1611,1707,1713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}