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Vancouver Start-up Index - December (beta)

Posted by Greg Andrews on December 7th, 2007 · Filed under Start-up, Start-up Index, Vancouver

Few will admit it, but most web entrepreneurs can’t last for more than a day without checking their web traffic stats. Inspired by the Seattle Start-up Index, we’ve compiled a Vancouver Start-up Index. Like the Seattle Index, the ranking is calculated as an average of Alexa and Compete rankings, two leading web traffic data sites. I’ll be the first to admit that neither Alexa or Compete’s numbers are perfect, however I think it will be interesting to see trends over time as we update monthly. We don’t recommend that you make financial decisions based on this list, but wagers for beer may be appropriate.

Consider this list a “beta” version, as we know it’s far from complete. It was compiled quickly from companies listed on Techcouver and companies we’ve blogged about recently. We’re asking you to suggest eligible companies in this post’s comments. We’ll incorporate your submissions, do some more research of our own, and an updated list will be published on December 15. New lists will be published on the 15th of each month hereafter.

The criteria for companies to appear on the list:

  • Located within Metro Vancouver (GVRD)
  • Less than five years old
  • Not a public company
  • Is a tech company (either hardware, software, web application/service, or mobile)

To clarify the last point, we won’t be including development/design shops, consultancies, or blogs. In the future, we would be interested in compiling separate lists for these categories and lists for other cities.

Please leave your suggestions for other companies in the comments of this post, and let’s all watch our traffic go up together.

Rank Site Alexa Compete Average
1 Plentyoffish
 780 746 763
2 NowPublic 12,593 10,553 11,573
3 clubZone 13,811 9,576 11,694
4 everystockphoto 45,815 108,686 77,251
5 DabbleDB 65,812 96,502 81,157
6 CounterPath 47,384 207,612 127,498
7 Bryght 122,846 194,145 158,496
8 Project Opus
 225,677 149,561 187,619
9 HerFabLife 144,566 314,649 229,608
10 Qumana 182,692 525,561 354,127
11 GiveMeaning 347,700 411,049 379,375
12 Jiibe 457,185 397,372 427,279
13 Ubertor 412,938 571,524 492,231
14 Sxip 548,852 521,978 535,415
15 NetHooks 566,348 898,048 732,198
16 Lypp 520,504 - 520,504
17 MyRealPlace 631,517 - 631,517
18 QuickMobile 832,293 - 832,293
19 Kinzin 850,046 - 850,046
20 MovieSet 956,547 - 956,547
21 Vacant Ready 1,114,854 - 1,114,854
22 Strutta 1,179,179 - 1,179,179
23 StrangeLoop Networks 1,267,889 - 1,267,889
24 SomethingSimpler 1,419,080 - 1,419,080
25 Taglocity 1,594,772 - 1,594,772
26 Sitemasher 1,821,097 - 1,821,097
27 AdHack 2,064,524 - 2,064,524
28 MailChannels 2,637,427 - 2,637,427
29 LiveVote 2,871,638 - 2,871,638
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22 comments

  • BW said on Dec 7, 2007 at 1:55 pm:

    Great idea - would love to see this for other cities!

  • kk+ said on Dec 7, 2007 at 2:20 pm:

    great list… would love to see raincity studios added! :) kk+

  • Brian LeRoux said on Dec 7, 2007 at 5:15 pm:

    Nitobi! Alexa: 113,734

  • John Boxall said on Dec 7, 2007 at 5:53 pm:

    Woot, #29!

  • Steve Jagger said on Dec 7, 2007 at 8:51 pm:

    nice, lucky number 13

  • danny said on Dec 7, 2007 at 11:58 pm:

    Love this!! How about suite101? Have they been around too long?

    And not that Strutta needs any more competiton, but how about these:

    Eqo
    YotoPhoto
    MyThankYou
    Audiobaba

    Rob, I’ve got more I’ll send you later

  • Simon said on Dec 8, 2007 at 6:29 pm:

    ScribbleWiki - 219,045 - 482,072 - 350,558

  • Michael said on Dec 10, 2007 at 12:30 pm:

    http://www.fitbrains.com

  • Chris said on Dec 10, 2007 at 3:07 pm:

    Too funny. After over a year in business I’m down to checking my stats every 2.1 days.

  • Brad said on Dec 10, 2007 at 4:24 pm:

    http://www.vintagepixels.com

  • 2008 Canadian Financing Forum said on Dec 10, 2007 at 4:41 pm:

    [...] Stay tuned for a complete list of the presenting companies - I suspect a few of them will be on the new Vancouver Start-up Index.  [...]

  • Gerald Bauer said on Dec 10, 2007 at 4:51 pm:

    Great idea. To promote Techcouver I’ve started a complementary Vancouver Facebook Index called “Best West Index” @ Kinzin’s Are You Normal? Facebook App leads with 586,475 installs; 23,459 active users/day and a $292,609 Adonomics valuation estimate in $$$. Enjoy. More @ http://vanajax.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/beta

  • Justin said on Dec 10, 2007 at 11:25 pm:

    http://www.thefanyard.com

  • David said on Dec 11, 2007 at 12:18 am:

    errrr… Greg….

    There is a pretty big omission here??

    TECHVIBES?

    ;)

  • Steven Stark said on Dec 11, 2007 at 11:53 am:

    There’s a lot…
    xMediaJobs.com
    Smart-Love.ca
    tazzu.ca (or is richmond too far?)

    and there’s soo many more not listed.

  • Toronto Start-up Index - December (beta) said on Dec 11, 2007 at 2:22 pm:

    [...] by the Seattle Start-up Index, and complementing our Vancouver Start-up Index, we have compiled a Toronto Start-up Index. The index is based on the average of Alexa and Compete [...]

  • Jordan said on Dec 11, 2007 at 3:41 pm:

    Don’t worry about it Danny, we’ll be shooting up the list in no time :)

  • Mark Kaufmann said on Dec 11, 2007 at 10:33 pm:

    Add the newest version of TheLinguist’s language learning system to your list at http://www.lingq.com. Our old site at http://www.thelinguist.com is still up but no longer contains a learning system. LingQ has been up since August and on it we now teach multiple languages.

    We’re based in West Van.

  • Healthy J said on Dec 12, 2007 at 2:34 pm:

    http://www.Healthpricer.com should be on there!

  • Damian L said on Dec 14, 2007 at 8:55 am:

    I’d love to have http://www.moneyster.ca on there. We’re giving money away, what’s better than that!? =)

  • nick bouton said on Jan 3, 2008 at 1:33 am:

    Hey Rob, make sure to add http://www.protagonize.com to the January index. Thanks! :)

  • Vancouver Start-up Index - December 2007 said on Jan 4, 2008 at 5:28 pm:

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