Ranking the Top 10 Cloud Startups
March 21, 2013
Grazed from CIO. Author: Jeff Vance.
More than 10,500 people cast votes for their favorite cloud startups. But before we get on to our final rankings, a bit of background on the voting process: Unfortunately, a couple of frisky engineers decided to try to hijack the vote with a few automated bot ballot-box stuffers, so some votes had to be purged. When the startups who most likely scripted the bots were contacted, the management teams appeared genuinely shocked.
The CEOs involved tracked down the script writers quickly, reprimanded them and threw their startups at the mercy of the court.
We kept them on the list, because iIn the grand scheme of things, trying to hijack online voting isn’t a capital offense. It’s a misdemeanor, but enough of one to get you dropped down the list significantly…
Also, the final rankings are based only partly on the online voting. Here’s the procedure we used to determine the final ranking:
- Every startup was ordered based on vote tallies (legitimate vote tallies, that is).
- Each startup was then scrutinized for an area of weakness, such as a lack of named customers or a green management team.
- If there was a weakness, we looked at the competitors who finished close to them in the rankings to see if any should jump ahead…
Read more from the source @ http://www.cio.com/article/730460/Ranking_the_Top_10_Cloud_Startups_