b5media: #5 on TechVibes’ Start-Up Canada Index

b5media and Start-Up Canada logos

b5media, where I hold the position of Nerd Wrangler, has the #5 position on TechVibes’ Start-Up Index Canada for July 2008.

Here are the top ten entries in the Index:

Rank	Site	Alexa	Compete	Average	City/Region
1	MetroLyrics	492	381	437	Vancouver
2	Suite101	2,350	491	1,421	Vancouver
3	AbeBooks	6,274	2,428	4,351	Victoria
4	Wikitravel	4,596	4,925	4,761	Montreal
5	b5media	7,071	4,080	5,576	Toronto
6	NowPublic	7,954	6,396	7,175	Vancouver
7	TravelPod	7,997	7,384	7,691	Ottawa
8	Weblo	11,647	10,809	11,228	Montreal
9	amung.us	5,914	20,427	13,171	Alberta
10	iBegin	28,861	13,086	20,974	Toronto

Greg Andrews has been compiling Start-Up Index lists at the tech news site TechVibes for the past half year for nine cities and regions in Canada, including Accordion City. They rank companies not on profit or market share, but on much easier to collect data: web traffic to their sites, based on data from Alexa and Compete. It’s not the best measure of the performance of a company, but it might be a decent indicator of mindshare. The Start-Up Index Canada for July 2008 is his first such index compiled for Canada as a whole.

To qualify for inclusion on the list, a company has to meet the following criteria:

Located in Canada
Less than 5 years old
Not a public company
Is a tech company; either hardware, software, web app/service, or mobile

Congrats to my fellow coworkers and b5 bloggers!

Bonus Useless Data

If you were to treat The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century as a startup, its average score, based on its Alexa ranking of 54,924 and Compete ranking of 48770, would put it in 21st place on the Start-Up Canada Index.