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Christian Catalini.
Genre, Solene
Sloan School of Management.
Sloan School of Management
2014-09-19T21:48:14Z
2014-09-19T21:48:14Z
2014
2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90244
890378945
Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 62).
It is very hard to identify and evaluate very early stage investment opportunities in disruptive digital consumer-facing startups as they usually don't have any meaningful revenue data yet. However, these growing startups have "momentums". In classical mechanics, momentum is the product between mass and velocity. When it comes to startups, we can see revenue and web traffic as the mass and unique page views, social presence and sentiment, page rank, inbound links... as velocity (cf. Danielle Morrill start ups momentum index). Analyzing all these data is usually the most relevant way for investors to evaluate investment opportunities. It is however very unclear to what extent startups momentum is an indicator of financial performance. I would like to focus on social media exposure as an indicator of velocity for startups, and investigate further the correlations between social media exposure and revenue data.
by Solene Genre.
S.M. in Management Studies
70 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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