Game Of Angels

A force-directed graph showing key VCs interactions

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A force-directed graph showing key VCs interactions

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@cam_pj - this is super interesting. Who people follow and interact with on Twitter within the tech scene (and others) can be very revealing (cc @daniellemorrill) . I bet you can predict future funding announcements or at least have a pretty good guess which founders and VC's are talking. Several of the investors that funded us in the seed and series A followed and engaged with months before our revealed their involvement.

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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@daniellemorrill @rrhoover Oh... it is amazing! When I started this experimentation, I had no idea the level of interactions would be "that much". I was also doing this to look at how other geos and especially Europe (I am based in England) play in this... Unfortunately it is not looking really good so far. It could be that Angel List has a bit of a natural bias towards the US, but still. Some way to go for us here :-).

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11yr ago

@cam_pj just wondering if you are expanding the data set and offering filters to be able to filter "bloggers" or "fashionsisters" etc... I know Majestic did some work on understanding the influence of Twitter https://blog.majestic.com/resear...

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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@davidiwanow Definitely something I'd like to do. I'd need to get my hands on a list of these people though. I am not sure where to find it at the moment (the @angellist API was very helpful for this). Do you by chance know?

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11yr ago

@cam_pj hmmm Majestic Topical Trust Flow data might give you some of this insight at scale by category, otherwise i'd say you would have to build a manual data set using something like Sysomos. Maybe a simpler option would be to use Klout's API based on User's Topics https://klout.com/s/developers/v2 but you would still need a list of users to check and not everyone has an accurate Klout profile

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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@davidiwanow Thanks a lot David. I will look into these. I did not know you could do all that with the Klout API.

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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I just added journalists and influencers (well, some of them!). E.g. http://gameofangels.com/gaberivera cc @gaberivera @rrhoover @davidiwanow There is no "definite" (and API-able) list as far as I know. So I used various sources, for instance http://www.businessinsider.com/1... but please do let me know if I missed someone (I probably did...).

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11yr ago

Love. This. Reminds of a project from the good old days focused on board members and their influence http://www.theyrule.net/

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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@turoczy It's very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

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11yr ago

Absolutely brilliant. I am sure a few other streams would hack this idea for their specific domains/interests! :)

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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@vingar Thanks Vinish. I think you are right. I would also like to add a few more "layers" to this one. E.g. tech journalists for instance. Could be interesting.

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11yr ago

Rocket Journal

This is cool @cam_pj Gives great insights for hustlers looking to break into a certain VC mini- community.

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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@abhineetsays Thank you for your kind words. I don't know if you have seen, I recently added the ability to see "what are articles each group of people share the most". I think it's a great way to get a live, curated (by the most influential people) list of the most important articles. For instance: http://gameofangels.com/leaderboard

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11yr ago

Rocket Journal

@cam_pj this is super helpful. Thanks man! Will let you know if I'm hooked for over a week.

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11yr ago

aiden.ai

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One more thing: it supports direct links to someone's influence map. Just add the Twitter handle to the URL. For instance: http://gameofangels.com/hunterwalk cc @hunterwalk

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11yr ago

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