Startup Matrix is open sourced on GitHub
Almost two weeks ago Eric Stromberg wrote an article about startup idea matrix. The goal of this matrix is to visualize the successful startups regarding the market they operate in and what kind of tactics they use to differentiate from other businesses and startups.
The original matrix was created as a Google Sheet in read-only mode. So people started to suggest in comments that it would be nice to open source it and let others send updates or corrections.
UPD: Startup Matrix’s got its own site where each startup has a link and description: http://startup-matrix.com
CSV, JSON, Markdown
That’s why I decided to spend a weekend to create such a project on GitHub. Before this, I enriched each startup in a matrix with a brand name (text) and a link to the site. It took several hours to google for that information. Then I exported everything to a CSV file, and to other formats like JSON, Markdown, and even HTML.
Here is the GitHub repo:
GitHub has an amazing support for CSV and Markdown formats. Right on the site you can view these files as a table. In Markdown they support hyperlinks, so you can follow them and check out the main sites of startups.
If you are not a developer and don’t know what GitHub is, just check out the following URL — it has CSV files that you can open with any Excel-like software:
https://github.com/startup-matrix/startup-matrix/tree/master/csv
And here is a sample code of a few startups as JSON objects:
Other startup matrices
BTW, there are other implementations of startup matrices. One was published on BuzzFeed on August 25, 2015. They use similar markets on the rows, but column names are slightly different: successful startups like Uber, Tinder, and Airbnb are used as columns.
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