You'd think by now we'd have enough startup & press data to correlate first-week reaction with 5-year success.

@elliotloh Ok I'm in, love the concept for a blog post. Modify to 3 years ago so that there will be lots of tweets. Pick 10 and I'll write.

@JimEngland seems like CrunchBase would be a good place to start. Does their API allow searching for launches within a certain timeframe?

@elliotloh This search gives companies formed in 2008 that got TC coverage: http://keep.la/dEkXIH Should we constrain to funded startups?

@JimEngland I ticked off "Techmeme" as well & it returned half the results (23 pages). But 2 sources seem to map better to hype...

@elliotloh Sounds good. Added funding filter, angel between $250k - $1 mil and got 11: http://keep.la/hZunNX Remove Groupon and roll w it?

@JimEngland sounds like a good start. Not all hyped-up companies are funded but this experiment should turn up some interesting patterns.

@elliotloh Cool, this should be a fun experiment. Thank you for the inspiration.