Data Marketplace
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Data Marketplace was an Austin-based startup incubated by Y Combinator in 2010, founded by Steve DeWald and Matt Hodan. It served as a middleman helping financial organizations find quality data on the web: users submitted data requests, which the site routed to its network of 200,000 data aggregators, programmers and consultants specializing in financial data, who then posted data resources with metadata and prices that buyers could search and purchase.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and YC
Data Marketplace was founded in Austin and went through Y Combinator, positioning itself as a data middleman for financial organizations.
- Acquired by Infochimps
On December 14, 2010, competitor Infochimps announced it had acquired Data Marketplace in an all-cash deal of undisclosed terms. Founders Steve DeWald and Matt Hodan did not join Infochimps, though Data Marketplace was to continue operating as a standalone destination.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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