They don't have 100M users. Just 100M names from scraping Quora, Linkedin etc.
They probably have less than 1000 users I'm guessing.
They probably have less than 1000 users I'm guessing.
That's more than just a little shady.
For what it's worth, I've been on the beta for a few months now, and have known Eamon for years. They're very good people, and I'm really stoked to see this out in the wild.
I've had co-founders in the past, and it's very different doing it yourself. Before the team was properly formed, I asked some friends for help. Some of it was product related, some of it was business and fundraising related. And some was just moral support.
I don't think there's a hard and fast rule to the ratio of advisors to team. Every startup is different, every product is different and every team is different.
As to our value prop and brand strategy, I admit, there's a lot that's not obvious from what's essentially a holding page. -- we're still pre launch, and in private beta, which I mentioned in opening paragraphs of the post.
Regarding .is, as I said above, there's a specific reason that was chosen, more to do with the product than with marketing.
If you'd like to see for yourself what we're up to, I'd be happy to give you a demo. Drop me a mail on eamo@eamo.net and I can set something up.
Cohort.is is our marketing website. We chose the .is TLD for a specific reason.
What we have is a social graph that a lot of R&D has gone into, using public data - which was outlined in the post.
As I'm sure you know, a social graph is more than just a list of names pulled from Quora and LinkedIn (neither of which are sources for us, btw).
"As of today, Cohort is a social graph of over 100M people, and over 700M relationships. We are understanding 10,000 people and their networks a day."
That says "people" and not "users"