How the Startup Ranking Works Generally, our ‘Scoring Bot’ is...

How the Startup Ranking Works

Generally, our ‘Scoring Bot’ is looking for companies which have been active on social media, generated online traffic, won awards and featured in the press. It crunches a variety of different types of data, from a diverse range of sources, and by applying carefully selected weightings and a little bit of magic, spits out a score for every company featured on Techboard. We expect healthy turnover at top of our leaderboard, as we are focussing on events of the previous fortnight rather than cumulative or historical achievements.
As an indication of the types of inputs being looked at:

• Press coverage;
• Awards;
• Search engine ranking and time spent on website;
• Social media followers, activity and engagement (Twitter, Facebook, Techboard);
• Votes received from members of our Panel of Experts (each expert can nominate 1 to 3 companies per period).

http://www.techboard.com.au/how-the-startup-ranking-works/