Last week LinkedIn launched their company directory which has been in beta for the past few months. They also introduced the ability to search by company based on industry, location and company size. I wrote about the new directory back in March but I didn’t have the chance to browse through the directory. My first search was to find all of the companies based in the “Internet” industry in D.C. The result? 118 companies. I then proceeded to do the same thing for San Francisco and came up with 505 companies! Not extremely shocking but still informative. Here are the number of internet companies in other popular “creative class” cities:
- Atlanta, Georgia – 48
- Austin, Texas – 41
- Boston, Mass – 132
- Chicago, Illinois – 76
- Denver, Colorado – 57
- France (Country) – 196
- London, U.K. – 125
- Los Angeles, California – 246
- Miami, Florida – 33
- New York, New York – 306
- Phoenix, Arizona – 21
- San Francisco, CA – 505
- Seattle, Washington – 84
- Washington, D.C. – 118
How accurate is this calculation? Not very accurate because in the United States, the total number of companies claiming the “Internet” industry only amount to 2,323 which is far less than I would imagine actually exist. Then again, LinkedIn was extremely accurate with the companies based in Washington, D.C. so there is a good chance that this is a pretty good indicator.
The directory couldn’t find my own company though (Social Times Inc.) which has been classified as an “Internet” company. There were also other companies missing but so far this is the most accurate directory I have found for “Internet” companies based in the Washington, D.C. area. Take a look around the LinkedIn company directory and let us know if you find any problems with it. Do you think this is a useful tool?
