Romain Debordeaux

Romain Debordeaux

Romain is Gust's Product Analyst.

Articles by Romain Debordeaux

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – December 2012

December update and insights about new startups:

India became second last month as the country with the highest count of new Startups, right below the United States. India’s average position for the year has been fourth, it came up to third in February and between June to August, but only reached second for the first time this past month.

Top 5 Us states remained steady this month and were consistent with their yearly averages.

New startups creation stages remained steady and in line with the rest of the year, with 13.1% in Concept Stage, 43.2% in Development Stage, 34.5% in Product Ready Stage and 9.2% in Revenue Stage. The trend noticed last month of Product Ready companies declining appears to have dissipated as all stages regained their balance.

Industry wise, interesting things are happening, the percentage of total Internet Web Service companies (the biggest industry for new startups) appears to be on the decline, with a market share loss of 1.8% in December when compared with November (from 15% to 12.2% respectively).

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – November 2012

For November 2012 we are noticing an interesting trend of product ready companies declining, while concept stage companies are rising. This trend is mostly led by a decrease in product ready internet web service companies in the US, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom, and with an increase in concept stage companies in Spain, India, Brazil and the United States.

The top four US states with the highest concentration of new startups are still California, New York, Florida and Texas. However, during the last three months the fifth and sixth places have been a battleground between Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Washington. For November, Pennsylvania takes fifth place and Georgia claims sixth.

Although the concentration of startups by country remains fairly steady throughout the last three months, we have several notable changes to our top 25 countries. Portugal and Chile both came up four spots, rising to 13th and 14th on the list. Kenya had one of the largest increases, and jumped 13 spots to 22nd for the month of November.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

September’s Startup Map showcases the latest trends in startup profiles created on Gust between September 1st and September 30th. Some of the entrepreneurs chose to keep their startup profiles private and therefore are labeled as unpublished in this month’s map, and were not included in the trends analysis.

In September the US has once again shown the highest concentration of startups, even though there was a decline when compared to the month of August. Canada also saw a decline, falling from second to fourth place. Meanwhile, France prevailed with a double-digit percent increase, jumping up one spot and into third place. The newcomer to the top five countries in September was the UK, which more than doubled its prior amount of monthly startups. Other countries with a surge in new companies are Colombia, Australia, and Spain.

Within the US, California significantly led the startup scene, while New York, Florida, and Texas followed closely behind in subsequent order and remained in the same top places as August. Georgia and Pennsylvania bumped Illinois out of the top five, and were tied for fifth place. However, the states with the highest monthly increase in percentage terms were South Dakota, Kentucky, and Hawaii, also likely due to their small baselines, but yet demonstrating a potentially interesting trend.

The top industries stayed relatively unchanged from the previous month, with Internet/Web Services and Consumer Products and Services leading worldwide. Interestingly, two new industries made it into the top ten, Education and Clean Tech, both with double-digit increase rates. The US is the leading country for the Education industry, with every 1 out of 2 startups in Education coming from the US.

Not surprisingly, many new startups across the world are in the development stage. This means almost 1 out of every 5 startups have a product in development, whereas less than 10% are product ready, and even less are in revenue stage, which make up only 3%.

Check back soon to read October’s edition of the map and trends analysis.