VB Profiles
https://www.vbprofiles.com/
VB Profiles is a partnership between Spoke Intelligence and VentureBeat.
It is the new source for timely, relevant and comprehensive information
on industries, industry trends, companies and people— designed from the
ground up to meet the needs of business managers, sales, and research
professionals. Launching with an initial database of over 20,000
entities across multiple industries, VB Profiles helps drive businesses
forward with its robust crowd-sourced data gathering model, paired with
automatically-updated enterprise-specific news. Business professionals
turn to VB Profiles in search of the latest company information,
including executive profiles, company milestones, industry trends, news,
blog posts, and much more. VB Profiles also allows business
professionals to create user-friendly profiles of companies and people
in a smooth and organized process that replaces existing inefficient
data gathering techniques. Profiles are shared with the community at
large, including peers, partners and industry experts – all able to
interact and collaborate to create relevant insights about people,
companies, industries and trends. Spoke Intelligence provides a 360
degree view of an industry, industry trends, a company and its people
from all the information available on the internet — no more spending
hours Googling for all the different information you need on a company.
Ultimately such a view across thousands of businesses enables
professionals to derive insights and drive business around an industry, a
trend, a company and people. Most importantly, Spoke Intelligence is
community-based. They believe that information on the Internet shouldn’t
be simply limited to what people publish about themselves. They
envisioned a collaborative space where communities can respectfully
interact around companies and people outside the control of those
companies and people. Spoke Intelligence will become the premier network
for this kind of vibrant community. They are curating information by
giving the community at large the power to update profiles and provide
insights. They have created a moderation platform to provide enough
oversight to ensure that community-provided content is appropriate.
Their focus is business information, so this will not be the venue for
airing customer support issues or maligning someone’s reputation. They
are doing this in partnership with companies and individuals. In
compliance with their privacy policy, individuals are able to opt-out of
their profile at any time. And, is doesn’t stop there. They are
regularly aggregating additional third-party information. Over time
their profiles will continue to evolve with a current mix of
community-supplied and third-party relevant public information.
Everything is free – they just ask that you take a minute to contribute
when you find interesting information about a company or a business
professional. By doing so, they will be able to offer a free resource,
while also ensuring we have the most up-to-date information. By
aggregating, curating and organizing the most reliable and up-to-date
business data and information, we are creating new insights around
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