Top 5 Ecommerce Platforms in 2016 - INC.com
Signal trajectory
realSignal 6.1 → 9.6 across 26 readings (+3.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.
Cross-sectional profile
percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled productsPercentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.
Mortality outlook
model estimateThis is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.
- LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
- Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
- Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
- Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
- Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model
n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.
Analyst read
generated from the metrics above · no external narrativeTop 5 Ecommerce Platforms in 2016 - INC.com sits in the 1th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #3,135 of 5,171 in Ecommerce. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 55% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +58.9).
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Signal | P(dead) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magentoproductivity | curated | 15.7 | 9% |
| Shopifyecommerce | curated | 25.7 | 2% |
| The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experienceseducation | tag-overlap | 15.7 | 48% |
| Hello Tech Pros: Business Acumen — The 9 Critical Attributes in Performance Reviews: Part 3productivity | tag-overlap | 15.7 | 92% |
| Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovationeducation | tag-overlap | 22.9 | 21% |
| Boss Level - Jabe Bloom and design thinking for organizationsproductivity | tag-overlap | 15.7 | 92% |
| Feb 27th in LA! How to Plan for Product Growth and Success by NBC Universal PMproductivity | tag-overlap | 22.9 | 49% |
| Virtual Reality, Hiring, and 20+ Years of Startup Experienceother | tag-overlap | 15.7 | 91% |
Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.
Structure
observed attributesFunding & team
not in sourceNo disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.