Who you know and are good friends with might be there, too. So your picture, job title, contact information and other data may already exist on Conspire. Conspire members can edit your profile as well. If you are in the contact list of a Conspire member, a profile of you has been built using public sources. For example, someone reading this article right now might have a Conspire profile without being a Conspire member. It builds those networks without the specific consent of everyone involved. For Conspire to work, it relies on networks. It actually doesn't matter if you want to find the person because you want funding, a job, or you want to go on a date. Basically, it is a people and relationship finder. But as the network grew, it has gone beyond the original capabilities. Conspire started as a way for startups to find venture capital and potential customers. The more members it has, the better it works. Ultimately, Conspire is really only as good as the size of the network. But which ones would really do you a favor? Who would vouch for you and connect you to people you know? Who could pick up the call and get your resume on the top of a stack? Of the two people you know who have met the hiring manager for the job you want, one met him once at a conference and one is in her fantasy football league. In other words, you might be connected to hundreds if not thousands of people professionally. If we see you send this person 100 emails and they never respond we know there is no relationship there." Because we understand the strength of relationship. "If you try to do this on LinkedIn, they might show you 50 people who are two degrees away," said Devkar, "Of the 50 people LinkedIn names, you might not really know them very well.
Conspire measures how closely you are tied to people based on data like how often you communicate and how likely it is for you to respond to their email (or vice versa).