A Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm is looking to mine data on fast growing startups.

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Mission: Startup Finder
Tests: GitHub, PHP, WordPress Plugins, API and problem solving skills
Difficulty: 4/5
Time Est.: 4 hours
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Briefing:
A Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm is looking to mine data on fast growing startups for the sole purpose of cold calling their founders.  Through those introductions, they seek to invest in rapidly expanding startups that need help managing growth.  With hundreds of startups in Silicon Valley alone, finding the fastest growing ones first will prove the most fruitful.

The firm is most interested in startups within a 10 mile radius of zip code 94301, founded at least one year ago and having no more than 500 employees.  The firm currently is considering both the LinkedIn API and CrunchBase API for collecting the most accurate employee data.  It is up to you to research and decide which API will best accomplish their goals.

Objective:
Deliver a WordPress plugin that can collect the following data:

    Company name
    Employee head count
    Year founded


Assuming an even growth rate per year, the plugin should output a data table of companies with the most employees per years in business.

The plugin should be considered a "proof of concept" to demonstrate the ability to collect and process the information above in accordance with the firm's goals.  Design is not important at this stage, but the firm is counting on you to use best practices to make it easy for a future PHP developer to further enhance the plugin at a later date.

Requirements:

    Create a blank, public GitHub repo when you receive the mission and add an UpTrending developer as a collaborator
    Create a feature branch for this mission and add these requirements as your first commit
    Send a pull request to the UpTrending developer when your work is complete