cpierson

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Tech’s push to “disrupt” workers is a legal and social timebomb(gigaom.com)
9 points by cpierson 12y ago|0 comments
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Reflecting on PRISM: The Institutional Failures that Led to Surveillance Culture(balkin.blogspot.com)
3 points by cpierson 13y ago|0 comments
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Why you’re not spending enough to acquire customers(pandodaily.com)
2 points by cpierson 13y ago|0 comments
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CISPA and Surveillance Culture: Who Has the First Amendment Right Against Whom?(balkin.blogspot.com)
5 points by cpierson 14y ago|0 comments
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Customer Segmentation in Retail: free online class, from basic to Bayesian(blog.custora.com)
15 points by cpierson 14y ago|0 comments
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Custora: Help our retail customers grow, be our customer advocate
1 points by cpierson 14y ago
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Custora (YC W11) Updates Ecommerce Analytics to Drill Down on Customer Retention(betakit.com)
19 points by cpierson 14y ago|0 comments
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Be careful how you average – a retail example(blog.custora.com)
45 points by cpierson 14y ago|6 comments
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Review of the Amendments to CISPA(balkin.blogspot.com)
2 points by cpierson 14y ago|0 comments
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A review of the latest Internet surveillance act: CISPA(balkin.blogspot.com)
6 points by cpierson 14y ago|2 comments
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How Bayesian CLV predictions helped a firm optimize Google Adwords spend(blog.custora.com)
6 points by cpierson 14y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing "good retention" and "bad retention" in retail(blog.custora.com)
8 points by cpierson 15y ago|0 comments
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Fab after nine months (slideshare)(betashop.com)
29 points by cpierson 15y ago|18 comments
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by cpierson 15y ago
Corey from Custora here. Happy to answer any questions about how our product works and how we helped Fab discover these insights.
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Fab & Custora calculate the the lifetime value of an iPad (customer)(betashop.com)
39 points by cpierson 15y ago|16 comments
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by cpierson 15y ago
Corey from Custora here ( http://www.custora.com ) - if you're interested, we provide online retailers with an interface to manage lifecycle/drip messaging. We integrate with Mailgun, as well - and are very psyched for the new API features!
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How Bayesian Probability Models Can Make CLV Predictions 12x More Accurate(blog.custora.com)
82 points by cpierson 15y ago|14 comments
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by cpierson 15y ago
Hey, Corey from Custora here. We're huge fans of cohort analysis in general - it provides all kinds of insights into how customer behavior is changing. It's a powerful way of viewing historical data. However, we need to be careful when usin
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by cpierson 15y ago
We're going to explore some of those approaches in upcoming posts!
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by cpierson 15y ago
We're working with a couple SaaS companies right now to get a feel for how to best apply our platform in that setting. If you're interested in chatting about your SaaS product, email us at info at custora - happy to chat!
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by cpierson 15y ago
Thanks for the kind words! CLV is a big part of our platform - we run a lot of analysis on the individual customer level. We use probability modeling to calculate accurate CLV numbers, and we do a lot individual-level analysis to detect wh
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by cpierson 15y ago
In the example you cite, I agree - if someone just aggregate links generally, and had no intention of pushing people towards verified child porn, there was no intention there. Those link shouldn't be penalized. On the other hand, if someon
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by cpierson 15y ago
This is actually making a very strong argument to protect hyperlinks and the right to use them - but to do so under the lens that hyperlinks are free speech. Much like newspapers have the right to say whatever they want. Of course, there a
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by cpierson 15y ago
I'm curious as to why extreme examples are "weak" in the context of evaluating a framework to evaluate hyperlinks. Whatever policy the courts put in place, they have to handle both extreme and non-extreme situations. Following your line of
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The right to hyperlink - in response to the Canadian decision(balkin.blogspot.com)
13 points by cpierson 15y ago|9 comments
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by cpierson 16y ago
Thanks! We're working hard to build the product based on the latest research in the field.
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by cpierson 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words!
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by cpierson 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback - it's helpful to hear reactions about what's most important to add next the site. We're learning that there are large aspects of the customer retention challenge that are consistent across many types of businesses (
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by cpierson 16y ago
Great idea :)
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by cpierson 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words - and for the suggestion for more info on the team. The co-founders are computer science guys, and we also studied probability modeling over at Wharton. Excited to bring these tools to market!

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