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by dataisfun 14y ago
I get your point. But I'd argue that a shortage in technical talent doesn't logically imply great engineers are more abundant than great sales/business people. It's just that there are probably just more mediocre business people than there
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Jason, this post sort of illustrates the unfortunate arrogance some technical founders seem to possess. I've read so many of these holier-than-thou stories about how business founders need to supplicate before the technical guy. It's unhelp
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by dataisfun 14y ago
This was extremely well written. A very nice change from typical meta-startup fare. Nicely done!
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Congrats Sam. I think this is an important and super cool venture.
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Interesting. What are the points in your opinion and how are they unrelated? I'd like to see something more substantive than pure trolling.
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Not an issue at all. I grew up in Tel Aviv and Israelis love Americans, esp. those doing tech related work.
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The New State of Digital Marketing(spinnakr.com)
28 points by dataisfun 14y ago|6 comments
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Looks cool.
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by dataisfun 14y ago
andover grad here :) Nicely written!
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by dataisfun 14y ago
I love udacity!
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Modria is the leader in this space.
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Second that. I loved the latest batch. Rescale, Priceonomics, Socialcam, etc. etc. etc.
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by dataisfun 14y ago
no. not a bubble.
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by dataisfun 14y ago
agreeing with what others have said. Blank has basically redefined the study of entrepreneurship (in addition to starting and exiting quite a number of companies).
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by dataisfun 14y ago
This discussions (which seem to happens as frequently as sunsets) are so petty and generally worthless. Lots of great businesses are driven by sales as well as code. One is either building or selling a product. And great talent in each dep
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by dataisfun 14y ago
This is all I have to say (full version): I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computer
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by dataisfun 14y ago
This is all I have to say: http://www.rinkworks.com/said/predictions.shtml
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Heard of pinterest? Ben and Paul were not engineers. Ben's the product guy you so disparage.
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by dataisfun 14y ago
Udacity is fantastic. It's the best online CS education I've ever seen.
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Spinnakr Takes #1 Place at Data 2.0 Competition(spinnakr.com)
5 points by dataisfun 15y ago|0 comments
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by dataisfun 15y ago
This is fantastic. Glad you guys came along. I was wondering why it took so freaking long for something like this to show up.
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Boston: Cradle of Liberty and Data Startups(xconomy.com)
5 points by dataisfun 15y ago|0 comments
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by dataisfun 15y ago
So we actually connect via a reversed SSH tunnel. So our customers maintain the corporate firewalls and tunnel out to us. Since, unlike a lot of other business intelligence companies, we don't take a full copy of your data, we ensure securi
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by dataisfun 15y ago
they already are :)
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by dataisfun 15y ago
Yea, that's a good point. I wanted to keep it light.
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LinkedIn Data Scientist Talks Shop(chart.io)
37 points by dataisfun 15y ago|4 comments
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by dataisfun 15y ago
Hey, just to throw ourselves in the ring: We're Chart.io, a Y Combinator company. Our product is "Google Analytics for databases" and we've basically stripped out a lot of the complexity of BI (and a lot of the cost :) We're in private beta
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by dataisfun 16y ago
for sure. hit us up! We love HN!
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by dataisfun 16y ago
Hey, email me at dbeyer@chart.io and I'll hook you up :) Cheers, David
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by dataisfun 16y ago
Yep. email me at dbeyer@chart.io and I'll bump you ahead of the beta list :)

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