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by ig1 6y ago
Most law enforcement typically use a handful of commercial agencies (like Parabon NanoLabs, etc) for these kind of searches, it seems highly unlikely that any of them would risk using illegally obtained data because it would put their entir
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by ig1 6y ago
In terms of medical data the amount of leakage is somewhat limited by the nature of DNA, e.g because you get a random mix you can't conclude anything about parents, etc medical status. By far the biggest practical knock-on effect is if
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by ig1 6y ago
Would recommend the book The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals, it's more an intro to how finance works rather than quant dev but will give you a sense of what it involves at a high-level.
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by ig1 6y ago
Fundamentally it's hard to see how the current situation is any different from the situation in which anti-trust regulators moved against Nintendo and Sega in the mid-90s. In both cases you have a duopoly which essentially controlled t
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by ig1 6y ago
As someone who previously competed on Kaggle, this seems a reasonable decision. In previous contests it was pretty clear if you wanted to do something that used third party data you should get pre-clearance for it from Kaggle/contest o
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Successful Open Source Business Models(medium.com)
4 points by ig1 6y ago|0 comments
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by ig1 7y ago
Blossom Capital | London | Software Engineer in Venture Capital We back Europe's top startups at Series A (including YC almumi Duffel, Fat Llama and Sqreen) and building technology is a core part of how we operate, from sourcing deals
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by ig1 7y ago
Blossom Capital | London | Software Engineer in Venture Capital We back Europe's top startups at Series A (including YC almumi Duffel, Fat Llama and Sqreen) and building technology is a core part of how we operate, from sourcing deals
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by ig1 7y ago
If you're looking for medical testing you're better off getting specific tests for what you're looking for. As you have no guarantees that you won't get errors or no-reads on the SNP you care about and you won't get
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by ig1 7y ago
All of the major companies essentially use Illumina hardware, you can find private labs that will extract your raw data, but what do you plan to do with it? Without the data sets of Ancestry, 23andme, etc. the raw data isn't very usefu
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by ig1 7y ago
Virtually all sales and marketing teams use this technology (including the author's company where they use Hubspot).
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Redefining the European Series A(medium.com)
1 points by ig1 7y ago|0 comments
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by ig1 7y ago
Venture Hacker | Blossom Capital | London, UK If you're a developer who wants to get into venture capital, this is the gig for you. At Blossom we're building a new kind of Series A VC for Europe. We’ve got a team with deep experie
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by ig1 7y ago
As a lender the big risk with small businesses is fraud. Online lenders have automated much of the underwriting process so the main cost is actually CAC rather then staff overhead. Loans are generally designed to be recoverable (requiring p
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by ig1 7y ago
Venture Hacker | Blossom Capital | London, UK We're building a new top-tier Series A VC for Europe. I'm hiring for a unique profile: a developer who wants to move into venture capital, but wants to still do software development on
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by ig1 7y ago
Don’t do this. Your card not working (generally speaking) doesn’t automatically end a contract. You could end up with the subscription not ending but just accruing as a debt, which the vendor could then sell on to a debt collector at a late
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by ig1 8y ago
Venture Hacker | Blossom Capital | London, UK If you’re a developer who wants to get into venture capital, this is the gig for you. At Blossom we're building a new kind of venture capital fund for Europe. We’ve got a team with deep exp
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by ig1 8y ago
No VC of any meaningful size is interested in a $50m exit. Let's say as a VC you invested $3m and are holding 20% of the company at exit, that means you'll make $10m. A 3x return is nice but not going to be fund-maker. If you&#x27
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by ig1 8y ago
Yandex search already does this
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by ig1 8y ago
I realized the above might not have been clear: you can potentially negotiate the length of vesting period, but not the existence of vesting period.
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by ig1 8y ago
Generally from what I've seen in the market founders will typically either come around to accepting the terms or will raise money from non-VC source (corporates, PE funds, etc).
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by ig1 8y ago
If it's essentially a growth round labelled as an A you can normally negotiate the vesting schedule, but if you're at a standard Series A point, then it's unlikely you'll be able to change it unless you're a super h
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by ig1 8y ago
As a Series A investor who invests in startups outside of the Valley, it's hugely useful to have something like this (independent of us) that we can point to as to what's normal, especially for founders who don't necessarily
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by ig1 8y ago
I think Stratchery made a mistake in think this is about open vs closed source, but rather it's down to Amazon's desire to own core infrastructure. Amazon wants to have an offering in every major database category. Whether you&#x
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by ig1 8y ago
The real problem is that we don't have a more effective capital model. While there's lots of experiments in funding going on, no-one's really figured out a risk model that works in good times let alone bad. Fundamentally new
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by ig1 8y ago
The new Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act has bought minority investments into the scope of CFIUS reviews.
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by ig1 8y ago
It's touched upon in the article, but in reality they're probably not third cousins. 23andme gives relationship estimates for people based on percentage of dna shared, these estimates are based general population data. However the
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by ig1 8y ago
If insurance companies wanted genetic testing data they wouldn't bother trying to do a messy data join with a third-party database, they'd just make it a requirement to provide a swab/saliva sample for testing when you signed
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by ig1 8y ago
https://www.raisin.com/
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A Modern Business Intelligence Stack for Startups(medium.com)
3 points by ig1 8y ago|0 comments

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