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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 Public & private company diligence, compliance analysis Marketing & PR 0.9 Powerpoint creation, data analysis Lawyers 0.8 Sales Managers 0.4

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Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital: Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.

Hunter Walk

Or some data analysis competency. The other super power should be in service of the founders you back. Pick something that is matched against the stage and markets you partner is investing in and just become the go-to person for the founders. Or running data analysis projects. Good luck!

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With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand

TechCrunch

If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. The founders of Zing Data recognized this fundamental problem with data access, and they went to work building a mobile application that would let users get into the data themselves.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

Just ask the founder of JetBlue (Azul Brazilian Airlines), Dave Neeleman. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. My guess is that many VCs are. And so are most startup CEOs for that matter. Sounds obvious.

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The industrial data revolution: What founders got wrong

TechCrunch

Joe Hellerstein is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Trifacta and the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. In February 2010, The Economist published a report called “ Data, data everywhere.” Little did we know then just how simple the data landscape actually was. Joe Hellerstein. Contributor.

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. “Every startup has to start with an idea. For the latter, we established the Appetiser University.

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ODAIA raises $13.8M for its AI-powered commercial insights platform for pharma companies

TechCrunch

The platform combines data analysis, process mining and AI to offer predictive analytics to pharmaceutical and life sciences commercial teams. In terms of the future, Poulidis said the startup’s goal is to provide a one-stop shop for multivariate data analysis and predictive insights of life sciences data in a single platform.