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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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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Reviewing the BLS’ data on employment for white collar work, I aggregated the data to these categories. It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows. AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 Sales Managers 0.4

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

And so are most startup CEOs for that matter. Just ask the founder of JetBlue (Azul Brazilian Airlines), Dave Neeleman. When my pal Dave started his venture fund, 500 Startups, he was ridiculed. How can anybody do 500 startups?”. Neither did his stint at Mint.com as Dave has himself acknowledged. I think I am, too.

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

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Graph-based data models have become central to modern machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, and are now widely used by data analysts in applications as diverse as marketing to fraud detection. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage.

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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

Hilary has had both a major impact on my personally--by helping to push the envelope on the kind of data analysis work we were doing at Path 101. When we hired her, we leveled up in terms of our technology and Big Data chops. That's how you win out in the venture and startup world. How did this startup come to be?

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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

And while the Australian agency was recommended to TechCrunch via our our survey to identify software development partners for startups , it could just have well have come through our survey to recommend growth marketers, which you can answer here. “Every startup has to start with an idea. ” Can you explain?

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