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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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3 Low-Cost Marketing Strategies that Gave Us an Obscene Return on Investment

Entrepreneurs' Organization

With marketing budgets tightening and businesses hurting, it made me want to share some of the most effective marketing strategies that have worked for us, either costing little to no cash or providing an absurd return on investment (ROI). Utilize Unique Data The media love unique data, especially if it tells a good story.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

In data analysis you want to look for “primary&# research, which means the person who initially gathered the data. But all of the data projections were so different so I decided to call some of the research companies and ask how they derived their data. Nobody was surprised. I wish it ended there.

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

TechCrunch

In addition, DTCP and Lightrock newly invested and previous investors One Peak, Creandum and Greenbridge Partners joined the round. And this round, I think, sends a clear signal [that] we’re going for it,” he said. Erik Nordlander and Tom Hulme of GV were the leads for that firm.

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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. The Fund just announced their investment commitment of $13.5 as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC.

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Investing in Equals

Andreessen Horowitz

For the first time, this brought data analysis and computing together, in a way thousands of times more powerful than pen and paper. While VisiCalc is no longer around, the … The post Investing in Equals appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. VisiCalc, the first computer-based spreadsheet, was launched in 1979.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

Hell, I can barely manage 10 investments – how could anybody do 500? He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. When my pal Dave started his venture fund, 500 Startups, he was ridiculed. How can anybody do 500 startups?”. I have to admit I felt the same way.

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