You’ve scaled your business to the point where you have product-market fit. Your leadership team has good intuition about the market, product, and opportunities in front of you. Yet the opportunities are too vast. You’re not able to assimilate and make sense of all the data required to understand tradeoffs, measure ROI, or make decisions that feel well informed.
Perhaps it’s time to hire your first data scientist.
Read MoreIn the world of big-data, data transfer is a much ignored topic. So much of the big data ecosystem assumes that your data is just "there" while in reality, your data is actually coming from somewhere.
Read MoreSimon is building big data, predictive, and real-time systems. Are you a software engineer aspiring to dig deeper in data? A data engineer looking to expand horizons into data science or full stack software? Or are you just a general badass with proficiency across web programming, data programming, and deep data analysis?
Read MoreEtsy IPO'd today and the company is an incredible story of empowering over a million small business men and women to sell unique and one of a kind goods online.
In aggregate, these entrepreneurs sold over $1.93 billion in goods last year, as revealed by Etsy's S1 filing. And while it took Etsy 10 years to get there, its growth is nevertheless astonishing. When Etsy acquired my startup Adtuitive in late 2009, the marketplace sold about $180 million in total goods that year. When I left after three awesome years there, the marketplace was doing an annual run rate of over $1 billion.
Read MoreYou've spec'd out, wire-framed, and maybe even implemented a simple version of your website or mobile app. Maybe you even have a launch plan in place. You know that data and KPIs are a thing, but you don't know where to start?
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