Category: data
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Data itself has no intrinsic value. Let me say that again for budding data entrepreneurs. Data itself has no intrinsic value. After my first appearance on the My First Million pod with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri, a bunch of folks reached out saying they had a dataset on X or Y (or an idea…
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It’s perhaps weird to say a book about sports and data changed my life. It’s even stranger when that book is about baseball — a sport I have near zero interest in watching but which I admire deeply for its relentless desire and ability to use data and technology to innovate and look for an…
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So you wanna build a data business? One of the things I didn’t understand when starting. CB Insighs was the many ways you can collect and create the information that underpins a data business. As we’ve built CBI and as I’ve studied others, I’ve realized there are 7 primary strategies employed for data collection &…
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Some data from a recent anti-trust trial Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster transcripts were researched and broken down by Elle Griffin. Here’s what jumped out: 50% of books sold less than a dozen copies 50% of books couldn’t sell 12 copies Publishers like VCs are looking for unicorns The real value-add of…
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