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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. you’re writing SQL queries, manipulating the data sets in excel and creating graphs to make sense of them, defining what metrics to look at in your weekly.

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boldstart 2021 recap & what’s ?? in enterprise 2022

BeyondVC

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. 2021 Recap. Sending and from the boldstart team at the end of a challenging 2021. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R. invest time into your customers.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Internship Title: Software Development Intern Compensation: UnPaid Description: appVuze is looking for a Software Development Intern who is pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar discipline. Our ideal candidate is hands on, passionate, persistent, creative, and a DOer.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs.

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Machine Learning for Paid Ads: Best Practices in a New Era

ConversionXL

They’re probably telling themselves that this is by design—that it’s part of a “portfolio management” strategy in which you accept lower performance from a (large) number of campaigns but balance that with higher returns from other areas. Across industries, the conversion rate from MQL to SQL is between 0.9%

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Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips

Occam's Razor

This means we can join the two tables with simple sql and understand which online shoppers ended up making a purchase offline (and what keyword they used to arrive on your site): Boom! Bonus Tip : I tend to think in terms of a portfolio model. The two tables above have something in common, a primary key (Geek ID).

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