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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

Despite its decades-old roots, SQL is undergoing a renaissance, buoyed by SQL tool advancements in a variety of data-related tools. What Is SQL? SQL is a standardized programming language specifically designed for managing and interacting with relational databases, where information is stored in interrelated tables.

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Google BigQuery: A Tutorial for Marketers

ConversionXL

Alternatives include Amazon Redshift , Snowflake , Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse , Apache Hive , etc. The solution is to give every lead and every purchase a userID (like an encrypted email), to pull CRM and Google Analytics data into your BigQuery data warehouse, and then—with a simple SQL query—join the two tables.

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Takeaways from our first V1 Data Team Hangout

Version One Ventures

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio ) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

So the process in B2B looks a bit like this (simplified): Visitor → MQL → SQL → customer. There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates. Anyway, this is a sales and operations decision based your product and market. Account-Based Marketing. Outside the scope of this article.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. This information is normally maintained by your operations team.

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

The other half have a mix of data sources, which inevitably include an offshore SQL database (or ten) managed by an external vendor whom no one can track down. And while these projects operate beyond the scope of marketing and business, they suggest the potential for predictive analytics as it evolves. The results?

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