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🚀 Excited to unveil my submission for the September 2023 DataDNA - Dataset Challenge! As part of this thrilling challenge, I had the privilege to dive deep into the Shark Tank (US) dataset and unearthed some invaluable insights: 🌟 Mark Cuban stands out as the top investor, having poured a whopping $59 million into various ventures, followed closely by Lori Greiner with $43 million. Barbara Corcoran, on the other hand, made the least investment among all investors at $18 million. 📺 Viewership for the show experienced fluctuations over its run, reaching its peak in the first quarter of 2015. The average U.S. viewership at the program's inception was 4.62 million, gradually concluding at 3.39 million. 💼 Out of the total participants, a remarkable 62% of entrepreneurs managed to secure a deal, while 38% unfortunately fell short. 💰 AirCar emerged as the startup with the highest investment of $5 million, closely followed by MokiDoorstep, SynDaverLabs, and Zipz, each receiving $3 million in investments. 💼 Among all entrepreneurs, Ethan Tucker and Pat Booner clinched the highest total deal amount, a remarkable $5 million. 🔍 I've also provided filters for Season Number, Episode Number, GotDeal status, Pitchers' City, Industry of Startup, Pitchers' Gender, and the Number of Sharks in the deal to enable a deeper exploration of patterns and trends. A big shoutout to Packt, Onyx Data, Pomerol Partners, Astrato Analytics, TimeXtender, novyPro, ZoomCharts, The AI Journal and DATAcated for organizing this amazing challenge. 🔗Dashboard Link : https://lnkd.in/gcDXQ6hE #DataDNA #powerbi #tableau #astrato #qlik #DataAnalysis #DatasetChallenge #SharkTankInsights

Hey, Fam! After building in stealth, I’m beta launching Spark: a platform to help First Gens and People of Color break into the startup industry. Startups are the greatest opportunity in history to build intergenerational resiliency. There’s just no replacement for the skills and networks you build at a startup. And if you choose wisely (Spark helps with that), your equity could be the catalyst for intergenerational wealth. As alumni of highly successful startups and professionals of color, my partner and I saw the massive potential in bringing this solution to our communities. 📣 Let me say it for those in the back: Cold applications and cover letters don't work. 📣 Despite graduating from the No.1 Public University in the World and being a Management Consultant for Fortune 500 clients, I was ghosted across 200+ applications. Coming from an immigrant household, I took these rejections as personal moral failings and entered into a deep depression. During this slump, my parents—serial entrepreneurs—gave me the initial spark of inspiration: If I can’t find the solution, I need to build it. Enter Spark. I went from being a serial ghost to: — Holding 1:1s with venture-backed CEOs on a weekly basis — Building 100+ meaningful connections in industries I’m passionate about — Receiving offers from unicorn startups that were double my salary If you’re a first-generation student or young professional of color looking to grow your career in the startup world, we’d love to hear from you. Sign up for the Spark beta by September 20th via the link below: https://lnkd.in/eKPiy5UG Abrazo, Adri y ‘Stina 🚀 Christina Luk

Are you an entrepreneur or startup looking to use data as a strategic asset? Check out our popular Data Product Framework for Startups from the Tesseract Academy! This framework helps you understand how data can be used to create valuable intellectual property and monetization strategies. DM us for a copy of the four-page framework! #startup #data #strategy

👻 CSMs: How many times have you been "ghosted" by a client this year? ❓ Have you tried sending a video to your executive point of contact? 💡 Research shoes that 59% of senior executives report they’d rather watch a video than read text. Furthermore, CSMs can expect a 8x higher open-to-reply ratio with video messages. 🎇 That's why Gemma Cipriani-Espineira, other CS Angels, and I have invested in Sendspark! We believe in the mission that Bethany Stachenfeld & ✨ Brandon Escalante are driving to bring personalized AI videos at scale to the market. Read more about the investment below and visit Sendspark.com to try it for free. https://lnkd.in/gMU5bvv6

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With a bit of help from Anthropic's Claude 3 I'm building a verified anonymized knowledge base using all the seed to series A founder Q&As on LearningLoop.com. I started LL because I felt frustrated by the fact that most learning content was inaccurate or badly produced and made my life harder. As I dug deeper I noticed the most consequential knowledge isn't documented at all, because the more competent you become the less interested/available you are to write, and you prefer just talking, and I thought the best way to solve that would be to build learning communities where people constantly talked about what they're good at and what they're learning, and an algorithm that'd turn their convos into categorized knowledge bases that future members could easily interact with. I cared to build our own communities instead of building some extension to existing communities because to control and continuously evaluate the quality of the knowledge base, I've needed control over the quality of conversations, and therefore the competence of members. If I was building something that'd answer all your questions (solving for quantity), it'd be better to train it on as much data as possible and partner with as many communities as possible. Since I'm building something that tells users what questions to ask at each stage to grow exponentially (solving for quality), less becomes more. That sort of product doesn't need all the data in the world, but the lived experience of a critical mass of verified members in a specific domain. Just enough to generalize. I've heard YC does this very well in Bookface and they have curated materials and content and benchmarks that only YC partners can add/edit, and they're always up to date. I took a bet on building an authentic, highly curated and engaged community in order to build an AI startup that adds exponential value to the members over time and I think this is a bet that'll be more common over the coming years. I'm glad I raised VC money for this early on. Because: 1. community building takes time 2. while you're building a business like this, from the outside you look like a community and nobody funds communities. there's never been an exit. 3. Though a community becomes exponentially valuable when it feeds a model, and particularly so when it enables the creation of 100x+ more such communities (and therefore 100x+ more niche verified knowledge bases) #learninginpublic

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ScaleUp Tech Academy is inviting you to a 90mins FREE webinar on 20th January 2024 by 6pm WAT. We would be answering any questions in regards to our next cohort, and also be discussing what are your benefits in graduating from our business intelligence, Data analysis and Reporting Program. Please feel free to request in our DM for the Zoom link if you wish to attend #business #dataanalysis #reporting #excel #inteligenciaartificial #scaleup #businessanalytics #zoommeeting #entrepreneurship #edtech

Startup founders, be wary of giving up board seats to VCs just because you have more than 50% of equity. Board seats math and equity percentages math are not the same thing. Protect your board seats as much as you protect against dilution. A cautionary tale for all founders. More info on OpenAI dumping their CEO because the board has the votes: https://lnkd.in/e8FthiEq #startupfounders #boardseats #VCs #equitymath #cautionarytale