👋 Hi, I’m Andre and welcome to my weekly newsletter, Data-driven VC. Every Tuesday, I publish “Insights” to digest the most relevant startup research & reports, and every Thursday, I publish “Essays” that cover hands-on insights about data-driven innovation & AI in VC. Follow along to understand how startup investing becomes more data-driven, why it matters, and what it means for you.
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I started this newsletter in September 2022 with a clear thesis in mind: VC is fundamentally broken and technology can help us fix it.
Initially, I shared a variety of learnings from my PhD research as well as my own journey at Earlybird including an overview of different manual and data-driven sourcing approaches, the “make versus buy question”, the most valuable commercial database providers, a step-by-step guide to scrape alternative data sources, the different approaches for de-duplication and entity matching, the importance of feature engineering for proper success scoring… and a lot more.
While diving deeper into this magic rabbit hole at the intersection of VC, data & AI, I occasionally shared some technically rather high-level but still related experiments such as my 10x productivity guide with ChatGPT or a process overview for augmented VCs that attracted surprisingly much attention.
20 months later, I took a step back and tried to understand why these IMO high-level posts resonated so incredibly well whereas some other IMO super valuable deep dives performed comparably bad.
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