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bmahmood

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    Cofounder of 13 Fund, and author of this investment thesis. As entrepreneurs who exited our startups last year, we wanted to give back to the communities that fostered us. So we se…

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    Amplitude (YC W12) | Product Engineer | https://amplitude.com/ Amplitude is a product intelligence platform, helping companies use self-serve analytics to make better product decis…

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    Likely unpopular opinion here, but it seems a little unfair to fault YC founders for believing "that the way to win was to hack the test", when the YC application itself would seem…

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    Aww thank you! Our design team is pretty cool. :)

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    Yep, you're correct that we're using observational studies via a regression to remove confounders and estimate treatment effects. Our confounders are synthetically generated based …

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    Thanks for reaching out again! We're prioritizing support for Segment at this time, but hope to add other integrations next year. Our analytics product is completely free, so getti…

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    Thanks for the great feedback! Yes, some of these limitations expressed in the study are true in the case of ClearBrain - namely we are leveraging observational studies at this tim…

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    Hi Sean - great point! When I was at Optimizely working on their data science team, we found that on average a test needed 10K-20K unique visitors to reach significance. We find th…

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    Hi I’m Bilal, cofounder at https://www.clearbrain.com . ClearBrain is a new analytics platform that helps you rank which product behaviors cause vs correlate to conversion. Think G…

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    Apologies! Looks like the site was mid-update when you noted the 404s. It's back live now :)

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    Thanks for the interest! (Cofounder of Clearbrain here). The patent covers a combination of statistical techniques and engineering systems we built. The tricky part of this is the …