Does the post explain how the data was obtained? Or is it simply some kind of scraped list to get attention?
i collected and curated it over the months. Also, what attention? this is free for all. always will be.
Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails
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#22Were previously open to cold emails
well, this solves their biggest problem of sourcing newer startups. which is the whole reason they made their emails public. they're def open to newer ideas and startups that they could fund.
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#23You have some kind of bias in the dataset or the visualization. It's showing places in "Boston" to be south east of the city in a completely different location.
it's the mapcn package i'm using. after i plotted 300 points, the spacing got fucked up. just the spacing tho. everything else works.
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#24Link does not work
https://apparent.social/heat-map
sorry if you had some trouble opening it up.
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#25For some reason all the datapoints seems to be shifted a few miles south-west.
i think the mapcn package i'm using. i think it's best if change it, honestly.
it got mangled up, when i started plotting a certain number of pins.
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#28Marc Andreessen: "The warm intro is the first test."
well, you might find someone on this list, who might be connected to a GP at a16z. cant discount that idea.
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#29You have some kind of bias in the dataset or the visualization. It's showing places in "Boston" to be south east of the city in a completely different location.
Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!
please dont kill me, it's the package i'm using. i'll use a better one when i get the time.
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#30Does the post explain how the data was obtained? Or is it simply some kind of scraped list to get attention?
i collected and curated it over the months. Also, what attention? this is free for all. always will be.
i'm sorry, I meant attention of the project (as in surfacing it). It'd be worth specifying your methodology somewhere in the page. That is arguably an important piece of important.