Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by artif4ct » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms
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Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by xzel » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:12 PM UTC

Hey OP or whoever owns the site. Both the logo and the home button on the blog go to the blog homepage. Would be nice if one of them went to the actual homepage. Also, there appears to be a small UI bug on your pricing page for the Hobby section. The red box isn't centered around the text, its off to the left a bit.

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by wslh » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

I would put the list in a structured way (e.g. Google Spreadsheet) instead of another paginated web page. In this format we should also scrape your page again.

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by dotBen » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

(VC here) the source used is is a really out of date list and also missing basic information you would need to properly build a VC targeting list (stage and sector being vital information missing).

This is an interesting enough demo of web scraping but I wouldn't advise using this to actually build a hit list for your fundraising.

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by tild3 » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

https://signal.nfx.com

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by dang » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

This is not a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by artif4ct » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 1:19 PM UTC

dotBen wrote: post #4

(VC here) the source used is is a really out of date list and also missing basic information you would need to properly build a VC targeting list (stage and sector being vital information missing). This is an interesting enough demo of web scraping but I wouldn't advise using this to actually build a hit list for your fundraising.

Thanks, we'll make sure to update our demo!

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by artif4ct » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 1:20 PM UTC

xzel wrote: post #2

Hey OP or whoever owns the site. Both the logo and the home button on the blog go to the blog homepage. Would be nice if one of them went to the actual homepage. Also, there appears to be a small UI bug on your pricing page for the Hobby section. The red box isn't centered around the text, its off to the left a bit.

Thanks for reporting we'll make sure to fix that asap!

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by artif4ct » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 1:21 PM UTC

wslh wrote: post #3

I would put the list in a structured way (e.g. Google Spreadsheet) instead of another paginated web page. In this format we should also scrape your page again.

The data is available to be exported as xlsx, CSV, Json, XML or Rss

Re: Show HN: I got a list of 2000 Venture Capitalist Firms

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Post by artif4ct » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 1:23 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #6

This is not a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html .

Thank you for pointing this out! I'll make sure to respect this in future submissions!