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Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range... by meta2023 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:48AM (#33970408)
The user in question sells alt data. If they’re remotely competent at doing so, they have zero need to work at a startup much less a YC-funded one.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range... by eloff on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:00AM (#33970624)
What's alt data? I've never heard that term before.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range... by meta2023 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:38AM (#33971259)
Some tangible examples are: credit card transaction data, individual geolocation or foot-traffic data from mobile phone sdks or carriers themselves, receipts scraped/exfiltrated from email inboxes, individual browsing history, or highly targeted web scraped data.

All "anonymized" of course.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range... by sampo on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:05AM (#33970690)
"What Is Alternative Data and Why Is It Changing Finance?"

https://builtin.com/fintech/alternative-data

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Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range... by yamtaddle on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:24AM (#33970995)
TL;DR: Info gleaned from just about any source other than company statements and market data, used to guide investment choices. This includes stuff like satellite imagery, which has been used for a long time for these sorts of purposes, but also e.g. social media trends. I guess the news is that there's more of it happening now, because the practice itself isn't new.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range... by eloff on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:35PM (#33979706)
Fascinating.
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