601: Venture Capital for Data Science

This week, Sarah Catanzaro, General Partner at Amplify Partners joins Jon for an episode that dives into the venture capital side of data science. Learn how to fund your data science business idea, take note of what start-ups can do to survive or raise capital in the current economic climate, and discover how to break into the field of venture capital yourself.

In this episode you will learn:

• Angel vs. venture capital vs. private equity investment [7:27]

• How early-stage investment is made prior to a firm having product-market fit [14:33]

• How to pick winners in early-stage investments [28:08]

• Tricks to accelerating from a data science idea to obtaining funding [36:21]

• Observational causal inference [44:01]

• How to get involved in venture capital [47:37]

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