| ▲ | Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails(apparent.social) |
| 23 points by west_subject 8 hours ago | 27 comments |
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| ▲ | Ecco 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| For some reason all the datapoints seems to be shifted a few miles south-west. |
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| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | mushufasa 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Marc Andreessen: "The warm intro is the first test." |
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| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | spiralcoaster 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You 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. |
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| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | syndacks 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC! | | |
| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | victorbjorklund 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Link does not work |
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| ▲ | AndrewKemendo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Were previously open to cold emails |
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| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | pkoird 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Does the post explain how the data was obtained? Or is it simply some kind of scraped list to get attention? |
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| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | i collected and curated it over the months. Also, what attention? this is free for all. always will be. |
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| ▲ | sixhobbits 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And here's a similar list of 3400 VCs who suddenly find themselves a lot less open to cold email https://apparent.social/heat-map |
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| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | i dont think so tbh. they willingly made their emails open to the public. they have a sourcing problem for all we know |
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| ▲ | high_byte 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| would be nice to be able to simply get the list instead of having an ominous heatmap |
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| ▲ | baddash 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| all the chicago ones are swimming out in lake michigan |
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| ▲ | irishcoffee 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | All the Annapolis ones must be on their yachts in the bay | | | |
| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | LMAO yes, so are the bay area ones. I used mapcn ,which is a free tool to make those pins. it kinda got mangled up in the process. |
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| ▲ | comrade1234 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I will fund this! |
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| ▲ | philippz 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| great, this helps no one |
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| ▲ | west_subject 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | well, this helps people who're having trouble finding out public facing email addresses of investors at various VC firms. thought i'd make it easier for founders to reach out to GPs and angels who'd wanna talk. |
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