Mixpanel has a mission to help the world learn from its data.  The company went through YC Summer 09 and now analyzes over 6 billion actions every month for companies like Airbnb, Quora, and Jawbone.  Mixpanel recently launched a new suite of Revenue , which they describe on the Mixpanel company blog.  These new tools […]

37 YC Funded Companies Valued Over $40m is a post I wrote about a month ago.  Six of the 37 companies valued over $40 million dollars were exits.  I omitted any guess as to the remaining 31 companies.  Since writing that, I’ve noted exits of seven additional companies.  I’ve also done some quick research as to […]

Consider the companies selling big data products: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, EMC.  Generally speaking, big data refers to extremely large volumes of unstructured data.  Such data is also called “dark data“, because it results in missed opportunities when not put to immediate use.  Problem is not enough talented people are working on big data.  And that means the market […]