Hacker News: jsherry

New comment by jsherry in "Run and create custom ChatGPT-like bots with OpenChat"

jsherry — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:07:30 +0000

This may be a naive question. But is there a way to embed a chat bot like this that only queries the data we feed it, and not the universe of other stuff in gpt? Like I don’t want people using the chatbot in our product to query a good strawberry shortcake recipe. We just want them to query about data we allow it to query which is native to our business.

Is this feasible? Thx.

Deliberate Culture vs. Passive Culture

jsherry — Fri, 06 May 2022 13:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathansherry.medium.com/deliberate-culture-vs-passive-culture-37eaece6a9f1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284799

Points: 1

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Analyst firms are full of shit

jsherry — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:04:44 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathansherry.medium.com/analyst-firms-are-full-of-shit-928df0a7d5fa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31191081

Points: 3

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Deliberate Culture vs. Passive Culture

jsherry — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 11:56:33 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathansherry.medium.com/deliberate-culture-vs-passive-culture-37eaece6a9f1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769663

Points: 2

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Cold Callers Become Your Best Closers

jsherry — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:25:19 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathansherry.medium.com/sdrs-become-your-best-aes-3613cf8ee828

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25674053

Points: 2

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New comment by jsherry in "Ask HN: I'd appreciate advice on my current work situation"

jsherry — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:03:38 +0000

I’m shocked at all the suggestions to get a lawyer as step one. Yes you will need a lawyer at some point to get the terms into writing but what you need is business advice to prepare you for a convo w your employer.

That sort of advice is hard to provide without thorough context but few things to think about:

1. How key are you the sales process? If technical due diligence is a big part of the sales process then you have leverage. 2. Are you a key employee that the acquirer will want to put under contract for a couple years to ensure continuity? If so, you have leverage. 3. Do you generally get along w your employer? If so, you have soft leverage.

As an earlier commenter said, it’s all about leverage, leverage, leverage. No (or almost no) owner is going to give you a significant portion of his or her windfall because it’s “the nice thing to do”. This will only get done if you have leverage and the courage to use it.

P.s. there are all sorts of expensive tax implications here too when it comes to ownership transfer. Lawyers and accountants will be needed but not until you’ve neared some agreement in principle.

Zoom Privacy, Security Issues May Affect Telehealth

jsherry — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.daisybill.com/zoom-privacy-security-issues-may-affect-telehealth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815272

Points: 4

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New comment by jsherry in "The Marketing Stack of a Lazy SaaS Company"

jsherry — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:33:48 +0000

In short: Hubspot.

Much of the marketing automation we do now flows through a single system which tracks user activity end to end with minimal integration work. For example, this means that if a user signs up to receive a white paper it's much easier for us to customize the messaging based on their individual history. It can be done by integrating separate systems together but it gets messy.

I should add that I think we benefited hugely by doing things "the hard way" to start. By learning each and every digital marketing discipline separately we were much better equipped to deploy a big box solution like Hubspot in the end.

I'm more than happy to go deeper on this if you wish. Ping me at jsherry at cbinsights dot com.

New comment by jsherry in "The Marketing Stack of a Lazy SaaS Company"

jsherry — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 13:19:47 +0000

Hi there. I'm Jonathan - co-founder of CB Insights and co-author of this post.

A lot has changed in our stack since we originally published this, but happy to answer any questions.

Also, we recently raised $10M and are hiring like mad: https://www.cbinsights.com/jobs

New comment by jsherry in "How the Bloomberg terminal made history"

jsherry — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:22:54 +0000

Surprised this article mentioned chat only once. The secret sauce to Bloomberg's stickiness is their collaboration features via what's know as Instant Bloomberg.

Here's an article about a bunch of banks actually working together to unseat Bloomberg's chat: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/banks-back-rival-to-bloomberg...

New comment by jsherry in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)"

jsherry — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:01:51 +0000

CB Insights | Lead QA Engineer | NYC | Onsite | Visas Welcome

CB Insights is seeking an experienced QA engineer to build out our automated testing suite and ultimately build a team to own all aspects of QA.

By way of background, CB Insights is a National Science Foundation backed software-as-a-service company that uses data science, machine learning and predictive analytics to help our customers predict what's next—their next investment, the next market they should attack, the next move of their competitor, their next customer, or the next company they should acquire.

The world's leading global corporations including the likes of Cisco, Salesforce, Castrol and Gartner as well as top tier VCs including NEA, Upfront Ventures, RRE, and FirstMark Capital rely on CB Insights to make decisions based on data, not decibels.

If interesting, please contact me (Jonathan) directly at jsherry@cbinsights.com.

Thanks.

New comment by jsherry in "The history of barbed wire"

jsherry — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:37:26 +0000

If you have a taste for stories that span the spectrum of airport carpeting fanboys to those with more historical significance such as the story here, I cannot recommend the 99% invisible podcast enough.

Web - http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id394775318

The Marketing Stack of a Lazy SaaS Company

jsherry — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:34:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/saas-marketing-stack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9014410

Points: 3

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Newsletter Cohort Analysis: Understanding Our 48,000+ Readers

jsherry — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:39:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/newsletter-cohort-analysis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8668393

Points: 3

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The periodic table of tech investing

jsherry — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:09:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/cool-chart-periodic-table-tech-investing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8405133

Points: 2

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The Worst Startup Logo Ever

jsherry — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:00:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/worst-startup-logo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180435

Points: 5

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Post-Operative Check

jsherry — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:01:01 +0000

Article URL: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/this-may-hurt-a-bit/2014/04/07/post-operative-check/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649285

Points: 2

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Uber vs. Lyft: I’m having Kozmo vs. UrbanFetch flashbacks

jsherry — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:08:53 +0000

Article URL: http://4044walnut.com/uber-verus-lyft-kozmo-urbanfetch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7559731

Points: 2

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New comment by jsherry in "General Assembly raises $35M Series C"

jsherry — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:21:49 +0000

In NYC, GA conducts nighttime Meet & Greets with their "graduating" classes. As an employer, this is an efficient way to recruit. I attended one a couple weeks ago and thought it was fairly well organized. If GA can help people get placed into companies, then that's a huge advantage / differentiator for them versus online-only course providers.

So without speaking the quality of the classes themselves - GA specifically, or the concept of online v. in-person - this is a perspective worth considering before slamming the in-person education model altogether. Execution of the actually classes is obviously a separate discussion, but as I said one I'm not prepared to address.

Failure report: Dissecting the biggest flameouts in venture history

jsherry — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:50:52 +0000

Article URL: http://pando.com/2014/01/31/failure-report-dissecting-the-biggest-flameouts-in-venture-history/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7157931

Points: 2

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