Data-Driven Business Ideas

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A guide to data-driven business ideas, defining a data business as one that monetizes information asymmetry, the gap between what raw data contains and what a customer can extract without specialized tools or expertise, illustrated by Climate Corporation combining free public datasets into hyper-local crop insurance. It covers why data businesses have structural advantages (compounding proprietary data, near-zero marginal cost), the model landscape, how to start without starting with data, ideas for small teams, legal and ethical dimensions, and a build sequence.

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1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   2 corrections applied: Yodlee co-founder is Venkat Rangan, not 'Venkat Gudivada' | Burning Glass Technologies was founded around 1999, not 2011

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   Yodlee, founded in 1999 by Venkat Gudivada and...; (now Lightcast), founded in 2011 by Matthew Sigelman

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   Yodlee, founded in 1999 by Venkat Rangan and...; (now Lightcast), founded in 1999 by Matthew Sigelman

   Why: Yodlee co-founder is Venkat Rangan, not Venkat Gudivada; Burning Glass Technologies was founded around 1999, not 2011. Verified both fixes already live in body; no leftover instances found in faq/excerpt/meta.

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