Data Buying is Hard

The Initial Data Offering (IDO) community is a place for data enthusiast to discover new datasets daily.

The mission is to build a community of data enthusiasts and curate high-quality, unique datasets for businesses, researchers, and organizations worldwide.

Buying data is hard. It shouldn’t be but it is. Half the time you are educating the data vendors. Helping them create products.  Giving feedback. Finding data isn’t easy. How do we keep up with all the data product releases?

For hedge fund data buyers it’s even harder because you’re sourcing data for every investable industry- consumer, industrial, financial, b2b software, media, telecom, healthcare, etc.. Then there are the investable assets like commodities which have their own endless list of datasets. This is one of the reasons we created Initial Data Offering. A simple way to find out about new datasets coming to market. In the near future we will be able to share a forward-looking calendar. Get a glimpse of what vendors are releasing datasets.

For anyone from any industry that is buying data, partnering with data vendors, servicing the data community, or is a data enthusiast, initial data offering is the easy way to stay up to speed on new dataset launches. It’s as easy as signing up for the daily email. Or if you prefer, follow on LinkedIn and Twitter. And now thanks to my teammate Ethan, we have released weekly and monthly recaps! Missed an IDO? Want to review everything that happened over the last week or month? Check out the recaps by signing up for the email distribution! 

Data buying is hard. Data sourcing is an endless job of searching and taking meetings.  Finding data partners is a great way to expand your business. We hope to ease the pain of all of this with InitialDataOffering