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Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails

https://apparent.social/heat-map
21•west_subject•2h ago

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victorbjorklund•1h ago
Link does not work
spiralcoaster•1h ago
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.
syndacks•1h ago
Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!
high_byte•1h ago
would be nice to be able to simply get the list instead of having an ominous heatmap
pkoird•1h ago
Does the post explain how the data was obtained? Or is it simply some kind of scraped list to get attention?
Ecco•1h ago
For some reason all the datapoints seems to be shifted a few miles south-west.
mushufasa•55m ago
Marc Andreessen: "The warm intro is the first test."
sixhobbits•44m ago
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

baddash•35m ago
all the chicago ones are swimming out in lake michigan
irishcoffee•25m ago
All the Annapolis ones must be on their yachts in the bay
comrade1234•33m ago
I will fund this!
philippz•30m ago
great, this helps no one
AndrewKemendo•29m ago
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