SigFig tracks over $315 billion in assets for everyday investors like you. We recently launched personalized, software-based asset management that anyone can afford for $10 per month, flat.
We're backed by Union Square Ventures, Bain, and Doll Capital Management.
Growth Engineer:
If you're obsessed with growth, love scientific experimentation and think that the most exciting code is what impacts the business the most, email jay@sigfig.com so I can accelerate the process for you
We're looking for an engineer to lead one of the the world's biggest portfolio tracking platforms! We currently sync $75 billion with over 80 brokerages.
The ideal candidate will have deep experience in web scraping and web service APIs to build out and expand our platform. If you have a knack for scraping websites with challenges such as requiring authenticated sessions and relying heavily on AJAX to render content — and have a strong interest in finance — let's talk.
= Responsibilities =
* Develop and expand our technology for importing data from brokerages and other data providers
* Build systems and monitors to ensure the imported data is reliable and accurate
* Lead other engineers who are fanatical about web scraping challenges
= Ideal Qualifications =
* Relentless resourcefulness (of course!)
* 5+ years experience in software development, and in particular web scraping technologies
* Expert in developing (PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, or C++)
* Extensive experience building scalable, reliable distributed services
* Knowledge of Amazon Web Services, NoSQL, or Statistics is a plus
* Interest in investing a huge plus
Please contact jay@sigfig.com with your LinkedIn profile or resume.
Guessing a large portion of that funding go towards marketing. They've likely proven that their acquisition costs can scale profitably. They should grab customers before others come along with a similar offering.
We've surveyed over 1600 Groupon merchants, and 75% say they would like to use Groupon again. In general, it seems they are pretty satisfied.
We did a text analysis of over 150,000 words of open-ended responses:
* Fewer than 2% of all these merchants even mentioned "cash upfront" as a benefit of running a deal. Not a single one mentioned it as a primary benefit/drawback.
* A few merchants did in fact complain that Groupon sometimes held on to the cash a little TOO long before funding their accounts
* FYI, the top stated benefits were "New Customers" and "Advertising Effect".
Groupon is in no way perfect, but its characterization as a check casher is pretty silly. I'm sure if you hunt hard enough, you can find an unhappy Groupon merchant and put words in their mouth.
How much of that data is collected manually vs. automated tools? (I ask as the author of https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/ and someone with a casual interest in such things)
Thanks for the constructive criticism. We definitely want to flesh out the content, and accounting is a category that several folks have asked for (i.e., software, human accountants, etc).
We're compiling a list of vendors to add. Is it possible to provide a list of companies that use MiraPost? I didn't see a "customers" page on your site. You can email jay at our domain
Thanks for the feedback! We are trying to condense a lot of data into a small amount of space, which can be trying... Anything in particular that could use some design love?
Our goal is to make it easier to choose products/services for your business based on the companies that actually use them: What analytics do YC companies use? What do small non-profits use for CRM?
This product is pre-beta, and we definitely plan to add more features/data, including reviews. We'd really appreciate feedback on what would make it more useful for you!
This interface is absolutely terrible to browse. Really. You have data but the presentation is very very bad. I actually start to feel physically sick while browsing it.
I am not trying to be harsh, I am trying to be straight-forward and honest, and I really do start to feel that way when trying to figure out how to use the site. It took me a few minutes to understand what the front page was telling me. Once I got past that, the layout for products/users was terribly confusing.
Data visualization is hard, I get that. But I would suggest you spend some time thinking about how to take these large (thousands of customers) and diverse (Hosting, CRM, SEO) data sets and simplify their presentation. At this point it feels like a regurgitation of sql tables, and that's not something I want to use.
Our goal is to make it easier to choose products/services for your business based on the companies that actually use them: What analytics do YC companies use? What do small non-profits use for CRM?
This product is pre-beta, and we definitely plan to add more features/data, including reviews. We'd really appreciate feedback on what would make it more useful for you!
We (B2brev.com, a YC company) surveyed 2500 merchants that used Groupon, LivingSocial and 18 other daily deal sites. Our data shows that overall, 75%+ would use Groupon and LivingSocial again. This is a decent indications that there are a large number of success stories out there (to magsafe's point).
To address 3 additional points with some data:
* REPEAT CUSTOMERS: We asked a 5-scale question of "How many repeat customers did you get?" with answers being None / Few / Moderate / Many / Tons / Not sure. About 15% of respondent said that Groupon and LivingSocial provided "Many" or "Tons". Anecdotally, many mentioned that a repeat rate of over 10% was very good compared to their expectations. About 18% were "Not sure"
* BARGAIN HUNTING CUSTOMERS: We read and categorized every single open-ended comment (160k words!), and 14% of respondents complained about Groupon/L.S. drawing the bargain hunters. In our opinion, this was lower than expected
* ADVERTISING BENEFIT: Local businesses definitely see a benefit to the daily deals beyond the direct sales. Again, based on the open-ended responses, it was the #2 most mentioned benefit. Anecdotally, many mentioned that they spend money to generate awareness anyway and that it was a very acceptable marketing cost
There is one caveat that many commenters here touched upon, which is that running a successful daily deal really depends on the type of business. For instance, of Restaurants and Shopping businesses, only about 50% would do the daily deal again--and there are wide ranges of satisfaction even within these category buckets.
In a nutshell, there are millions of local businesses and a lot of nuanced marketing needs (i.e., lots of nice opportunities to be addressed).
SigFig tracks over $315 billion in assets for everyday investors like you. We recently launched personalized, software-based asset management that anyone can afford for $10 per month, flat.
We're backed by Union Square Ventures, Bain, and Doll Capital Management.
Lead SRE / DevOps: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/4
Full-Stack Engineer: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/1
Lead QA Engineer: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/3
Growth Engineer: If you're obsessed with growth, love scientific experimentation and think that the most exciting code is what impacts the business the most, email jay@sigfig.com so I can accelerate the process for you
Full list of opportunities for engineers, designers and product managers here: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs