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The Next Billion-Dollar IPO: Big Data Entrepreneurship

Drive Data Like Billy Beane

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As the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane faced a problem. Beane and the Oakland A’s had to field a competitive team without the big market budget of a team like the New York Yankees. In a story made famous by the movie Moneyball and the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, Beane turned to data and statistics.

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© 2014 David Feinleib

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Feinleib, D. (2014). The Next Billion-Dollar IPO: Big Data Entrepreneurship . In: Big Data Bootcamp. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0040-7_8

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