“I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I w...” — Anthony Goldbloom Quote

I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.

It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.

Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

I didn't even know that there was a startup culture, that there were events with people who built businesses. When I started meeting those people and going in to that world, I felt like I was among my people for the first time in my life.

Stay away from family when you are working on a startup.