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The Nomics Update
by Clay Collins
This is the audio journal of Nomics.com CEO Clay Collins. The podcast tells stories from inside our cryptocurrency & bitcoin market data API company.Topics include Nomics’ product roadmap; new partnerships; company outlook; important new ideas shaping the future of Nomics.com and Nomics crypto market data API; as well as business strategy, philosophy, crypto investing & fundraising.Nomics.com launched in January of 2018 as an API-first company. The company was created in response to increasing demand for professional grade market data products & APIs for institutional investors.
Episodes
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Sucking At "Theory Of Mind" (And Why That's Harming You) - (Ep. 0055)
There's a concept in cognitive psychology called theory of mind, and theory of mind is the ability for someone to predict what someone else might be thinking in a given scenario. Young children have pretty horrific theory of mind. They're unable in most cases, you know, when kids are pretty…
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1-Week Into The Wim Hof Method (My Thoughts So Far) - (Ep. 0054)
Something I've been really curious about for a long time are the methods of Wim Hof. Wim Hof is a Dutch extreme athlete and a really likable guy. I've seen him interviewed several times and he doesn't have the typical stunt devil persona. He really seems to be coming from a great place and he is...
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Want Me To Publish You On the Nomics Update? - (Ep. 0053)
Something I've been meaning to do for a while is offer you the opportunity to post thoughts and tips and experiences here on the Nomics Update. We've got a nice audience kind of aggregated around what we're doing. Each episode will get a few thousand downloads, and generally I think the people…
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Cryptocurrency Data Consulting & Services (for Funds and Enterprises) - (Ep. 0052)
At Nomics, one of the things we don't talk about very often but something that's been really popular among our enterprise customers are our consultative or concierge data services. It's something that's a lot of fun because it allows us to partner at a deeper level with institutional investors,...
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The 9 Month Cycle of Founder Failure - (Ep. 0051)
I think founders for the most part seem to, at least speaking for myself here, I think founders go through roughly a nine month cycle of founder failure that starts up, gets going, and then, repeats itself over, and over, and over again. The cycle's pretty simple. I think most founders when they...
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Flippening Podcast Is Back (& Why I Almost Quit) - (Ep. 0050)
Hey, folks. I am pleased to tell you that the Flippening Podcast is back. It's been over a month since we published the last episode, and frankly, I didn't know if we were going to continue doing them. The Flippening Podcast, if you've ever heard if you've ever heard an episode, for example, the...
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Blockchain Projects I'd Start (If I Wasn't Building Nomics) - (Ep. 0049)
So Pravin, and I hope I'm pronouncing your name correctly Pravin, but Pravin from Block.Kitchen wrote in with a question, and I'm gonna address it. First off, Block.Kitchen, I didn't even know there was a dot Kitchen domain name. There's just so many now, it's crazy. It's hard to follow. I'm…
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Nomics' Origin Story - (Ep. 0048)
I got an invite to be interviewed for actually a pretty cool thing. The problem is it's not a interview where we get on the phone and they interview me and then they take notes and publish that. It's an interview where they send me a list of questions, and I need to answer them, and I'm bad at...
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Crypto Companies and Individuals Who Inspire Me - (Ep. 0047)
So back in the day I said I'd answer questions if you send them in. I believe also at the end of each episode I mentioned that I'll answer questions that folks submit as well. So I got a question from Casey. And they asked who inspires me in this space? What companies or individuals inspire me?…
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Yet Another Morning Routine Post (Yawn) - (Ep. 0046)
So I got a second question from Pravin. Pravin, I hope I'm pronouncing your name correctly, from block.kitchen. Again, man I didn't even know there was a .kitchen domain extension. I'm perplexed by these, just this infinite number of domain names available now. And the prices all over the board....
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Recruiting Is A Multiyear Endeavor - (Ep. 0045)
I think hiring is a multi-year ... a multi-year game. About half the people I ... we've hired at [Nomics 00:00:11] I've known ... oh, about a year. Some of them, two of them I knew for over a year before they were hired, and it's just so important, I think, as a CEO, to stay in contact [00:00:30]...
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Nomics.com Is Now A Brave Verified Publisher (Plus My Experience With Brave) - (Ep. 0044)
We just turned on Brave verified publisher status on nomics.com and I'm kind of excited about it. I don't think it's going to, at least in the short term, result in any kind of real and meaningful short term value. But I really like the direction that the Brave browser is going in. It's almost at...
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No More "Meet and Greet" Phone Calls - (Ep. 0043)
At the end of last week, I decided that I am no longer doing meet and greet phone calls or I don't know even calls that feel like they're going to be meet and greet phone calls. When someone says they want to do a meet and greet, the answer is just no. But recently, I've been hit up with a bunch…
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When I'm Transparent Here vs. Not - (Ep. 0042)
For the most part, I've been sharing general business advice on this podcast, and I really, really, really want that to change. For one, I don't know that I'm a general advice kind of person or an advice kind of persona at all. So what I've been sharing is not what I think is the right way to…
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Consistency (As Product Inspiration) Is Uninspired - (Ep. 0041)
I think it's dangerous for companies to become obsessed with consistency. I think there's a time and a place for consistency, and I'm not talking about consistency of execution, I'm talking about consistency of content. Of course, consistency of execution is important, being a consistent person,...
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Why My Tune Has Changed On Freelancers & Contractors - (Ep. 0040)
My thinking, over the years, on hiring freelancers and other people with nonpermanent status has really changed a lot over time. I used to be of the opinion that I wanted to hire lifers, people who are in it for the long haul, people who could develop deep company knowledge and really kind...
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What I'm Looking For In An Executive Assistant - (Ep. 0039)
So, I'm looking for an executive assistant, and I just want to put this out there. It's not a mad dash to hire someone. I'm not going to be hiring a recruiter. Yeah, I'm not going to be hiring a recruiter or running a strict process. I think it's the kind of thing where, when I find the right...
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Chief Communication Officer - (Ep. 0038)
One of my favorite blog posts is on the AVC.com blog. It came out in 2010. It's called What A CEO Does. This is on Fred Wilson's blog. In this blog post, it's pretty short, but it's incredibly powerful. In this blog post, Fred Wilson describes being on a board with another VC and [00:00:30] a...
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As a 2x Founder, This = The Best Advice I Can Give - (Ep. 0037)
So, I was reading this article in the New York Times about Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi, and how Donald Trump has never had to really go up against someone like Nancy Pelosi in business negotiations before. And why he's being a bit, you know, he's been frustrated by that. And someone in the...
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Bitcoin Won't Recover Until 2021 - (Ep. 0036)
Hey how's it going? I hope you're having a great day, a fantastic day wherever you are. So, I have been asked this a few times. I though I'd answer it here. What do I think of the current state of bear market and when are we going to recover? So, I went through this a little bit in 2013, 2014....
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Being An "API First" Company (And What This Means) - (Ep. 0035)
So, a while ago on our homepage, and in our header, and basically everywhere on our website, we put a little tagline below our logo. That tagline says, an API company. So if you go to nomics.com it says Nomics an API company. And I think this is really important for us to kind of state what our...
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Don't Make The Mistake of Forgetting What Phase of Growth You're In - (Ep. 0034)
Hey, it's me. Hope you're having a fantastic day, wherever you are. Or night, depending upon what part of the world you're in. So I wanted to share some thoughts about the product journey, buildings product, et cetera. I've had a lot of different kinds of experiences getting product feedback…
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Under Development - Open Source Apps for iOS, Android, WordPress etc. - (Ep. 0033)
Well, I'm having a pretty good day. My wife came over, and we watched [00:00:30] an episode of The Office which is something we've done. Not The Office, but we've had a show that we've tried to watch that gets our mind out of the day-to-day ever since our daughters were born. I have twin…
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Just Launched: Markets (Trading Pair) Analytics Page - (Ep. 0032)
Blog post link Hey, everyone, welcome to today's Nomics update. It is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and this is one of, in my opinion, one of the most important holidays of the year. I am really glad that at Nomics we take the day off and we observe it. I hope you're having a good day, a restful day...
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[Minicourse + Podcast] (Almost) Everything I Know About Startup HR - (Ep. 0031, Formerly Episode 27)
Here's the full blog post with more details. Links Mentioned In This Episode Video link HR docs mentioned in this episode Interview Questions Monthly Review Questions 15-Five Weekly Check-in Questions Company Dashboard Exit Interview All right, so this is going to be a mini course. The title of...
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In B2B Fintech, 30%+ of Product Value (Or More) Is In The Contract - (Ep. 0030)
I've had this new experience since being in this world, this financial world, dealing with hedge funds and exchanges and other folks who are customers, and it's really around product and the commercial contract and the role that the commercial contract plays in [00:00:30] the product. In the…
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Odd: Lots of Listens, Not Much Feedback - (Ep. 0029)
Hey there. This is episode 29. Holy crap, this is a real thing. This podcast seems to be going pretty well. Every week or so, listens are roughly doubling so I know people are listening to this. But I haven't gotten a lot of feedback yet, really. Someone did send me a message the other day, let's...
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Dear VCs - Please Don't Ask to "Learn More About Our Business" - (Ep. 0028)
So today's entry is a bit of a rant, and it's really around an email that I get pretty often. Especially when we do things that start getting a little bit of public attention. I often get an email from a VC, that essentially says, "Hey, I'm from such and such VC firm. I'd really like to hop on…
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(Almost) Everything I Know About Working With Recruiters - (Ep. 0027)
All right, this podcast episode is going to be called Almost Everything I Know About Working With Recruits. So I think in the past definitely, definitely one of the biggest mistakes I've made is not paying the best recruiter I can as much as we can afford for the state of the company [00:00:30]…
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Part 2 - ShapeShift Layoffs & Lessons Learned (About Focus & Discipline) - (Ep. 0026)
So this is Part Two of my reflection on the Shape Shift layoffs. I think anytime we start observing rounds of layoffs from an industry, I think it's important for CEOs in the space, founders in the space, really anyone in the space whose key and vital to the success of a company to reflect on...
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Thought on Layoffs at ShapeShift (+ Thoughts on Focus & Discipline) - (Ep. 0025)
I want to share a little bit about my thoughts on the ShapeShift layoffs. And a lot of empathy I'm having for Erik Voorhees right now. So first off, I think it's pretty cool that he was upfront about these layoffs. There are definitely things that companies can do to not let it leak out to the...
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Why We're Leaving Telegram (And Why That Might Be A Mistake) - (Ep. 0024)
I want to share with you why we shifted away from telegram for our community and for our market data API support. So, the impetus [00:00:30] for this really came when I received an email from an API user who wanted free support via email and we don't offer free support for our API via email. We…
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Why Our Developers Aren't Launching Anything This Year - (Ep. 0023)
Hey. So this one might be a little bit off topic. Maybe it's not. No, it definitely qualifies as how I define this podcast as my journal. So I want to talk about why in my humble opinion and after years of bad experiences why I think launching [00:00:30] should be a marketing event and not an...
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Why We're Building a "Boring" Business - (Ep. 0022)
Man, I really love a boring business. I think boring businesses are really beautiful in a lot of ways for so many reasons. I first started thinking about boring businesses when this person I knew made an absolute killing back in the day. I don't even know if their company is around anymore, but...
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Why You Probably Should *Not* Partner With Us - (Ep. 0021)
I get a lot of emails almost I'd say one every 2-3 days from someone that basically says something like, "Hey, I love what you're doing. We should partner. Let's get on the phone to explore." Right? I [00:01:00] never ... it's hard to respond to those, right? At the very beginning when we were…
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This Keeps Me Going When I'm Frustrated At Work - (Ep. 0020)
I had some time off during Christmas, and the holidays, and the New Year, and stuff. My family went to California, spent some time in remote desert places, and some dive bars. My parents took the kids for a few days, and my wife and I went and [00:00:30] drove back roads around some of the areas...
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2019 Goals & Nikhil Kalghatgi's 9 Categories of Moonshots - (Ep. 0019)
I started thinking about moonshots after speaking with one of our investors Nikhil at CoVenture Crypto. He's a partner there. And I guess the back story on this is Nikhil Kalghatgi met with me and also Ateet from [00:02:30] CoVenture Crypto who runs their quant fund. We met for breakfast when I…
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Bear Market Update: Equity is Sexy Again - (Ep. 0018)
It's me reporting you live from the depths of the bear market in the space, and I've been talking to a bunch of investors recently, I mean, I guess that's what I do all day for the most part. But, I am reflecting on the kinds of companies that are getting funded here recently, like companies that...
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Some (Difficult) Lessons Learned During Long Sales Cycles - (Ep. 0017)
Recently, I've been contemplating the gift of learning patience from longer sales cycles. In a previous life, I come from kind of prosumer, B2B, SaaS world, where a lot of sales were driven by scarcity marketing or incentivizing customers to purchase because [00:00:30] there was perhaps a…
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Why We're Not Celebrating Our Series A - (Ep. 0016)
Man oh, man am I'm nervous. Man, am I'm nervous. Had trouble sleeping last night and all of that. So tomorrow, I'm recording this ahead of time. So tomorrow, but you probably have already heard of it by now or at least we've told other people, you might not have heard yourself. Tomorrow we are...
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Announcing Nomics' Series A VC Financing - (Ep. 0015)
Hey, this is Clay and I am pleased to announce that Nomics has raised a Series A round venture capital financing. Leading the round is Arthur Ventures, and also participating are Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, TokenSoft, Ben Davenport, who is the co-founder and former CTO of BitGo,...
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No, We (Unfortunately) Can't Tell You Who Our Customers Are - (Ep. 0014)
When I first got started [00:01:00] in the cryptocurrency space, I started looking at websites like CoinMarketCap, and there was no about page. There was really no phone number. People wouldn't tell you who they are. People were using pseudonyms. Everyone was like cryptopeeweeherman on Twitter.…
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Winter is Coming For Crypto Startups (& Why Org Chart Debt Sucks) - (Ep. 0013)
So I'm pretty tired today. We decided when we first started Nomics that we just weren't going to build a marketing time and we weren't going to hire admins or directors of operations and it's for a bunch of reasons, but I see a lot of really bloated organizations, especially in the block chain...
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Ask Me Anything - (Ep. 0012)
Quick update today. If you go to: asknomics.com, it'll send you a page where you can record audio question. If it's a good question and relevant to what we do and all that, we will answer it live on this podcast, which is the Nomics update. Anyway, I look forward to hearing your questions. I'm...
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How Adderall, Meditation & Therapy Changed My Life - (Ep. 0011)
I want to talk for a bit about how Adderall, the drug, meditation, and therapy have changed my life. I realize this is a diversion from what we normally cover, and I think it's questionable whether or not I should even be talking about these issues in this podcast, right. It's called the Nomics...
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Why I Turn Down 95% Flippening Guest Pitches - (Ep. 0010)
Each day, almost every day, I get pitched by a company or a person that would like to be on the Nomics ... on the Flippening podcast, our most popular podcast, the one that is reliably getting over 25,000 downloads per episode. Often it's over 50,000 downloads per episode. Sometimes it's a PR…
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"I Found A Bug - Nomics.com (or Your API) is Reporting Different Values Than CoinMarketCap"
Hey, this is Clay. Welcome to The Nomics Update for today, and today I want to talk about something that's come up a few times here in the last month. We actually get a few bug logs, bug alerts from our community that essentially come in and say the following, "CoinMarketCap is showing this…
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Our Two Cyber Monday Deals ... Or Make Us Your Best Offer - (Ep. 0008)
Hey, it's me, your trusty market-data API, CEO here at Nomics. This is usually my audio journal, but today I'm going use this opportunity to shill. First off, how was your Thanksgiving? I hope it was good. I hope you avoided fights with the in-laws or whatever, having to explain why everyone...
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Now Providing Crypto Order Book Data At 100ms Intervals (Nobody Else Can Do This) - (Ep. 0007)
Hey, welcome to my journal, for whatever day it is. Okay, so, have some exciting news. I'm pleased to announce that we can now provide order book data at 100 millisecond intervals. So you might notice that, at the middle tier of our API plan, we're able to provide order book data, roughly at...
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Nomics.com Is Now Much Faster, And Why Site Speed Matters (Thank You Google) - (Ep. 0006)
Hey, welcome to my audio journal for today. Today I want to talk a little bit about site speed. Back in the day, Google did everyone a huge favor by saying that, all things being equal, faster sites will outrank slower sites. Right? They essentially said that site speed would be a ranking factor....
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This is the audio journal of Nomics.com CEO Clay Collins. The podcast tells stories from inside our cryptocurrency & bitcoin market data API company.Topics include Nomics’ product roadmap; new partnerships; company outlook; important new ideas shaping the future of Nomics.com and Nomics crypto market data API; as well as business strategy, philosophy, crypto investing & fundraising.Nomics.com launched in January of 2018 as an API-first company. The company was created in response to increasing demand for professional grade market data products & APIs for institutional investors.
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