The Datapreneur
Nick Valiotti, Yordan IvanovMost fractional data work fails before it starts. This newsletter is about how to do it right — positioning, client work, and what actually gets results.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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Is BI dead?
Every company I’ve worked with has a graveyard.
It lives somewhere in Looker or Tableau or Metabase, and it’s full of dashboards nobody has opened since the person who built them left. Some of them still refresh every night. Somebody is st...
The retainer that ate your calendar
Why flat-fee fractional work slides into ops, and how to put a fence around it
A strategy retainer usually ends like a chess coach who agreed to look at the club’s radiator just once. 6 months later he knows every pipe in the building and...
I charge founders to tell them what they told me
There’s a sentence I hear on discovery calls more than any other.
“I can’t prove it, but something feels off.”
It usually comes late in the call, after the founder has walked me through the dashboards and the team. Then they lean back and...
I tell most people to keep their job
Your salary is the cheapest seed round you'll ever raise.
Every few days someone sends me a version of the same DM.
Client acquisition is a lagging indicator
Go Fractional surveyed 213 fractional professionals this year for the 2026 State of Fractional Work, the first benchmark built specifically for this workforce with live platform data. 90% named client acquisition as their number 1 challenge...
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Founder or Valiotti Data, datapreneur. Author of Your Fractional CDO — order on Amazon. I have several passions that drive me: Family, tennis, making beer, and analyzing data to help companies make better decisions.
On my second go at leading a team. Now, as a Head of Data Engineering, I write for data people who want to lead before anyone hands them the title.
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