Comment by kidnoodle

Still slowly working away on my location intelligence data union..

I’ve spent a while understanding what sort of market would make it viable. I think it does actually work if you can square: 10K participants per major metro area, revenue of about 2.9M per metro area (so say, 5K monthly recurring with about 50 customers).

At that point you could pay data union participants about $5 a week to share their location data with you.

From talking to some previous data union folks, the major challenges are paying out (my target is much higher than any union managed), and people dropping out over time.

My bet is that these are both solvable things by selling data products rather than just bundles of data, and the data source being very passive.

I’m also interested in the idea that such a union should act more like a union than previous efforts in this space, by actively defending members’ data from brokers.