Entries by Matt

Parashat Pinchas

This is #Snapchatorah for where Hillel Fuld takes the Torah portion, learns some lessons and apply them to entrepreneurship and startups. The Torah is a smart book, this week’s Torah portion is no different, there are at least four different lessons we can learn, but I am going to choose one of them. Some of the […]

Parashat Balak

This is #Snapchatorah for where Hillel Fuld takes the Torah portion, learns some lessons and apply them to entrepreneurship and startups. This week’s Torah portion is Balak, about a man who wanted to destroy the Jews. Not the first and not the last. Only this time he didn’t use guns, he used words. What you need to […]

How to set up a DBA

How to set up a DBA Based on previous posts you may think by DBA I am referring to a Database Administrator, but in this case DBA is an abbreviation for “doing business as.” I recently open up Tevunah Consulting and want to share the experience of creating a DBA. If you’re a sole proprietorship, […]

Parashat Bamidbar

This is #Snapchatorah for where Hillel Fuld takes the Torah portion, learns some lessons and apply them to entrepreneurship and startups. The Torah (Old Testament) has five books, today we start the fourth one Bamidbar; the book of numbers. The literal translation of Bamidbar means in the dessert. Why is a book, one of five books, […]

Parashat Behar

Behar (בְּהַר — Hebrew for “On the Mount”) Ironically for the next two weeks I won’t be able to transcribe Hillel’s #snapchatorah because I’ll be in Israel. So I’m giving a run at writing a D’var Torah that connects to modern life. In short Behar tells the laws of the Shmita and limits on debt slavery. Shmita is the 7th […]

Life Insurance

I spent a summer working as a Financial Representative Intern, which boiled down to me calling people and trying to sell them life insurance and annuities. From the internship I learned about the different types of Life Insurance and what the differences are. Life insurance can be divided into two basic classes: temporary and permanent. and within […]

Parashat Emor

Emor (אֱמֹר — Hebrew for “Say”) This is #Snapchatorah for where Hillel Fuld takes the Torah portion, learns some lessons and apply them to entrepreneurship and startups Add Hillel on Snapchat Snapchat.com/add/hilzfuld  This is a very technical portion. So I thought and thought and came up with something that I think is super relevant to me, and to […]

Data Janitor

What is a Data Janitor? From Wikipedia: “A data janitor is a person who works to take big data and condense it into useful amounts of information. Also known as a “data wrangler,” a data janitor sifts through data for companies in the information technology industry. A multitude of start-ups rely on large amounts of […]

Parashat Kedoshim

Kedoshim (קְדֹשִׁים — Hebrew for “Holy ones”) This is Hillel Fuld’s  #Snapchatorah for Parashat Kedoshim. Add Hillel on Snapchat Snapchat.com/add/hilzfuld  This week’s Torah Portion is Kedoshim. What does Kedoshim mean? It means holy. The portion begins commanding us to be holy. What does that mean? The portion begins קְדֹשִׁים תִּהְיוּ  – Be Holy. What does that mean “Be Holy”? The Torah gives us […]

Medicare payment comparisons

For this post I wanted to experiment with Choropleth Maps, and interactive visuals. At my past company I could have used Tableau which has built in Geo charts which are really pretty, but for a more open alternative I am using Plotly which also has a R integration which I would have needed anyway to clean the data […]