Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets
▻https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/004/862/107/original/0f2b67672f8aa011.mp4
Last month I my attention was drawn to something suspicious: A fake LinkedIn profile connecting to Washington think tank types and senior US officials.
Even weirder: Her face itself appeared to be fake.
How your employer uses perks like wellness programs, phones and free food to control your life
▻https://theconversation.com/how-your-employer-uses-perks-like-wellness-programs-phones-and-free
Companies offer all sorts of benefits and extras to attract the most favored workers, from health care and stock options to free food. But all those perks come at a price : your freedom. There’s a reason labor historians call these perks “welfare capitalism,” a term that originated to describe company towns and their subsidized housing, free classes and recreational activities. Like government welfare, offering any benefits that people come to rely on is also a convenient vehicle to mold (...)
#Facebook #DropBox #LinkedIn #travail #travailleurs #surveillance
10 Proven Strategies to Market Startups on #linkedin
▻https://hackernoon.com/10-proven-strategies-to-market-startups-on-linkedin-378fd5485369?source=
Do you see LinkedIn as just a professional networking site or a prolific social media platform?Are you aware of the potential of using a LinkedIn #marketing strategy for your business?Do you know how to use LinkedIn for marketing your startup?To know all this and more, this LinkedIn marketing tutorial blog for your #startup is a great way to begin!LinkedIn is more than just a social networking site that serves to connect job aspirants with employers or fosters strategic business partnerships.In fact, LinkedIn is widely used across the globe to seek employment. It is home to several recruiters. But it’s a whole lot more than that.With over 450 million professionals available on this network, it’s also an impactful marketing tool. LinkedIn connects individuals and adds tremendous value for (...)
#linkedin #curation vs. Linkedin Publisher
▻https://hackernoon.com/linkedin-curation-vs-linkedin-publisher-2b7570826cbf?source=rss----3a814
LinkedIn publisher was a giant opportunity: to be the place for the professionals’ stories. But it’s very buggy, and doesn’t get eyeballs like that status update. The curation page is looking better these days…▻https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/hustle-culture-worships-workaholism-4958778/discussion matters. comments on stories, status updates, maybe that is the attention span of the internet worker.Originally published at community.hackernoon.com on February 3, 2019.Linkedin Curation vs. Linkedin Publisher was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this (...)
PM Career Tips w/ Nitin Julka, Group PM @ LinkedIn
▻https://hackernoon.com/pm-career-tips-w-nitin-julka-group-pm-linkedin-40ca0de188da?source=rss--
AWIP fireside chat with Nitin Julka, co-hosted by WeWork SFOn Thursday, April 26th, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) held a fireside chat with Nitin Julka, a Group PM at LinkedIn, leading LinkedIn’s Campaign Manager, where we discussed advice he had for aspiring PMs on the cusp of becoming PMs as well as concrete tips on how to climb the ladder to PM career success.For Aspiring PMsBe methodical — come up with a list of interested companiesMaking a list of companies (typically I separate companies by sector, funding stage, interest in the founders) with the criteria you want to satisfy is a great way to have a methodical way to proceed through interviews. This will help solve a lot of the early questions, such as, “What kind of startups do I like? Which industries?” And this will even come in (...)
Learnings from 2019 #scrum Master Trends Report
▻https://hackernoon.com/learnings-from-2019-scrum-master-trends-report-b43a5368d68f?source=rss--
By: Dave West, CEO & Product Owner, Scrum.org2018 was a big year for the Scrum Master with Glassdoor describing the importance of the role and LinkedIn listing Scrum Master as one of the most promising jobs of 2019. Slowly, the Scrum Master has moved out of the world of geek to mainstream acceptance. And that is not a surprise. More and more organizations appreciate the importance of agility, to be able to respond more rapidly to ever changing market conditions. That move to agility requires a change to the way in which teams are managed, how work is structured and the very relationship between the people doing the work and the organization they work within. The guide to this change is the Scrum Master.The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report is an update to the 2017 Scrum Master Salary (...)
7 Signs You Need to Fire Your #blockchain Consultant
▻https://hackernoon.com/7-signs-you-need-to-fire-your-blockchain-consultant-bfa01f8d6bb?source=r
Source: Digital SpyWe’ve all been there, looking at the lush green grass that is the decentralized economy and thought about carving up a piece for ourselves. We have talked to the first three results thrown up by googling #ico Consultants and scoured our LinkedIn connections to find the best one for our business.The Lord knows how much we’ve negotiated with these Blockchain experts demanding top dollar in an economy where everything is crashing down.I wanted to share our learnings with the newcomers to the fold in a bid to end the debate on the question of scam ICOs. Sure, there will be few rotten apples in the orchard but sometimes, it is the bad fertilizers and poor farming techniques that lead to crop failure.We spoke to several ICO Founders and came to realize that a lot of the (...)
LinkedInLocal: the Grassroots IRL Movement Taking the World by Storm
▻https://hackernoon.com/linkedinlocal-the-grassroots-irl-movement-taking-the-world-by-storm-8ab3
Extraordinary things can happen from a simple face-to-face chat. Australian businesswoman Anna McAfee understood this very well when she posted a status to her #linkedin calling for others in the area to meet her for coffee. That May afternoon in 2017, just 15 people showed up — but they sparked a global movement.Accompanying her status post with the hashtag #LinkedInLocal, it didn’t take long for others to catch on to the idea; 100,000 others caught on, to be exact. Reaching 80 countries and 500 cities within, the idea of LinkedIn Local brought forward thinking businesspeople of every industry together to meet as people, not resumes. During these meetups, participants put their profiles on the proverbial back burner, and instead speak for themselves through their passion for their work (...)
Why Do We Keep Elevating Horrible CEOs?
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Back in 2007, I accepted a job as the IT Manager for tribe.net, one of the first social networks. It was started as part of a triumvirate of websites by three CEOs who had linked up to buy the Six Degrees patent. You see, in the early days of the internet there was one social network called SixDegrees and they patented the equation for graphing how many degrees away from any other person on their social network. This was bought by the founders of Tribe, Friendster, and LinkedIn — Mark Pincus, Jonathan Abrams, and Reid Hoffman. I thought it was pretty cool to work for Tribe at first, and then I realized that the people in charge had no sense of ethics. Working with Andrew Trader (popularly known as AT) and Mark Pincus was a bit like talking to Donald Trump — whatever story they made up that (...)
#ceo #horrible-ceo #startup-life #startup-ethics #venture-capital
Algorithmic survival of the fittest
▻https://hackernoon.com/algorithmic-survival-of-the-fittest-13393b81a300?source=rss----3a8144eab
In Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the concept of survival of the fittest stands for the phenomenon that the traits of life forms that have the biggest reproductive success will, over time, become prevailing, while other traits disappear.I would like to adopt this framework for the age of algorithms. On the leading tech platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok (gotta be inclusive here), algorithms play a key role in selecting what information people get to see, and who gets to be seen. Since these services’ business models are centered around advertising, their algorithms are optimized for making people spend as much time as possible on them.Thanks to the vast amounts of usage data generated by billions of daily users as well as the ever-improving (...)
The Future of Visual-based Social Networks on a #blockchain
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-visual-based-social-networks-on-a-blockchain-36d11842bbbf?
Сentralised social networks were a common sense until recently.Image by HurcaIn Facebook, #instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and others users are somewhat directed to consume particular content. Organic reach constantly loses power opening the way for paid promotions. Armies of bots and fake accounts raise hugely filling our news feeds with forced content. Some may admit it becomes more like delving into garbage.Creators spend time and effort to deliver quality content. Sadly, traditional social networks don’t recognise and reward them. Quality content attracts new users, generates huge advertising revenues, while for creators being rewarded somehow is sort of a private business. Personal data gathering and constant tracking raise many questions after the Facebook and Cambridge (...)
Melinda Gates’ New Research Reveals Alarming Diversity Numbers | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/melinda-gates-mckinsey-diversity-research-alarming
Point de vue de milliardaire : Nous sommes en mal d’ engineers (à l’américaine) pour nos boîtes et mes copines n’arrivent toujours qu’avec les armes d’une femme traditionnelle à contrôler les affaires de leurs maris. En plus nous rendons les system instable qui nous nourrit si nous acceptons que les différences de race freinent la promotion des êtres les plus doués.
C’est très bien si MG met à disposition une petite partie de ses milliards pou aider les femmes défavorisées. C’est déjà moins bien quand c’est fait dans la perspective de pouvoir encore mieux nous contrôler et exploiter. Elle est peut-être en train de préparer le chemin pour la première femme présidente des États Unis qui ne sera toujours que la représentante d’une association de malfaiteurs et de ses bandes armées.
Alors que faire pour récupérer sa fondation afin de former les révolutionnaires dont nous, les petits gens avons besoin ? Il ne faut pas se contenter d’une part de gateau. Il faut mettre la main sur la pâtisserie entière ;-)
The report arrives two years after Melinda Gates announced plans to build up a personal office, Pivotal Ventures, to dedicate resources and attention to supporting women in tech.
EXECUTIVES AT TECH companies say gender diversity matters. They opine that there aren’t enough women in tech, and express outrage and frustration that just 11 percent of senior tech leaders are women. But in reality they spend very little of their philanthropic dollars attempting to close this gender and race gap, according to new research released today by Melinda Gates in partnership with McKinsey & Company.
Last year, according to the report, only 5 percent of companies’ philanthropic giving went to programs that focused explicitly on women and girls in tech. And less than 0.1 percent of their grants went to programming for women of color—a group whose representation in tech is getting worse. Over the past decade, the ratio of black, Latina, and Native American women receiving computing degrees has dropped by a third, from 6 percent to just four percent.
The companies investigated found that last figure so alarming that twelve of the 32 participants are taking immediate action. They’re uniting to form the Reboot Recognition Tech Coalition, a joint effort by companies like Microsoft, Qualcomm, and LinkedIn to close the gender gap for women of color in tech. They aim to double the number of underrepresented women of color graduating with computer science degrees by 2025, and they’re collectively pledging $12 million toward this goal over three years. This group will coordinate to direct their giving collectively, with the twin goals of creating a set of guidelines that will revamp the computer science major to appeal more to women of color and while building dedicated communities that will support these women within the industry, among other things.
Gates has long contended that collecting data is critical to addressing the social challenges she has spent the second part of her career tackling as a philanthropist; companies may say they care deeply about problems, but until the research exists to show them exactly what the problem looks like, how it’s changing, and what measures have been shown to be effective in addressing it, not much changes. It’s the same insight Tracy Chou had when, as a programmer at Pinterest in 2013, she published a Medium post asking her peers to contribute the number and percentage of female engineers they employed.
The report arrives two years after Gates announced plans to build up a personal office, Pivotal Ventures, to dedicate resources and attention to supporting women in tech—in addition to the work she does with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. When we spoke about it then, she voiced the need for more research. “I can’t go convince governments to work on female issues unless I have data,” she said, adding, “Transparency is one of the first things that makes change.”
Entitled “Reboot Representation: Using CSR and Philanthropy to Close the Gender Gap in Tech,” the report reviews how 32 large tech companies, including Google, eBay and Salesforce have worked internally to support women and close the gender gap. Taken together, these companies brought in $500 billion in sales last year, and they spent more than $500 million on philanthropy. Of that, $24 million went to support programming for women and girls and just $335,000 targeted at programs aimed at women of color.
In addition to surveying companies about their existing strategies, researchers spoke with more than 100 leaders in the field to determine what strategies were proving effective. The resulting research forms a playbook for companies interested in promoting and supporting gender diversity more effectively. It includes tips for what makes programs successful, advice on how to pick and set a strategy that is in line with a company’s business objectives, and a self-assessment to help companies figure out whether their efforts are working.
Researchers discovered that companies often didn’t spend their money in data-driven research-underlined ways: Two-thirds of the the companies surveyed concentrated their funding on programs for kids between kindergarten and 12th grade, while research suggests that programs targeting college-age women to bolster their enthusiasm for the field before they choose majors and commit to a career, were more effective. “Few invest philanthropically earlier in higher education to build the cohort they will ultimately recruit from,” write the reports’ authors.
What’s more, companies rarely coordinate these philanthropic efforts. Within an institution, there are often multiple people working on gender and racial parity, within in human resources, diversity and inclusion teams, or as part of a corporate social responsibility strategy. Yet there’s rarely one person overseeing it all.
The most important things companies can do, according to Gates, is coordinate these efforts. That’s why she’s excited about the potential of the coalition. As she blogged today, “By working together, they will be able to reach more young women.” The answer to the everyone-in-hoodies problem is not a silver bullet, but a concentrated, industry-wide effort to solve problems the way computer scientists solve problems: methodically, by collecting data, understanding the issues, and testing strategies until the problem is solved.
Sobriété numérique imposée : merci LinkedIn ! – Jean-Marc Jancovici
▻https://jancovici.com/publications-et-co/bric-a-brac/sobriete-numerique-imposee-merci-linkedin
Driver: are you a robot, or a human?
Cop: I say I am a human, but actually you have no way to check (and some reasons to doubt it because occasionally I omit a word – or add an extra one – in a sentence). But if you ever trespass again a limit that you do not know, I will act as a robot, applying my own (ill-)logic without any feeling.
Many thanks to Kafka, Orwell, Terry Gilliam and Ubu Roi.
Mathilde Ramadier : « Echouer, un privilège que s’arrogent les patrons de la Silicon Valley »
▻https://abonnes.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete-2018/article/2018/08/20/mathilde-ramadier-echouer-un-privilege-que-s-arrogent-les-patrons-de ?
Alors que l’échec est vu comme une expérience positive et encouragée par les magnats de la Silicon Valley, pour l’essayiste Mathilde Ramadier, il se fait aux dépens des travailleurs.
Mais il n’y a pas que des génies dans les start-up, non ? Il y a aussi de simples employés, parfois. L’échec est-il tout autant profitable aux petites mains du numérique ?
L’échec vertueux, c’est-à-dire vecteur de possibilités et rémissible, serait donc l’apanage des décideurs
Paris, juin 2017. Lors de l’inauguration de la Station F, le plus grand incubateur de start-up du monde, le président de la République Emmanuel Macron prononce un discours. Il y parle « des gens qui réussissent et des gens qui ne sont rien ». Pas ceux qui ne « font » rien, ceux qui ne « sont » rien. Parce qu’ils ne sont pas entrepreneurs, ils sont néantisés. Et c’est bien parce qu’ils ne réussissent pas qu’ils n’ont pas leur place dans la « start-up nation ».
L’échec vertueux, c’est-à-dire vecteur de possibilités et rémissible, serait donc l’apanage des décideurs. Rien de neuf sous le soleil importé de Californie… Mais alors, qui sont ces gens qui ne « sont » rien ?
L’allégorie du « Titanic »
Un jour, un entrepreneur français m’a humblement expliqué, dans une lettre ouverte publiée sur le réseau LinkedIn, que l’écosystème des start-up élimine naturellement les plus faibles, et que c’est très bien ainsi : « Si tu te demandes toujours pourquoi certains continuent à apprécier le monde darwiniste des start-up, je pense que c’est avant tout parce que nous savons que nous aurons des choses extraordinaires à raconter plus tard à nos enfants et petits-enfants. On ne s’ennuiera jamais. Pendant ce temps, d’autres passeront leur vie dans des jobs alimentaires et sans intérêt aucun. »
Ceux qui « passent leur vie dans des jobs alimentaires et sans intérêt aucun » sont ces mêmes gens qui « ne sont rien », ceux à qui le discours des failcon ne profite pas parce qu’il ne leur est pas destiné. Pour eux, l’échec n’est pas une prouesse mais une fatalité.
Pour que Jeff Bezos et ses pairs puissent prendre des risques pour ensuite rebondir, il faut que d’autres essuient leur échec avec eux – avec leur investissement ou, pire, leur simple force de travail. Ils en subissent alors d’autres conséquences.
Avril 2018. Un rapport ordonné par le comité d’hygiène, de sécurité et des conditions de travail (CHSCT) tire une nouvelle fois la sonnette d’alarme sur les conditions de travail des employés d’Amazon dans l’entrepôt logistique de Montélimar, dans la Drôme ; 71 % des cadres y sont insomniaques, 70 % des employés évoquent le stress au travail et 40 % ont déjà consulté un médecin. Les pauses pour se rendre aux toilettes sont chronométrées et certains manageurs interdisent de parler. « C’est un système qui ne pardonne pas la médiocrité », reconnaît l’un d’eux. On imagine les employés d’Amazon de Montélimar à une failcon, face à des entrepreneurs qui leur apprendront que c’est en tombant qu’on apprend à marcher.
Who is behind #ico bench ?
▻https://hackernoon.com/who-is-behind-ico-bench-1fb7afb8e7e7?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
Investigative OpinionICO bench tries very hard to hide it’s company details and the identity of it’s founders. So far it has been successful with this, however some thing are obvious and cannot be hidden. I conducted an investigation, and based on logic patterns came to conclusion of possible the people behind infamous ICO bench.Let’s start with the facts. What we know about ICO bench?The site was registered on GoDaddy with privacy protection on 04.07.2017, from St. Petersburg Russia.According to Linkedin ICO bench is located in St. Petersburg, Russia.There are some people working for ICO bench according to Linkedin, however they are all pawns, none of them has senior role.What can we expect from ICO bench founder(s)?Since ICO bench is one of the biggest ICO listing sites in the world it is (...)
#icobench #blockchain #ico-bench-dotcom #investigative-opinion
Medium Just Took Down A Post It Says Doxed ICE Employees
▻https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/heres-why-medium-and-github-just-took-down-a-post
Medium, the blogging platform, and GitHub, a code repository, just suspended posts containing the LinkedIn information of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees. Both the post and the database, which was first removed from Medium and then from GitHub, were created by data artist Sam Lavigne.
Twitter also suspended Russel Neiss’s bot account, @iceHRGov@github.com, that was automatically tweeting information from the database.
Lavigne scraped and downloaded the names, job titles, and city-level locations of ICE employees, and posted that data to GitHub (a website that hosts code repositories and was recently acquired by Microsoft). He wrote a blog post about the project on Medium, which linked to the database on GitHub.
Lavigne’s project was in response to the increasingly explosive situation at the US–Mexico border, where news reports are emerging daily about how children who’ve crossed the border into the US are being separated from their parents and detained.
“Medium’s Rules don’t allow posts that name specific individuals for the purpose of targeted harassment or shaming,” the company wrote in an email to Lavigne, which he provided to BuzzFeed News. Specifically, Medium said the post violated its rule against “doxing,” or the “aggregation of publicly available information to target, shame, blackmail, harass, intimidate, threaten or endanger.”
GitHub said in an email that it “removed the project because it violates our community guidelines,” which include “policies against use of GitHub for doxxing and harassment, and violating a third party’s privacy.”
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.
The data has since been copied to a publicly available Google spreadsheet; Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.
In his original blog post, Lavigne said the dataset he downloaded contains the names of 1,595 people.
“While I don’t have a precise idea of what should be done with this data set, I leave it here with the hope that researchers, journalists and activists will find it useful,” he wrote. “I find it helpful to remember that as much as internet companies use data to spy on and exploit their users, we can at times reverse the story, and leverage those very same online platforms as a means to investigate or even undermine entrenched power structures.”
On Twitter, supporters of Lavigne’s project spread the link to the data; one said the list should be used to locate ICE employees and deny them “employment, services, and friendship.”
But others felt the scraping and downloading of LinkedIn profile data was unfair to the workers.
LinkedIn, which does not provide an easily accessible API, has sued individuals who’ve scraped its data.
In a statement regarding the ICE employee data, a spokesperson said, "We do not support or condone what immigration authorities are doing at the border, but we can’t allow the illegal use of our member data. We will take appropriate action to ensure our members’ data is protected and used properly.”
Previously, a US district judge ordered LinkedIn to allow third parties to scrape publicly shared data from its website.
LinkedIn, Medium, and ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The best 19 proven steps how to get a job
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-best-19-proven-steps-how-to-get-a-job-ff1c23eaa515?source=rss----3a8
how to get a tech job in 19 proven stepsBe ready to climb your next mountainTL;DR; Find the job, get obsessed, get an offer, begin the journey.Before you consider a job in any company, big or small, you need to make clear for yourself what you really want in your personal and professional life. Understand what you are valuing and what expectations you’ve got from your future employee. I need to be true to yourself on why you are changing the job and why not to try and improve the existing one. Please have all “Whys” answered.It may be even one of those prominent ones like Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook or Microsoft (including GitHub and LinkedIn). It does not really matter for me. The only assumptions I am making are that it is extremely hard to get into a company and the bar is pretty (...)
#job-hunting #programming #interview #how-to-get-a-tech-job #careers
Case Study: Recruiters of the New Era
▻https://hackernoon.com/case-study-recruiters-of-the-new-era-b9a375f143d?source=rss----3a8144eab
We all have a strong feeling inside that the technology will be an integral part of our everyday life with Iot, AI, and #blockchain dominating in the news. One day we’ll get used to all the innovations and smart-devices. But one thing will remain the same — most of us need a job to buy necessary and not-so-much things. However, the way of searching for new employees will be up to date too.Let’s meet Dan. He is an average 27 years old Recruiter, who had been working as a Human Resources Manager for the past eight years. Right now he has a task to find an office manager for the headquarter.It has been tough for Dan to find a perfect candidate. After weeks, even months of scrolling CVs in job listing websites, Linkedin, and social media platform, he decided it was time to try something new.Dan (...)
Web Scraping With #google Sheets
▻https://hackernoon.com/web-scraping-with-google-sheets-20d0dce323cc?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3-
Web scraping and utilizing various APIs are great ways to collect #data from websites and applications that can later be used in data #analytics. There is a company called HiQ that is well known for web scraping. HiQ crawls various “Public” websites to collect data and provide analytics for companies on their employees. They help companies find top talent using sites data like Linkedin, and other public sources to gain the information needed in their algorithms.However, they ran into legal issues when Linkedin asked them to cease and desist as well as put in certain technical methods to slow down HiQ’s web crawlers. HiQ subsequently sued Linkedin and won! The judge said as long as the data was public, it was ok to scrape!Image from commit strip (Here)Web scraping typically requires a complex (...)
Job Search: Top #linkedin Alternatives
▻https://hackernoon.com/job-search-top-linkedin-alternatives-302e9dc890fe?source=rss----3a8144ea
Launched 15 years ago, LinkedIn has emerged as the most popular social media platform for professional networking, with more than half a billion registered users from all over the world. However, while most of the features are available to users for free, one of the things that many users detest is the $59,99 subscription fee that has to be paid to make use of more advanced features of the website.People stay with LinkedIn because they don’t know about alternative solutions, but many of them started looking for other platforms to create professional connections. In case you are one of them, you should totally take a look at our list of the top LinkedIn alternatives worth checking out.XingThe German alternative to the U.S. based LinkedIn; Xing also claims to have members from all over the (...)
The Art and Science of Hacking Your Network
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-art-and-science-of-hacking-your-network-e3d8cd9b14ed?source=rss----3
Many people think #networking is just exchanging business cards and calling it a day, but at it’s core networking is really about building relationships. Humans are, by nature, social creatures and that innate instinct to be social penetrates into our professional lives. Building lasting and valuable professional relationships is just as rewarding as building personal relationships, in addition to the possibility of unique opportunities for professional growth.Everything you know about networking is probably wrong. Often believed to be merely a tool for landing a job or client, there’s more to networking than just handshaking and new Linkedin connections. Smart professionals know the value of networking skills and put those skills to good use. Business leaders use networking to develop (...)
#infographics #art-of-networking #hack-networking #hacking-your-network
The Simplest #linkedin Growth Hack
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-simplest-linkedin-growth-hack-2da0c846746c?source=rss----3a8144eabfe
LinkedIn Premium NOT requiredBy now, you may have heard of tools like LinkedHelper to help grow your LinkedIn network by sending automated invitations with personalized messages.The problem with tools like LinkedHelper is that they can result in you getting your account suspended or permanently banned from LinkedIn. The team at LinkedIn actively monitors for suspicious automated activity, so by doing so, you are playing with fire.In addition, LinkedHelper itself recommends sending no more than 100 connection requests a day to avoid being flagged. What if there was a way to send thousands of connection requests to a target demographic in just minutes?As long as you are okay with the default invitation message on LinkedIn, then open up the LinkedIn app on your phone and follow these (...)
#linkedin-marketing #linkedin-profile #growth-hacking #linkedin-free-marketing
How Addictive Online Auctions Work
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-addictive-online-auctions-work-1bd448da42b7?source=rss----3a8144eabf
Nir’s Note: This guest post was authored by Lisa Kostova Ogata, one of the first product managers at Farmville and a VP of Product at Bright.com (sold to LinkedIn). While at Zynga, Lisa learned how to shape user behavior, but in this essay she describes her surprise when she found herself unexpectedly hooked.I don’t consider myself a gambler. I’m the person who places a minimum bet at the roulette table with the specific intent of getting a free drink — after all, it’s cheaper than buying one at the bar. Yet, there I was on a Monday night, glued to my computer screen for over an hour as I watched an online #auction. I couldn’t resist.I experienced a mix of emotions as my adrenaline rushed and the clock ticked. Minutes earlier I didn’t even know the product on sale existed, but now I had to have (...)
10 Commandments for Founders
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Odysseus overcoming the Cyclops with cunning, not brute force. Entrepreneurs, take note.Reid Hoffman, CEO and founder of Linkedin, has a great podcast called “Masters of Scale”. I really liked this episode summarizing 10 core lessons that Reid has collected while doing his podcast.So here are my notes with some added links and ideas.You’ll find the episode and the full transcript here:▻https://mastersofscale.com/tim-ferriss-ten-commandments-of-startup-success/Commandment 1: Expect RejectionYou have to have tough skin. Party of surviving the ups and downs is to mentally anticipate lots of downs.In terms of raising funds, Hoffmann recommends getting squirmy “No’s” from investors. No brainer business ideas that get all those “Yes’s” mean lots of competition. In a VC partner meeting, lack of (...)
#innovation #decision-making #entrepreneurship #startup #blockchain