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The Problems with #startup #capital #fundraising…
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Our company Paperstreet is attending the #techstars Alchemist blockchain accelerator in New York City and we’ve been meeting with companies and investors day and night to discover what their ultimate pain points are, so that we may strategically position ourselves to solve problems no one else is aware of in order to give our company the best long term product market fit. In this article we’re going to discuss our strategy of finding those pain-points and what we ultimately hope to accomplish.When we refer to pain points we typically categorize them into two solution buckets: advil pains and morphine pains. What we mean by this are solutions to these pains:Advil: “I have a headache. I need to go take a nap.”Morphine: “I’m dying here please give me anything to make this pain go away.”What (...)

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Everyone in #blockchain and #cryptocurrency represented in one giant graph
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I had the fortune of getting into #consulting for Blockchain and crypto pretty early. It’s been a little more than 3 years for me working in this space.I spent my first year and a half geeking out at #bitcoin and Ethereum, reading, learning and familiarizing myself with the plethora of acronyms (PoW, PoS, DPoS, PBFT..) and other theoretical concepts, as well as getting my hands dirty with coding a handful of smart contracts. My last one and half years, however, I spent hearing people talk about their problems which Blockchain is going to solve. Yes! They already knew Blockchain is going to solve all their problems, and I just had to tell them how. From a Blockchain coder, I had turned into a Blockchain therapist.This put me in a very unique shoe. A shoe wherein, I as a technical person (...)

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Kadane’s Algorithm Explained
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Given an array, the algorithm to find the maximum subarray sum is called Kadane’s Algorithm.The array can be of any dimension. For simplicity, let’s start with a 1D array.Let’s take a 0-indexed array:arr: [5, 7, -3, 2, 9, 6, 16, 22, 21, 29, -14, 10, 12]We can start the subarray at any point. Let’s say we start at index 2 i.e., arr[2] = -3. Now, at index 3, the sum will be -3 + 2 = -1. If we started the subarray at index 3 instead, the sum at index 3 is 2, which is greater than the previous sum.So we have two choices: either start at the current index or add the current element to the previous sum.And since we want the maximum subarray sum, we add the current element to the maximum of 0 and previous sum (zero here denotes that we’re starting anew from the current element).This problem falls (...)

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How to approach any #coding problem?
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“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” — John JohnsonWhenever any coding problem is given, by basic instincts most of the people follow some predefined steps which allows them to approach that problem effectively. Knowingly or unknowingly, even you might be following some of these steps when you are given any question unconsciously, but after reading this article you will try to relate to these amazing steps and you’ll be able to solve the problem more effectively. So in this article, I am going to discuss 5 steps that you can take while solving any coding question ✨The world requires devs, why should I spend time on Competitive #programming?Being a developer myself, I found that most of the developers out there (including many “very” skilled devs), are not that good when it comes to (...)

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Want to become a Happy and Productive Programmer? Use these 5 techniques from #psychology
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How Ideas from Human Psychology can help Programmers?Do you want to program at your peak performance? Do you want to enjoy #programming job? What are the tricks to get unstuck from hard problems? How can you push your cognitive capabilities? Turning into Psychology can tell us answers.Like a hero of a movie, the programmer’s life has villains, diversions, fights, and emotions. Are you ready to become a programming hero?1. Achieve Flow StateIn the famous book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals that the secret for achieving Peak Performance is doing work in an optimal state called flow.Flow is optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and capable of performing at top level. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, (...)

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Signs you’re building the wrong product.
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Three missteps that undermine your product.It’s never been easier to build a software product – and yet, the number of seemingly great products that fail is only increasing. A side-effect of the ease of building products is that many builders, developers, and entrepreneurs are jumping the gun. We are simply not spending enough time understanding our customers needs before building a potential solution for them.If you build a great product and no one uses it, did you really build a great product?Some incredible products that I thought were amazing but didn’t stand the test of time include Mailbox, Path, and the Nike Fuel app, and probably scores of others that I don’t remember anymore. While some products may have “failed” because the team moved on to bigger challenges and others because of (...)

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Solve a problem by not working on it.
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It’s 3:30 am standing holding my daughter, my t-shirt has puke on it from the 7pm feeding.Daughter finally falls asleep I hand her off to my wife. And go to #sleep. But can’t sleep. That thing that happened earlier the day before and all those other things the week before. They crept into my head and I’m wide awake 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, all roll by and I’m wallowing in it.Crap I can’t sleep this is horrible that was horrible all of this is horrible.It’s sooo easy to keep piling on the horrible instead of just not.Just looking at it differently. Change your perspective. Be flexible. Shake things up and look at it upside down.Sure I’m not sleeping now, but I got some sleep, and the baby is asleep.Instead of wallowing in bed mourning the inability to accomplish something. Get out of bed go work out. (...)

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