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Venmo, Strava, and Why They Haven’t Been Fined €20,000,000
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A feature for Advancing Women in Product.Gordon’s new book, An American’s Guide to European #data Protection #law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is available at Amazon and other fine retailers.GDPR Article 25 mandates data protection “by design” and “by default.”“By design” means that product managers should discuss the #privacy and security of user data at every stage of the product development lifecycle. Technologies (such as pseudonymization) and principles (such as processing the least amount of data possible) should be considered, and such consideration documented.“By default” means that the default settings only process the minimum amount of data to accomplish your product’s “specific purpose.”(If you’re unfamiliar, “processing” is a broad concept that means everything you (...)

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The Female Wave in #blockchain
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There’s been a large movement of people into blockchain over the past few years, likely due to the lucrative and challenging nature of the space, perfect for professionals that want to maximize their contribution towards challenging the status quo. Helping encourage this trend to continue is important, especially in regards to attracting professional women to the space. My belief is that having the right people is key; only with the best team can you achieve your greatest goals, create the best products, and best serve your customers — and ultimately, the best teams include women.As an example, some of the very top thought leaders in blockchain are female. In fact, there are lots of exceptional women that have really made their mark on the space, ranging with anything from evangelizing (...)

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Your pitch deck isn’t an application for financial aid
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By Joseph Flaherty, Director of Content & CommunityIf you’re pitching investors, one of the easiest ways to improve your deck is swapping out blank interstitial slides, or the dull logo cover slide, with pictures of your product in use or in context.Don’t think of your deck as an application for financial aid — a series of boxes to be dutifully filled out. Instead, conceive of your slides as a movie poster designed to draw in unsure viewers, who happen to have a nearly endless supply of alternatives to consider.To that end, most decks would benefit from more pictures. Don’t overdo it, but any title slides that are largely blank are good places to show off.If you make a consumer product, and it’s for sale at the Apple Store or Whole Foods, get a picture of it on the shelf. #ProudInvestor (...)

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Lets Talk About Our Preoccupation with Identity
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The current emphasis on all things identity reflects in part the nature of our adolescent society. By adolescent society I mean a society whose psychic energy is bound up in the developmental tasks of humans aged 13 to 21. The developmental tasks of adolescents revolve around identity formation and belonging as they attempt to separate from the #family to explore multiple narratives of self as they project themselves into possible futures outside of the family unit.We humans dislike voids, vacuums, and empty spaces because they tend to be the sources of anxiety and stress, and as the teenager separates from the family they experience a void of belonging and turn to peers to fill this gap. In an ideal context of secure attachment to parents, teenagers need not choose between family and (...)

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Stripe valued at $23 billion and has no plans to IPO, says CEO
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Startup Grind Event CoverageCollision discusses globalization of payments and his growing media empireStripe CEO John Collision opening keynote at #startup Grind GlobalStartup Grind Global kicked off this morning with opening remarks by Stripe CEO John Collision in conversation with Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg Businessweek. What follows is a summary of key insights shared:Been there, done that“People tend to think online already happened and everything that’s already been figured out has already occured, but in fact in a bunch of countries, there’s a very rapid rise in digital money. The dominant behaviors and methods are changing. Ali Pay and WePay came out of nowhere and payment players are now winning the market, in China in particular. When we started out and were pitching investors in 2010, (...)

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How #gaming Could Drive #cryptocurrency and #blockchain Adoption
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Cryptocurrencies are becoming part of the growing gaming sector yet you won’t often hear the word “Bitcoin” in this contextGame developers are creating their own virtual currencies, driven by the new generations of digital-savvy gamers. Millennials or so-called Generation X are two economically active demographics with more interest in cryptocurrency than any other. They also like to play video games. In what follows, I discuss the various ways that game developers are integrating cryptocurrencies into their products.Tokenization of Game AssetsMany games now have a form of in-game currency that players can earn, buy and spend. These currencies are typically bought within the game with fiat cash or gift cards. Usually, these monetized games are offered free and game currencies and (...)

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3 Reasons why you should focus on the Font rather than the color.
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3 Reasons Why You Should Focus on the ‘Font’ of your Site.How you can attract your users with your font.Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on UnsplashLet me make this article short and simple. I have used dozens of sites, and created three. The feedback I get each time differs. I changed a lot on the CSS files, made it look colorful and classy, but something misses out every time.One day, I started changing the #fonts of the site and noticed the vast difference it made. Some sites look better when you choose a style that suits it. I will give you 3 reasons why.Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash1.People give attention to things that are NOT ordinary.Take Medium for example. It has a lot of fonts — two for the quotes, one for the heading, one for the subheadings. The difference indicates different (...)

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VCU Imagineers Use Spore Stickers to Recycle Cardboard
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Earth Hacks RecapVirginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university located in Richmond, Virginia and on Jan. 26–27, VCU Earth Hacks happened.Experimental Civics was immediately on-board with being a sponsor, hosting a design thinking workshop during the event, and providing additional support and intros! Kudos to the whole team for running an amazing event!Start of VCU Earth HacksI caught up with Sanjana Paul, one of the co-founders, to ask her why she has supported this event:Sanjana Paul“I started Earth Hacks when I noticed that the rate at which environmental problems are increasing is exponential and the rate at which solutions to these problems are progressing is linear.Having attended #hackathons in the past, I know that during these events, rapid innovation takes (...)

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Four words that could kill your #startup
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And seven sentences that can save it.By David Frankel, Managing Partner“We learned a lot.”When said to investors, this phrase is almost always a euphemism for “We’ve spent nearly all of our capital, don’t have traditional traction, but need more money.” Those four words will chill a VC’s soul — here’s what you should say if you’re running out of cash/time.“We’ve identified a specific customer”Sure, you might have flailed around in the process of finding a route to market, but now you’ve identified a specific person willing to pay. Not a category, not a company, but the individual that will write you a check.“This is what we’re going to build”You’ve lost the luxury of experimenting, growing slowly, you need to present a clear vision for the product that will turn your company around. You need to talk in terms (...)

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Should #commodities Be Tokenized?
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What Are Commodities?Commodities are in general raw materials or good that are grown or mined. The commodities market is where they can be bought and sold, such as precious metals, gold, coffee beans, oil, grains, energy etc. People have been using physical commodities all around the world throughout history as forms of representing and storing wealth. Today, with large corporates, commodities are traded on the stock exchange, with trades in the millions of dollars worth changing hands constantly.How can #blockchain #technology Benefit the Commodities Market?Blockchain-based platforms and cryptocurrencies promise to improve the way the commodity-trading industry operates, addressing issues of trust, their inefficiencies and the complexity of transactions, which typically involve (...)

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Smarter #education, Smarter AI
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We must pay more attention to artificial intelligence in the classroomPhoto by Drew Graham on UnsplashArtificial Intelligence has the potential to make us smarter, healthier and more entrepreneurial.This is one of my conclusions from evaluating healthcare start-ups for government investment. I have been doing this for over five years and it’s an excellent way to keep connected to the latest #business and technological trends.One trend that I have noticed recently is that AI-based applications have gradually started to dominate the business plan proposals that I receive. We see AI solutions in the diagnosis of patients, image analysis, drug development, clinical trials, fall detection systems, etc.So, when a student made the following observation in a class that I was teaching on business (...)

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Retail Giants like #walmart, #carrefour and Auchan Adopting #blockchain #technology
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Large retailers putting groceries on the blockchain to optimize their supply chainWhen going to the supermarket, do you ever wonder where those products you put in your trolley come from? I live in a first world country where one usually assumes all products come from honest farmers and factories.Lately, however, more and more stories surface of animals in slaughterhouses that are being treated horribly, before they are brutally killed and their meat is shipped off to meat factories for further processing. Do we actually know what type of pesticides farmers use? Are those harmful to us, human beings?Over the years, various food scandals made headlines, ranging from 700,000 contaminated eggs that flooded the supermarket shelves to a deadly milk contamination scandal in China, which (...)

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5 Questions you need to ask a #software development team before hiring them
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5 questions you need to ask a software development team before hiring themHiring a custom software development company is all about due-diligence and significant time and resource investment. In this article we will point out 5 questions that you should ask before hiring a software development team to ensure that your software project will end us being a success!Whether a business has just started out or is soaring high into the sky, software is a critical part of any business. And rest assured, if you want to run a successful business and compete with the data-driven digital world, you need software. Saying that, the next part of the process is hiring a software development team!Read more : 8 reasons why #outsourcing software development works!Unfortunately, things often do go wrong when (...)

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How To Set Up a Network Bridge for LXD Containers
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Most of our web applications run in LXD containers. Not without reason LXD is one of the most important features of #ubuntu Server for me. There are many ways to access a web application in an LXD container from outside. For example, you can use a reverse proxy to control access to the containers. Another possibility is to set up a network bridge so that the containers are in the same network as the container host (the Ubuntu server). In this article I would like to describe how to set up a network bridge for LXD containers.Network Bridge for LXD ContainersTo set up a network bridge under Ubuntu, you need to install the bridge-utils:$ apt install bridge-utilsThen you can set up the network bridge.Ubuntu 16.04Up to Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu uses ifupdown to set network connection settings. The (...)

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How To Stay Relevant in the Age of A.I.
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Knowledge isn’t power.Almost everything we know is either currently on the internet, or will be soon. If we reach a stage when every person and machine has access to the same information, what will set you apart from the pack?Your power is through connection.One way you’ll stand out is by cultivating an ability to communicate knowledge in a more compelling way than other people or machines can do it. We yearn for human connection, yet few people develop their skills in this area.Presenting and speaking and telling stories is going to have a far greater application in the future than just knowing facts.For example:1. Your CV will get you the interview, but your #communication skills land the job.The person with the best CV doesn’t always get hired. If they did we could cancel all job (...)

#public-speaking #artificial-intelligence #technology #business

How Zero Wins: Product Analysis of the Fasting Tracker
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How Zero Wins: A Product Analysis of the Fasting TrackerZero (iOS)’s simple yet effective user flow.Don’t eat anything for the next 18 hours.If you’re shocked at the absurdity of this suggestion and wouldn’t even wish it as a punishment for your worst enemy, then you probably haven’t heard of intermittent fasting.First, Some ContextIntermittent fasting (I.F. for short), is not a diet, but a pattern of eating where you cycle between periods of fasting (most commonly 16 to 18 hours a day) and non-fasting. The protocol doesn’t dictate which foods to eat, but rather when you should eat them. While it has been around informally forever, I.F. came into the mainstream in 2016, after Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on the role of autophagy (i.e. how (...)

#product-management #design #health #behavioral-science #technology

Inner Purpose and the Rectification of #technology
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With all of my interest in technology and innovation, what really makes me tick is finding ways to intertwine my love of Chassidus (Jewish mystical philosophy) with the technological tools that are rapidly evolving and shaping our lives.Despite all of our advancement and development, humans still yearn for an inner connection and purpose. So with all the information bombardment and distractions synonymous with our advancements, how do we find a path through all of the “noise?”Chassidus, the mystical populist movement jumpstarted by the Baal Shem Tov in the early 18th Century among Eastern European Jewry teaches that everything in Creation can be uplifted for a higher purpose. From eating to entertainment, are not really mundane tools, but rather vehicles for a Divine purpose. The (...)

#whatsapp #technology-rectification #google #messaging

Is #facebook now (also) a #blockchain company ?
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The company has hired most of the team at a London-based smart contract startup.Facebook has had a blockchain group since about a year ago, when veteran Facebook executive and former PayPal president David Marcus was tapped to lead the company’s efforts in the space. Now, they have made their first big move into the blockchain and #crypto market by quietly hiring most of the team behind Chainspace, a smart contract platform registered in Gibraltar with offices in London.Chainspace, founded last year by researchers in London, uses smart contracts to offer extensibility, rather than catering to specific applications such as Bitcoin for a currency, or certificate transparency for certificate verification. Unlike Ethereum, Chainspace’s sharded architecture allows for a ledger linearly scalable (...)

#social-media #technology

Can’t Be Evil vs. Don’t Be Evil
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Don’t be evil: a cute slogan. Now a rescinded promise.Can’t be evil: a model for future organizations and business.Companies will transition from trusted terms of service to establishing contractual agreements of service digitally. Proving an immutable level of service will be the new norm and a unique selling point across consumer and enterprise software.Users have had enough of broken #privacy and broken products. #tech companies have painted themselves into a dangerous corner with free software and ad supported models. Growth at any cost, a model backed by many VCs and startups is often at odds with users’ interests. This has led several entrepreneurs to put can’t be evil at the focal point of their efforts as far back as 2014. Major points of Internet failure were illuminated by Muneeb (...)

#blockchain #technology #data

#blockchain #adoption Could Be Closer Than We Think
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What does it mean when we say blockchain adoption? In 2017, it was all about how initial-coin-offering could disrupt the traditional means financing or fundraising. Couple that with astronomical growth in all major cryptocurrencies, everyone was over the moon with their investments in this coin and that coin.Then came 2018, the year that has been dubbed Crypto Winter. There were panic, tears and disgusts raging in both the retail camp and institutions. It was apparent on social media. Anyone who had invested in late 2017, would be underwater in their investments. As quickly as it came, the hype was gone and talks of getting rich from Crypto died (or rather postponed).The focus shifted from making money to the adoption of the underlying #technology: Blockchain. In 2017/early 2018, any (...)

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Low prices cause redistribution of hash rate.
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Low Prices Can Cause Redistribution of The Hash RateThe vast portion of mining power is sourced from China.The recent slump in coin prices has led to concerns over the feasibility of mining operations. However, mining operations are still profitable in some parts of the world; the lower Bitcoin price is making way for diversification in the mining industry by enabling the growth of farms in countries with electricity prices that are lower than the energy costs in China.While a few Chinese mining facilities have been able to lock direct deals with power providers, thereby giving them access to discounted energy supplies, the average kWh rate in China stands at $0.08. Bitcoin’s current difficulty makes it difficult for most major miners, including those in China, to break-even on operating (...)

#decentralization #hash-rate #cryptocurrency #blockchain #technology

This is The CEO’s Most Important Job
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Jeff Seibert, co-founder of DigitsOver the past decade, I have founded and exited two companies — Increo and Crashlytics — and then stayed on to build large teams at the acquirers — Box and Twitter.By Jeff Seibert, co-founder of Digits, co-founder and former CEO of Crashlytics.Most people have a certain image in their minds when they think of a founder/CEO.They picture the boss in the corner office, standing behind her desk, gazing out over the city. They imagine someone calling all the shots, and everyone relying on their insight and wisdom — a visionary who is never wrong. They fear being grilled, berated, and guilted into working long hours — inevitable top-down command-and-control.When #startup founders take this approach today, they fail.In my experience, this couldn’t be further from the true (...)

#leadership-development #leadership #entrepreneurship #technology

Why are so many coders musicians?
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Long-term commitment.Part 1 of 3Photo by Luca Bravo (unsplash.com)I am currently at the beginning of my career as a developer. I came in ‘through the back door’ so to speak. I’ve been a musician my whole life, and it was through my interest in building #music tools that I got into software.Going from music to code was a gradual transition. It took me some time to make the decision because of my fear of alienation. I didn’t want to turn into a cubicule zombie, typing mindlessly into a computer all day long, detaching from life and art. I have had a couple of corporate jobs before and couldn’t take it. For the creative type, alienated work sucks the marrow out of life. Musicians need creative expression in their work and have low tolerance towards soul crushing jobs.Even though coding implies (...)

#software-development #programming #technology #learning

The Problem of Unrealistic Expectations: Really, Did You Think That Was Possible?
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Part of 10 reasons why Software Development projects fail series.One of the biggest problems in the software development cycle involves unrealistic expectations. The problem is not that management is expecting you to work too hard or too fast — it’s that they are expecting you to integrate features or functionality that might be unreasonable, impractical, or flat-out impossible.Even worse, these feature requests often come at the last minute. At the very moment when a software project is starting to head down the final stretch towards the much-anticipated finish line, along comes a request straight out of the blue. The reality is that adding in a last-minute change is sometimes just not reasonable given your timeline.And, quite frankly, if the request is coming from sales or marketing, (...)

#startup #software-development #mobile-app-development #product-management #technology

Why #blockchain Differs from Traditional Technology Life Cycles
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Why another bubble is likely and what the blockchain space should focus on nowIn the aftermath of the 2001 internet bubble, Carlota Perez published her influential book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. This seminal work provides a framework for how new technologies create both opportunity and turmoil in society. I originally learned about Perez’s work through venture capitalist Fred Wilson, who credits it as a key intellectual underpinning of his investment theses.In the wake of the 2018 ICO bubble and with the purported potential of blockchain, many people have drawn parallels to the 2001 bubble. I recently reread Perez’s work to think through if there are any lessons for the world of blockchain, and to understand the parallels and differences between then and now. As (...)

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