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IoT platform

  5 types of IoT platforms IoT protocols Social Identity providers , when you use your convenient accounts to log into an application.  Custom Identity authorization  can be done too.

How to get into startup mode?

100m people with an idea 1m people with a landing page 100k startups with an mvp 25k startups with customers/users 10k startups with revenue sure its ‘possible’ to raise money with just an idea, but the further you get the less competition you have — domm (@domm) January 12, 2021 1.  Startup school for future founders You get to hear many entrepreneurs talk. Choose your favorite products and find out the founders stories as well as how did it evolve from the initial MVP to product stage. When you get to working about 20 hours a week on your startup, you can move to the active founders stage where you get more help. The Entrepreneurial mindset with Meetup Chairman Kevin Ryan Geoff Ralston talks 2. Be in a community of builder s Be where startup founders are. 400 hundred founders/hackers/builders are part of a new SHIPPING FRIDAY Discord: https://t.co/LDaayXPdCL People are sharing their startup ideas, discussing plans for their YC interview, asking for advice on getting ea...

Reverse index

Looking at this overloaded  page on typesense , I wanted to understand some of the terms. A  good example  of reverse index is when you have to search for 234, 235, 236. Here it makes sense to find the differeing last number sooner than the initial long, same numbers.  The time to  dynamically reconstruct inverted index  is important. Levenshtein automaton what-is-tf-idf  Term frequency - inverse document frequency. Faceted search  vs  Filtering

Discord

 What is  Discord? Nothing like the company of a person in the same throes as you. Its like a club, getting together like a tribe to solve a common problem. Should companies use this for their cutomer service before an often repeated problem solution is fed back into their SOP? Whatsapp seems to have been a good bet when the number is below few hundreds. The move to bigger space digital town halls also signals the gravity of the issue. Discord is the  anti-algo  and organized (you know where to find things you need, based on the appropriate channel). Started with gamers, moved onto influencers.

Both ends of market

  one of the *hardest things* to solve in a bottoms-up SaaS company -- how to scale the product up to bigger customers without losing the bottom of the market — Sarah Guo 🇺🇸 (@saranormous) December 15, 2020

Barber startups

 " A barbershop isn't designed to grow fast."  -  Paul Graham Zenoti  provides services to barber and hair-salon companies. "For their clients, Zenoti allows them to accept bookings, accept digital payments, handle payroll, manage backend inventory and transfer the tip from customers directly to a staff member’s bank account."  Zenoti’s platform " combines both the ERP and CRM tools."   Getsquire,  another barbershop tech startup  is a " back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses. Squire lets businesses schedule appointments, offer loyalty programs and install contactless and cashless payment." Getsquire   "claims that barbershop operations are more complex than many other types of small businesses because there are multiple parties transacting, plus customers might check out different services from different barbers all within one service." If upselling products wont cut it, resort to services. Other services yo...

Not the car business

There’s an old saying that the first fifty years of the car industry were about creating car companies and working out what cars should look like, and the second fifty years were about what happened once everyone had a car - they were about McDonalds and Walmart, suburbs and the remaking of the world around the car, for good and of course bad. The innovation in cars became everything around the car. - Benedict Evans  With Google,  What changed there was not solubility but bigness  of the web. McDonalds is not in the fast food business, its in the reality busness according to  Kent Billingsley , author of  Entrepreneur to Millionaire: How to Build a Highly Profitable, Fast-Growth Company and Become Embarrassingly Rich Doing It.

Jamstack

  Netlify   My blog now has its own search. It's powered by https://t.co/22TYOGGQuw and a static JSON file generated during deployment. I think it's better than nothing and if there's a need I still can switch to @algolia or any other technology. pic.twitter.com/ZOkxIfwwX2 — Tom Witkowski (@devgummibeer) December 14, 2020 Why do you need your own search? Drumbeat.... Enter  Algolia  with " instantaneous, multi-platform and typo-tolerant features".   Typesense  is an open-source alternative to Algolia.  What is  Jamstack

Never too early

In  How to Plan an MVP , Michael Siebel shows how Airbnb page looked in the beginning. Don't wait until perfection to launch. The first Stripe homepage looked like this. pic.twitter.com/YxBq15yuTo — Alex Garrett-Smith (@alexjgarrett) December 11, 2020   How it started: How it's going: pic.twitter.com/7vBDqhf7FZ — Calvin French-Owen (@calvinfo) October 12, 2020

Adding Stripe to your Bubble page

bubble  is a no code way of building your apps and webpages. You might have heard of low code too. Adding stripe to bubble app   shows you how to add it.  For this you will also need  Stripe testing card numbers , so that you can check that your code connects bubble to Stripe correctly. Building with React

Cashless society

Techsavvy Sweden moving to digital P27 project  to connect 27 million people with real-time, cross-country,cross-border payment in nordic. countries. Population Larger population takes time Ease, efficiency and security of transactions

How to Almost Learn Anything

  How to almost Learn Anything  class from MIT. Whats the big idea  from IBM. "As an educator and friend of children I saw new opportunities for children to understand, to love, and to use ideas that had previously been inaccessible to them" - Seymour Papert, author of  Mindstorms : Children, Computers and Powerful ideas. This idea of accessiblity is also echoed in  Russell Kirsch's  - " I guess, I’ve always believed that nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do. Most people think the opposite – that all things are withheld from them which they have conceived to do and they end up doing nothing." The Having of Wonderful Ideas When or how do kids learn conservation, transitivity and spatial coordinates? Transitional momeny in learning 1. The right question at the right time can move children to peaks in their thinking. 2. Children can raise the right question for themselves if the setting is right.

Standardization

barcode Standardisation  in car and card companies Dont forget the shipping containers. The box or the bundling. Reminds me of  Jack Haley  bundling the transportation requests like batch scheduling or the auto rickshaw waiting for enough people to fill so that he has enough margin after the ride. It is a kind of blackboxing inner contents size and raising the level of abstraction now to bigger and similar units.

Crowdsourcing

Why Crowdsourcing is the way to go Grocery stores  asked for a mechanism to speed up checking out and got barcodes. Just like startups need to find users with problems, companies broadcasting their challenges can find better solutions than asking for solutions.

Leadership

 A leader shows hope and appreciation. Appreciation in a way is the subset of hope creation, as an appreciated person feels confident and hopes for a bigger vision. Hope is also a way of changing thoughts which will reflect in actions. Shackleton  was revisited for Leadership lessons . Is  Harvard's PACE  mdoel of leadership for you? Pick, Apprise, Collect, and Elicit