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The development of native mobile applications VS cross-platform
By: Ketan Parmar
Tags: Native App Development, Cross Platform Mobile App, Flutter App Development

The mobile has completely changed our lives, from the homes we order and have our purchases delivered at your fingertips. Every day new mobile solutions are emerging, if you are here it is simply because you want to develop your mobile application.

What is a native mobile application?

Precisely, to produce a mobile application, we need to go back to the tools provided by Apple and Google.

Apple provides Xcode with the COCOA TOUCH API, it recommends the Swift language for the development of native iOS mobile applications, the objective-c language is still relevant today but is less and less pushed by the official documentation.

Google for its part, provides the Android API under Android Studio and gives us the possibility of producing native android applications with either Java or Kotlin.

So to summarize, we call native application, any mobile application produced directly by the tools of the supplier of the operating system Android or iOS, respectively Google or Apple.

What is a lacrosse-platform mobile application?

If the development of native applications requires the writing of two source codes, each with the programming language that the operating system understands, the development of mobile apps in cross-platform, requires only one source code, the latter will be translated or interpreted differently under each iOS or Android operating system.

There are two models of cross-platform mobile applications:

Cross-platform hybrid mobile applications:

This model is based on the web browser of the operating system, since all browsers understand the languages ​​HTML / CSS and javascript, it suffices to produce responsive web applications and embed them in a webview within a host mobile application to be able to result in two mobile applications, one for iOS and another for Android with the same source code.

Fun fact:

the name hybrid comes from the fact that we use tools from both worlds:

the world of web applications to create the user interface with quality code.

As well as those from the world of native applications to invoke the native features of the phone.

The two major hybrid cross-platform technologies are PhoneGap and Ionic.

Native cross-platform mobile applications:

The SDKs allowing the development of native mobile applications in cross-platform are SDKs allowing the use of a single programming language to establish the user interface but with a major difference to the cross-platform hybrid, it is that these SDK translate the code written with the language of each platform so that at the end of it, we arrive with a user interface built with native elements, the same that we would see if the application was developed with the tools provided by both platforms iOS or Android.
Blog Application — Flutter — Part II
By: Pradyot Prakash
Tags: Flutter App Development, Flutter, Blog App

Go to the Previous Part to know how to set-up your VCS.

Welcome to the Second Part.

We will be looking at how to set up your project with Lint rules. Adding few packages. And also creating the file structure which we will be using for this project.

So let’s get started.

Step 1

Let’s add the analysis_options.yaml file in our project which will handle all the lint rules for Dart in our project. This will help us in making our project by following the dart guidelines. This will be added in the same directory where pubspec.yaml is added.

After adding the file you will see some warnings in the analysis_options.yaml. Don’t worry about that we need to add one package to it.

Go to this commit to see the changes needed when you add the analysis_options.yaml file.

To see the list of rules can go here. There are a lot of rules but we are only following the selective ones.

Step 2

Now let see which and all packages will be required to make this application.

First of all, we will be needing a package which will help us in managing the state of your application. I will be using GetX for that.

On why to use GetX can go here.

Now, we need a log printer that will log the required details in the console and it has to be formatted properly. So let’s add a logger package for it. We would also need internet_connection_checker and intl to perform basic utility checks like internet and text direction for the locale.

So below is the list of packages that we will be using for our project (will be updated as we move forward):

So, now you have the set of packages that we will be using for your project.

Check here to see the commits for this step.

Step 3

Now let’s start structuring our folders for this project. We will be using the Clean Architecture format to set up our project. To know how to set up the folders clearly and what’s the meaning of each folder can go to https://pradyotprksh4.medium.com/clean-architecture-flutter-f1baf4956be8 here.

For now, I haven’t added the data and device layer. Will be adding it as we move forward. For this project, the data layer would not be required because the Firebase package will handle the remote layer changes.

The device layer will be adding in the future to allow users for changing the theme and language of the application. So it will be in TODO.

So, for this step can go to this link which will show you the commit.

So by now, you will have a folder structure and your initial application structure. For this part, this much will be enough. We will move to the next part and there we will set up our GitHub action and will also set up the local storage for saving application-related details.
The smart way to handle routes in Flutter
By: Imran Sk
Tags: Flutter, Flutter Ui, Flutter Navigation, Named Route, Flutter App Development

Number one, make a constant file that keeps all the constant names of your Screen pages. See the image below I have four screens, I make a file that the name is routing_constants.dart. where declared my all-pages constant name.

Constant file

Number Two, Make another file that name is the router.dart, Where I put a function that name is generateRouter(), That return type is Route Dynamic. And also pass a parameter that type is RouteSettings see the image below.

Route type function

Now write your condition to route the screen see the below image

Route condition

Here i import a routing_constants.dart file. Look, here I create another page name ErrorPage(). If my condition didn’t get any match then it routes to ErrorPage(), Which's a simple Error handle from UI.

Number Three, Now config the function in MaterialApp look the below image

Here i imported router.dart file as router then look the MaterialApp take three parameters here, first one debugShowCheckedModeBanner I’m not talking about it. then onGenerateRoute take the router function that we created before in router.dart file. Then initialRoute take the first screen that we want to show here i import the SplashScreenRoute that i create a constant variable in routing_constants.dart.

Now The important thing is how we generate the route after the user action link button pressed. See below to Route a screen. Here RouteName is that we declaure in routing_constants.dart

Navigator.pushNamed(context, RouteName);



Another one is sometimes we need to route screen and also need to clear back stack that time we need to use

Navigator.pushReplacementNamed(context, RouteName);

That’s for Today.

Thank you.
Flutter 2.5: What changes does it bring?
By: Motabar Javaid
Tags: Development, Flutter, Programming, Flutter App Development, Dart

Framework Changes:

Android FullScreen Mode:

Starting off with the change related to Android Full Screen mode. Now we can have more control over the Full Screen modes in our app. Flutter 2.5 comes with three new modes: lean back, sticky, sticky immersive, and edge to edge.

The developers have more control over how when the user interacts with the app, they can return to fullscreen or do something else.

New Android edge-to-edge mode: normal mode (left), Edge to Edge mode (center), Edge to Edge with a custom SystemUIOverlayStyle (right)

Floating Action Button (FAB) Sizes:

With the new update, Sizing the Floating Action Button(FAB) is a lot easier now.

Floating Action Btton sizes

Material Banner:

Another good addition to the is the Material Banner which lets the developers to add the functionality of a banner at the top of Scaffold that sticks to its place until the use dismisses it from view.

Material Banner

Let’s see how we can have implement this behavior of Banners in our apps.

More changes include the ones to theming which are now Material You based and the addition of new MaterialState.scrollUnder state that you can see below:

MaterialState.scrolledUnder state in action

One more change worth talking about here is the improvement on the scroll metrics notifications which now provides notifications of scrollable areas when the UI is not being scrolled. One application of that would be the example below which shows or hides scrollbar based on underlying size of the ListView. An the best part about it that you don’t even have to write any extra code to get this behavior in your apps.

Scroll Metrics notification allowing the scrollbar to show or hide without scrolling

VSCode Improvements:

Dependencies:

It becomes tedious to add packages from pub.dev into your project if the list is a long one.Pubspec assist made it easier to add packages but now you don’t even need it as it comes built in with the Flutter plugin for VS Code.

Adding a Dart dependency in Visual Studio Code

Fix All:

We’ve been there when we refactor our code and have to manually add the dependencies for everything that is being used in our code. Worry no more! Fix All got you covered. Use the Fix All command and it fixes all the known dependencies related issues in your code like magic. 🔮

Using Flutter Fix rules to fix all known issues in your code

Mind that the command can be made to run on on-save by adding sources.fixAll to the editor.codeActionsOnSave Setting in VS Code.
Three Pillars of Great Product Growth
By: Amit Aggarwal
Tags: Enterpreneurship, Startup, Product Management

Most of the time when I do the planning, what should we offer next to our customers, I find myself these three most important pillars of product growth really useful.

Finding the underserved customer segments Finding the unmet needs of customer segments Finding the blue ocean needs of a customer segment

Finding the underserved customer segments refers to the segment of the customers who are unsatisfied with your current offering because of the complexity involved in the way they use your product — Usually, to serve this segment we need to modify the offering of the original product.

For example

Customers who want to search for images on Google — say for the search query “Bill gates” — customers in this segment are expecting images of Bill Gates, not the images wherein the web pages contain “bill gates”. So to serve customers in this segment #Google came up with images.google.com search as a modified offering of the original product Scholars who want to search for research papers related to the particular search query like “COVID 19” — customers in this segment are looking for research papers around “COVID 19” but not general information available in the domain. So #Google came up with scholar.google.com as the modified offering of the original product #Gmail for business is another example of serving the underserved customer segment.

Finding the unmet needs of a customer segment refers to the segment of customers who are unsatisfied because your current offering is missing features that helps the customer to get the job done much more accurately and quickly. Usually to serve this segment we need to add a few features in the product.

For example — Sometimes when we search on #Google, the same website link pops up in the top results which we have already visited. Sometime back, Google has added a feature where it marks already visited links in “dark blue color” which makes it easy for us to make a decision whether to visit or not the website again.

Finding the blue ocean needs of a customer segment refers to finding what are the other jobs a customer is doing using other solutions in the market. Usually, we need to create a separate offering to serve customer needs in this segment

For example — The primary business of #MakeMyTrip is to book flight tickets, however, along with it they introduce another offering of “Hotel booking” because they know customers who are booking “tickets” may also looking for “hotel booking”.

In this, we create a bundle of products that helps the customer get the complete job done on the same platform.

So next time when you thinking of what you should offer to your customers then think it from from the angle of finding the customer segments which have unmet needs, underserved segments and blue ocean needs of the customer segment
Why we invested in Spatial. We are excited to announce our recent…
By: Fang Yuan
Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise Technology, Fundraising, Startup, Augmented Reality

We are excited to announce our recent investment in Spatial, which is advancing the world of augmented reality (AR) collaboration.

Tools for collaborative team communications have evolved from face to face to telegraph to phones and mostly recently onto digital mediums such as email, video conferencing, and messaging. However, what hasn’t been solved is the seamless merging of a real-life like experience with digital space.

For anyone who has tried to stay engaged using a 2-D, flat video conferencing system, you’ll know immediately what I mean. In contrast, Spatial is leading us into a truly global and immersive collaborative workspace era, one that will enable disconnected teams to build trust and work better together. With Spatial, you’ll feel as if a colleague who is physically thousands of miles away is simply right there in front of you. Mattel, Nestlé, BNP Paribas, and other Spatial customers agree.

Geographic distance and flight costs shouldn’t prevent your design and manufacturing teams from getting in sync until it’s too late. Globally distributed team members can now collaborate in virtual rooms that can ingest pictures, videos, 3D models from existing project folders or online; quickly enter, set up, customize, or tear down a virtual meeting room as needed from any headset, PC or phone, faster than what you’d be able to do in the real world. Location no longer needs to be a constraint in building great teams.

But we believe the opportunity is even bigger than simply replacing video calls or allowing for virtual collaboration. Spatial has created rich, interactive 3D environments that truly augment reality by allowing exploration that would be impossible in the physical world. In other words, Spatial is allowing for new types of machine-assisted collaboration that make reality even better than being in the same room, let alone being across distances. Over time, as glasses become lighter and better, Spatial can start supporting teams working together continuously throughout the day.

As hardware headsets become ubiquitous, more powerful, and more seamless, the value add will accrue to those who create the strongest applications on top of such distributed tools. We believe that Spatial is superbly positioned to dominate the sector of AR collaboration and we are excited to be on this journey with them!
February Accelerator All Access: Home Care On-Demand, Game Development, Early Cancer Detection & More
By: Capital Factory
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Cancer, Game Development, News, Startup

Skylark Wireless

Skylark Wireless is a wireless networking hardware startup. They design and manufacture custom Massive MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) radio solutions addressing the needs of the rural broadband market.

Listing Village

The team at Listing Village provides realtors with their own marketing website platform. They can help you build your own custom website, mobile map, and personal branding on your terms.

GoDemics

GoDemics is a full-cycle production house that provides services for enterprise solutions and game development. They develop games, apps, and experiences that utilize Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, Gear VR, and much more.

Phylomics

Phylomics is democratizing access to the next-generation of life-saving cancer screening based on their innovative metabolomics platform. They provide early detection of multiple cancers in asymptomatic patients, when treatment is most effective.

CareSnap

CareSnap connects patients and caregivers for on-demand home care services with their dual-app software. They alleviate home care agency pain points by providing simplicity and accessibility right from your phone.

Salesboost

Salesboost is a new training program for the hospitality industry. Their performance-based, robust training solution provides a comprehensive curriculum designed to boost sales for hotel sales professionals.
3 Reasons to Raise Outside Capital
By: David Evans
Tags: Fundraising, Startup, Venture Capital

Equity is the most expensive way to fund a business. In the success case, a healthy chunk of the company has disappeared. In the failure case, the founders have forfeited their time. To make matters worse, at the earliest stages, only a tiny handful of companies get funded. In 2019, only 4556 companies received Angel and Seed funding according to Pitchbook. Despite these challenges, there are cases where outside capital is a necessity for a startup. Companies that fit one of these 3 categories will need raise money at some point to be successful:

1) To survive the sales cycle — When selling to enterprise customers, the sales cycle can last over 12 months and span 6 different decision makers. In an environment like this, a company must have the sales, product, and customer support staff to operate during that time period with little earned revenue. There is still a revenue flywheel, but there is a substantially delayed reaction to the push. Impact of time and money invested now don’t create results for over a year. And even once the sale materializes, to continue to grow, the company will have to weather ongoing cycles of delayed return on investment. In this case, capital is necessary to bridge the company from sale initiation to revenue.

2) To solve a hard problem — Recently, nine-year-old company Blaize emerged from stealth with an announcement of several rounds of funding totaling nearly $100 million. The company, which makes chips specifically designed to run AI workloads, is creating a whole new approach to computational processing. A product like this can’t be created in nights and weekends. It takes a large investment of time and resources to design a solution. Even Intel launched with $2.5 million of venture funding, which is over $15 million in 2019 dollars. If the problem or process is complex enough, it will take a substantial amount of capital to get to market.

3) To scale faster than competition — Growth equity, unlike Seed or Angel investment, is about scale. Investors are backing a proven team with established metrics that can use capital as an accelerant to their already winning formula. In a theoretical example, if a company has a customer acquisition cost (CAC) of $100, adding $100,000 in capital should allow the company to add another 1,000 customers. The fundamental problem is that customers are a finite resource, and every company has competitors. Growth capital can be a tool to capture market share before the competition.

In each of these cases, raising capital has a clear purpose and is not the starting point of discussion. Not every business needs to fit one of these 3 patterns to raise capital. For example, under-represented founders just don’t have the same access to “friends and family” capital to get off the ground. External equity is an option that should provide more leverage, not just eat away at ownership of the company. To ensure that capital is actually a tool, make sure that it fits one of these criteria.
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Tags: Mental Health, Self Improvement, Social Media, Marketing, Startup

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Review On How Startups Can Get Top Talent | Startup City Magazine
By: Jack Mathew
Tags: Talent, Magazine, Technology, Startup, Review

Review On How Startups Can Get Top Talent | Startup City Magazine jack Mathew Jul 6·2 min read

Source — Startup City Magazine

startup city magazine review

Startup city magazine review on How Startups Can Get Top Talent? job interview is that the most vital step in any employment process. it’s critical to rent cautiously so as to know the candidate’s skills and the way they applied those skills to their advantage.

Fremont, CA : the amount of startups is increasing as a results of technological improvement. There are gigantic corporate bodies that dominate every industry. Despite this, alittle fraction of companies succeeds in defying the chances and becoming household names. Clearly, people are gradually adapting to the startup ecosystem, and more individuals than ever are wanting to invest their time and money in it. actually , new talent prefers to figure during a startup since it provides a good range of opportunities for learning and expanding their skills.

Original Article — How Startups Can Get Top Talent

How to Attract the proper Pool of Talent For Your StartUp

Building a robust Media Presence

People sleep in an internet-driven era, and one among the primary things any applicant will do is search one’s brand’s social media profile. One must maintain a lively social media presence across several platforms and spread the word about one’s company.

Social media may be a forum for showcasing a company’s culture and values. One may show them what it’s wish to work for your company. One can share movies about one’s everyday workplace activities, weekend activities, or the present significant project one’s team is functioning on. Nothing beats a high level of social media visibility. Utilize the internet’s potential to seek out the perfect applicant.

Proper employment interview

The job interview is that the most vital step in any employment process. it’s critical to rent cautiously so as to know the candidate’s skills and the way they applied those skills to their advantage. Companies nowadays utilize applicant tracking systems (ATS) to get the simplest candidates for his or her open positions. It examines the resumes and selects the one that best meets the company’s skill set requirement. then , question them about their previous experiences, their difficult time and the way they handled the circumstance, and other topics. This way, one will learn more about the applicant and be ready to determine whether or not the person is capable of doing the work .
Magical things we designed in the past year at Hike
By: Vishant Kumar
Tags: Rush, Hikeland, Vibe, Hike, Startup

1. Hikeland — A magical place to hangout online.

One of the first things that I worked at Hike was Hikeland. It was a very interesting problem that we wanted to solve. Hike has always been a place for your closest friendships. If there was a mission statement we’d have, it would be → Great Relationships = Happy People.

The dream with HikeLand was to build a magical place online where great friendships can thrive over shared experiences. A virtual world where people can hangout online, be their most expressive selves and transcend the limitations of the offline world.

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 & 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 were our 2 unique experiences

We imagined Home with different themes(8) for people to hangout in a virtual world. It was a private place for you and your loved ones to hang out. Home is your living room with a TV(powered by Youtube & Disney+Hotstar), with Voice Calling + Video Streaming, you can finally Watch & Talk at the same time.

Home Experience

Next up Big Screen, just like in life, we want to build opportunities for people to meet other people in a fun way. So, we’ve built ‘Big Screen’ to start with — a place that brings people together around the content they love. Big Screen was running 24x7 around Movies, Music, Comedy, Sports, and much more. Hop into a show anytime, hangout, watch videos with other like-minded people and even say hello to them!

Big Screen Experience

Here was our Profile & Chat Experience, This was our take on online privacy & our way of redefining it.

Profile & Chat Experience

To bring it all together, we had to ask — Where is HikeLand? Is it on Earth? Is it in Space? Is it another Planet? We think it’s best described as another realm. A new environment altogether built solely from imagination. Our experiences are “Floating Islands” in HikeLand. They may remind you of Avatar’s Mountains of Pandora, or the Floating City in Star Wars (we’re big on sci-fi Hike) In the boundless expanse of HikeLand, soon, it won’t be just our creativity, it will be yours too.

Floating Islands — Hikeland (Day & Night View)

The most important shift we wanted to make from the social experiences of today is to create a place that doesn’t force any parameter of success such as likes, comments, shares. HikeLand was a place for you to create wonderful friendships.

Click on the video to get a feel of the Hikeland experience👇🏻

Hikeland — A magical place to hangout

This was an early preview experience or in other words, you can call it MVP as well. So as time passed our understanding of the product kept on increasing.
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By: The Startup
Tags: Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Startup, Business

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The State of Life Science Innovation: Navigating Threats to Growth
By: New England Venture Capital Association
Tags: Policy, Biotechnology, Startup, Pharmaceutical, Venture Capital

From left to right: Jody Rose, Johannes Fruehauf, Marian Nakada, Sara Nayeem,

This week, the NEVCA co-hosted a one-of-a-kind event on Thursday June 13th with Incubate Coalition and WeWork for Health Massachusetts that offered interdisciplinary insights on the current landscape biotech innovators and investors are facing. The first panel, moderated by NEVCA president Jody Rose, dove into the challenges facing life science startups. With perspectives from the side of the investor and the researcher, we got to hear about the different attributes investors look for in a company when choosing to invest.

Featured speaker Peter Kolchinsky, managing partner at RA Capital and author of The Biotech Social Contract series, dove into an overview of prescription drug pricing. The second panel of the day turned the focus towards policy, with the lineup including Rhode Island’s Secretary of Commerce Stefan Pryor and former member of Congress Erik Paulsen. Check out some of the highlights of the day!
Wunderlist is almost dead!
By: Francesco D'Alessio
Tags: Productivity, Microsoft, Apps, Startup, Software

The next 6 months might see the demise of Wunderlist. Officially!

Microsoft To-Do, the application “replacing” Wunderlist has now released their Mac application and with this step-up in development from the team, I think it’s safe to say the end is nigh for Wunderlist and it’s story.

☠ ️So, What Will Happen to Wunderlist?

Wunderlist is still usable on all platforms right now.

But for how much longer?! Chances are Microsoft will press the magic switch off button on Wunderlist in the next 6 months now that their To-Do application is available on all devices — iOS, Android, Mac, Windows & Web.

Many people won’t like this.

Agreed, but for Microsoft, it’s the next logical step. Despite Wunderlist having 10M+ users worldwide (logged back in 2013) the platform wouldn’t be worth having around for the sake of everyday users like this.

Bets are that Microsoft aggressively drives Wunderlist users over the To-Do platform in a hard switch date that will see the shutdown of Wunderlist and the title replacement of To-Do.

🗑 ️To-Do Doesn’t Suck Anymore!

The good news, is that To-Do doesn’t suck anymore.

Very much like Google Tasks, on launch, Microsoft To-Do lacked features. A rushed released in my eyes saw no sub-tasks, only mobile roll-out and no robust task manager that shouted “download me!”.

Now, To-Do with it’s Planner Integration, File Attachments, New Mac app and more, shouts “I’m a good, easy to use lightweight to-do list app”.

💸Will Todoist & TickTick Benefit?

Of course they will, I can see a big push for both applications to bring Wunderlist users onboard.

Wunderlist was a fairly robust application, but suited the lightweight category well, for those looking at Wunderlist alternatives, many will move to Todoist and TickTick thanks to the familiarity of features.
Why Blockchain Will Kill Facebook.
Tags: Decentralized Finance, Blockchain, Facebook, Cryptocurrency, Startup

Blockchain social media will free us from tech monopolies.

After the Capitol riots on January 6th, and former president Donald Trump voicing his tacit approval of the matter, he was banned from Twitter and soon thereafter most other websites. Let that sink in, even the most powerful person on the planet is subject to the whims of big-tech and this is an increasing concern.

Then, when there were rumors that he might go to a competing platform, they were throttled by their hosting systems, threatened by advertisers, etc. Regardless of what you feel about the man, he was still a democratically elected leader of a world superpower at the time. If he can essentially be wiped out of the internet instantly, then us normal people are far from immune in regards to this.

Even from a market competition standpoint and maintaining a healthy economy, it’s become evidently clear that we need alternative social media sites. The problem though is that the alternatives tend to just be a bad clone with less functionality, or they’re still fundamentally the same creatures, which just haven’t had the chance to grow and influence the market.

We need an alternative, a real one. One where we users are in charge of our experience and our data. Whichever side of the political spectrum that you are in, we need a fundamental reframing of social media so as to prioritize the interests of the users, instead of big tech, which will merely try to protect the status quo that has enabled them to gain their monopoly.

One such alternative is to structure social media via a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). These are blockchain entities that allow their constituent members to have full control over the data they share. Furthermore, they can be managed in a decentralized manner, and are thus much less likely to succumb to censorship and peer pressure from big tech platforms.

The future of blockchain, and indeed of the internet in general, might increasingly no longer be dependent on the desires of monolithic companies that control everything. Instead, in this era of hyper-segmentation, we might see that we can recover some of that lost sense of community and restructure our society to see value in the user again, instead of treating them as endlessly disposable.
How to share an open job on LinkedIn
By: Tali Rapaport
Tags: Hiring, Recruiting, Employer Branding, Startup, Recruitment Marketing

From doom scrolling layoffs during the pandemic to the good news about a colleague’s promotion, Linkedin is helpful. However, being familiar with it, there is still a mystery to making it work.

If you are trying to fill an open role, and particularly for a hard-to-fill open role, LinkedIn can move the needle. But it doesn’t come with a set of instructions on what to do, particularly if you don’t want to rely on paid advertising and an algorithm out of your control. There are 3 key things to consider to get a successful Linkedin post. (source)

LinkedIn post of job clip thumbnail with tags

1. LinkedIn needs content

Unlike other social networks, LinkedIn doesn’t have enough content. Because LinkedIn content reaches people’s professional networks, people have less to say. That means each piece of content you publish has the potential to go far on Linkedin because they need it to fill the feed. This means there is more upside to getting it right. Because if you do, Linkedin will get your content in front of many people.

2. Engagement in the first hour

Second, like other social networks, LinkedIn promotes content that gets higher engagement. This means Linkedin looks for early signals that your post is grabbing the attention of your connections. Specifically, they look at your post in the first hour. If people who you have tagged go on to comment on the post, that tells LinkedIn that it’s likely engaging content that people are going to want to see. And as a result, they will distribute it further. LinkedIn’s golden hour for grading content is the first hour after you publish (and your post passes their spam review). So, you want to maximize engagement immediately for something you’ve shared. You want people to comment because that tells LinkedIn that people thought it was important enough to respond.

3. Meaningful content

Finally, people are coming to LinkedIn to invest in their careers in some way. That means they are not expecting 15-second music videos from their neighborhood cat. As a result, they are expecting thoughtful posts, which are often longer. There is minimal credit given to zingy one-liner posts, and particularly things that are irrelevant. This means irrelevant images or low-quality posts tell LinkedIn that your post is not one it should distribute. It is far better to take the time to do a good job and repeat it weekly, than to do 1 poor post that goes ignored.

Try out job clips

Job clips are one way to do this. Job clips guide you through creating a 30–60 second audio clip talking to your open roles.

Fill out your script like a madlib

Take 15 minutes to create a great job clip, and watch your employer brand grow. But, job clips aren’t the only way. You can also post a video or publish images. What’s important is to tell your employer's story, and find your people.
Inside APX: How AI captures spoken word and improves podcast search
By: Porsche Digital
Tags: Voice Recognition, Audio, Start Ups, Artificial Intelligence, Podcast

Porsche is expanding its digital ecosystem with its accelerator program and very early-stage investor, APX. The aim is to find promising and innovative business models and bring about successful collaborations. This is why the search for early-stage companies and founders is particularly important.

One of these companies is Tucan founded by Michael Schramm, Lukas Rintelen and Florian Polak. The original business model was a new type of podcast platform called “RecTag”, which the founding team still runs today. RecTag’s goal is to make it easier for podcasters to be found and heard. Conversely, listeners can discover stories and people based on the actual content of the podcast and not just the title or description of the episode. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind this idea enables content-based search beyond the typical podcast charts.

A lot has changed since then, even the core product. The AI used there gave rise to a new idea that the team is now focusing on. The software makes it possible to analyze and transcribe spoken conversations in a short time. The user can receive automatic transcripts, summaries, and notes within minutes and can focus their attention on the conversation. The automatic speaker analysis makes it possible to recognize all participants in the conversation and shows who spoke about what topic and to what extent. Unlike common solutions, Tucan trains a separate speech model for each user. Over time, this enables error-free, automatic transcriptions. On top of that, Tucan was specially developed for local accents and dialects.

Joint podcast with Porsche: Driven Minds
How a creative genius observes the world
By: Bhavik Kasundra
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Love, Startup, Life

‘Everyone has a beauty, but not everyone sees it’ — Confucius.

Leonardo da vinci

You have probably seen spiderwebs, stripes zebras, feathers of the Peacock, lines on squirrel, various types of leaves on trees, Colors of soap bubbles while bathing, folding of petals in flowers, and the list goes on.

They all reflect some selective patterns and the joyful beauty of nature. They reflect patterns of the universe. Some of the patterns are discovered by great people, and there is profound research going on for discovering them.

But did you ever closely observe them? Did you ever ask yourself why it all happens in that particular way only? What principle it reflects? If you also feel curious, then you probably have traits of genius. In fact, all people have superpowers, but they lose them over time. Everyone has the opportunity to act in an extraordinary way.

When I was a kid, I was always in a state of wonder, and everything looks weird; for example, Peacock reflects so many colors and enormous color patterns on its feathers, and at the same time, humans have only one color on the body. I felt pretty weird at the time but gently, as time goes on, children become grown-ups, and grown-ups feel shy to ask and think about such weird things; instead, they accept it as it is and signals the brain to stop questioning. And later, they lose their superpower called questioning and observing without concluding. So, I decided to create some awareness about “observing without concluding.”

‘If you can observe alertly, keenly, nut without judging, without concluding, you will find that your thinking becomes astonishingly acute. Then you are learning all the time.’ — Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Children are the greatest gift from God, and they have an infinite well of curiosity and an empty cup of knowledge. Always respect their questions because if you allow your children to see in every way possible, you are cultivating a genius.

Photo by Ricky Turner on Unsplash

Here, my point is that wherever you are, whoever stops questioning and doesn’t jump to conclusions at first sight.

Next moment takes a deep breath and start observing nature around you. Listen to those birds, stare at the infinite universe just above your mind. You will find many ways to live joyfully just by staying aware.

Happy journey, friend!
Evan Spiegel: The Billionaire Who Can Admit It Wasn’t All Hard work
By: Amardeep Parmar
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Self, Money, Startup, Business

What you can do

You can’t change the lottery of your birth. Yet you can make use of your unique traits and abilities even if they aren’t as obviously beneficial as Spiegel’s. You must have some advantages over those most unlucky in the world to be able to read this.

Be the same

The movie cliche is where businessmen go to the golf course to get their deals signed. The common hobby gives them time away from the traditional working environment to forge stronger bonds.

We tend to like people who are like us and research backs this up. You might not have the same financial status as the gatekeepers but you could share other traits. For example, entrepreneurship is booming in British Asians and I know they are inclined to give me a shot when others might not.

Be different

This may seem like a contradiction but the important thing is not being ambiguous. If you can’t be memorable for your similarities, you could be for your differences instead.

When people hang around with others like them all the time, it can become stale. Shake things up and introduce something new and exciting. Many people I meet have never seen the style of dance I do so it’s easy to stand out. The people who are at the top often get there in part because of their curiosity.

Feed it.

Be a connector

Rosa Parks wasn’t the first woman to refuse to give up her seat in protest at the ridiculous racist rules of her time. Yet her story went viral because she was a connector. She had strong bonds with people from different backgrounds and could bring them together in unison.

If you’re already established in one area, use this to your advantage. Be the person who can speak the languages of both sides and you gain a unique edge. You’re able to offer the system in one field access to the system in another.

I am a relative novice at podcasting but I am established in the writing world. It’s not uncommon for podcasters to wish to talk to me because they want my insights into writing. This gives me access to people who I’d have no chance at otherwise.
Pharmaceutical Cartridges Market Size Worth $1.83 Billion By 2026
By: Gaurav Shah
Tags: China, Germany, Mexico, Pharmaceutical, Brazil

The global pharmaceutical cartridges market size is expected to reach USD 1.83 billion by 2026, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of 7.8% during the forecast period. Rising awareness regarding the benefits of using pharmaceutical cartridges in the packaging industry is propelling the market demand. These benefits include on-time, accurate, and safe drug delivery, break-resistance packaging, and low residual volumes of drugs. Increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, such as arthritis, diabetes, and oral conditions, and high demand for long-term storage of drugs are also anticipated to contribute toward market growth.

For instance, as per the National Diabetes Statistics Report published in 2017, American Indians were reported with the highest prevalence of diabetes for both females (15.3%) and males (14.9%). Insulin therapy plays an important role in the treatment of diabetes. Thus, growing cases of diabetes may augment the demand for insulin therapy. Previously, traditional packaging, such as blister packs and bottles, were used for insulin delivery. However, owing to several advantages, pharmaceutical cartridges are being preferred, which, in turn, is supporting market development.

In addition, various initiatives taken by prominent companies in the industry are also expected to augment the pharmaceutical cartridges market demand. For example, the chairman and CEO of Merck, stated in an article that the company is planning to convert its injectable products to the new glass packaging solution, once it receives the approval. Furthermore, in 2015, Schott AG started a center of excellence at its U.S. production facility for developing chemically-strengthened glass cartridges.

Click the link below:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/pharmaceutical-cartridges-market

Further key findings from the study suggest:
Anticoagulants Market Size, Share, Revenue, CAGR, Outlook, Demand, Trend, Growth and Forecast by 2026
By: Wilson Rodrigues
Tags: Blood, Healthcare, Market Research Reports, Medicine, Pharmaceutical

Global Anticoagulants Market:

The Global Anticoagulants Market was valued at USD 25.47 Billion in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 44.70 Billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 7.30 % from 2019 to 2026.

What is Anticoagulant?

Anticoagulants are the chemical substance that helps prevent blood clots, turning into solid clumps of cells that stick together or coagulate. Generally given to patients those who are at a high risk of getting clots, to reduce their chances of developing serious conditions such as strokes and heart attacks.

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Global Anticoagulants Market Outlook:

Anticoagulants have been known for many decades to decrease the rate of stroke, as its basic function is to prevent clotting in locations and situations where clotting is desirable. Increase in patients with active cancer, stroke is driving the anticoagulant market.

Global Anticoagulants Market Competitive Landscape:

The “Global Anticoagulants Market” study report will provide a valuable insight with an emphasis on global market including some of the major players such as Aspen Holdings, Bayer AG, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Johnson & Johnson Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, GlaxoSmithKline plc., Pfizer, Inc., Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Sanofi S.A.

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