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How To Use Notion for Startup Marketing Teams
By: Startup Funding Event
Tags: Marketing, Startup, Sales, Notion, Entrepreneurship

A Simple Structure Is a Stable One

Due to its simplicity, people receive an overview and feel calm. It does not overwhelm its viewers. It is because it is not bombarded with too much text or graphics. Having an overview means controlling the situation. It calms the nerves when you need to do many things. Also, you do not have to use much energy in figuring out what still has to be done and what is already done. There is a flow of efficiency. It allows one to see what needs to be done to complete it.

This extends to more complicated structures, which are still manageable such as the example below.

Image by Maria B.

Notion is doing the same with scheduling reminders. It helps people to stay on track with everything. Furthermore, these team dashboards are split up into individual ones. It breaks down complexity to simplicity. Everyone knows what to do. But, it is still possible for the individual to check what the others are doing. If someone is stuck, Moreover, a big plus again, progress can be seen immediately. Thus, bottlenecks are identified as the following picture of the kanban system illustrates.

Image by Maria B.

A clear sign of too much going on at once!

In conclusion, the kanban method in its core is simply the following guidelines: work is pulled when capacity permits.

Talking more about the app, it can be used individually or in collaborations with friends, colleagues, and whole teams. Actually, there is no limit to how many people can be invited to view, comment, and edit the shared workplace. And as in Whatsapp, some admins invite or kick-out people. It also has a cool feature in the fact that you can share a file with someone who does not have the app. You create a link and that person works on the online version of it.

Next to that, many integrations of other software are possible. For instance, Google Calendar, Slack, Outlook, Trello, or Salesforce can be integrated. This adds to the statement of Notion in the beginning: the all-in-one workplace. Yet, one has to state that there are some flaws and limitations. Many software tools can not be integrated. This article provides more information on that. It should be consulted if issues arise.

There is another aspect that is valued about Notion. It is a fact that many pictures and icons can be inserted. It is used to give texts, notes, databases, and so on a visual appeal. It helps again to give a better overview and find files and sections easier.
Why money does not lift up countries out of poverty — and innovation does
By: Vitor Shin Kitahara
Tags: Business, Startup, Design Thinking, Innovation, Entrepreneurship

The mobile phone company

In the late 1990s, Mo Ibrahim, a former technical director for British Telecom who was running his own successful consulting firm, conceived the first mobile phone company in Africa. As you might think, people thought he was crazy. Besides the political turmoil, people have never used a phone, let alone owned one. The majority of the African territory also had no existing infrastructure for old landline telephone, let alone the cell towers that were needed for a mobile company to function. At that time, cellphones were a luxury item for the rich.

But Ibrahim saw things differently, instead of just seeing poverty, he saw an opportunity. As he recalls: “If you live far away from the village where your mother lives and you want to talk to her, you might have to make a seven-day journey. If you could just pick up a device and speak to her instantly, what would be the value of that? How much money would you save? How much time?”. As pointed by Christensen, Ibrahim focused on the struggle to accomplish something in which there were few good solutions.

This kind of struggle is presented as nonconsumption because consumers are desperate to make progress in a certain aspect of their lives but there is no affordable and accessible solution for it. Here, Ibrahim saw the opportunity. Create a new market for those people.

Ibrahim founded Celtel with just five employees. The obstacles were enormous. There was no infrastructure, so he had to build them all. There was no power, so he provided his own power; there were no logistics, so he created his own; there were no roads, so he built makeshift roads.

In six years, the company gained 5.2 million customers and was present in 13 African countries. In 2004, revenues reached $614 million and a net profit of $147 million. The year after, Ibrahim decided to sell the company for a whopping $3.4 billion.

Nowadays, Africa is home to numerous mobile phone companies, and by 2020, the industry forecasted to support 4.5 million jobs and add more than $214 billion of value to the African economy.
Our investment in HubBox
By: Force Over Mass
Tags: Technology, Startup, Venture Capital, Ecommerce, Entrepreneurship

This post originally appeared on our blog, find it and other updates here.

Force Over Mass has invested in HubBox, a logistics platform that allows retailers of all sizes to offer click-and-collect to their customers.

Growth in the number of people shopping online is putting pressure on retailer supply chains. Individual deliveries to homes are far slower and more expensive for logistics companies to complete than bulk deliveries to centralized locations. One way to alleviate the pressure is through click-and-collect, which allows couriers to deliver in bulk to locations close to customers. Not only does this provide a cheaper and more efficient service for retailers, it also offers greater flexibility for customers that cannot be at home to accept deliveries.

HubBox allows retailers of any size to offer click and collect, using HubBox’s software and collection network. The average cost of delivery is 40% cheaper than home deliveries and HubBox charges a percentage of the savings generated, making it cost-negative for new clients.

Hubbox currently generates strong annual recurring revenues (ARR), and is reaching an inflection point in growth on the back of a new partnership with UPS in the US. Through this partnership, Hubbox will offer any online retailers access to the largest click-and-collect network in the country. With 24,000 collection points, Hubbox becomes almost three times larger than its nearest competitor.

HubBox is run by CEO Sam Jarvis and CTO Jon Pawley and has attracted a high-calibre team. Chairman Rob Fraser was previously CIO at Boots and Sainsburys, while Greg Brown and Dan O’Connor, who lead the US team, both held senior positions at UPS.

Learn more about HubBox here.
Employee Healthcare Costs Continue to Rise? Here’s how to fix this.
By: Priyanka Sachdeva
Tags: Employee Engagement, Healthcare, Business, Startup

There are various reasons. One factor is the increasing expense of first-line medicines, devices and drugs. At the point when an organization creates and licenses a better than ever gadget or prescription, it is ensured under patent laws and the organization can along these lines charge anything they desire. There is no opposition except if a superior elective comes out or the patent terminates and a “conventional” elective exists.

Another factor is increasingly bureaucratic ways which are proceeded with hostile nature of the medical services framework. I’ve seen the degree of intricacy important to rehearse increment dramatically in the course of recent years. With bureaucracy, guidelines and a hostile society come added costs.

Since a large number of people are getting sick because of wrongdoings in terms of lifestyle, eating habits, thinking process and what’s in it for me attitude etc.

All the above leads to one or the other sickness.

With Onsurity, affordable employee healthcare for MSMEs and startups is a reality. You can give your team the healthcare they deserve, with lower healthcare costs for everyone. Not only do you save, but your team has access to some truly great benefits they will love to use.
Kuda raises $25m funding led by valar ventures to provide digital only-banking services to every African, home and diaspora.
By: Nelson Gabriel
Tags: Fintech, Company Culture, Startup, African Startup, Banking

Nigerian fintech company, Kuda, a digital bank raised $25m series A round funding to expand across Africa. Led by valar ventures, a firm co-founded by PayPal founder, Peter Thiel and other VC firms that participated in the round as well.

Kuda recently raised $10m of seed round Capital, now followed by it’s $25m series A round. The company said it had about 300,000 active users (Mostly e-commerce businesses and individuals) with an average monthly transactions of about $500 million.

5 months on, the company gave a hindsight of currently having about 650,000 active users. That’s a huge difference, about 350,000 difference. Ryan Laubscher, the company’s COO (Chief operating officer) said kuda processed $2.2billion in transactions in February 2021. A comparatively staggering difference of $5.1m processed in February 2020.

Now, Kuda plans on building far and wide across Africa and for Africans in the diaspora. All of these have been achieved in just nigeria where the company was built as a no fees, first Nigeria’s digital only bank in 2019 with the seed round funding the company raised.

On an interview the company’s COO, Ryan Laubscher said, “Our growth is at the point where we need to beef up our technology and people. But in terms of our plans for the next 18 months, we’ve got sufficient capital to fund those plans. If we need more capital, it’s going to mean that something is going very right. And if that’s the case, we can raise again.” Their plan is to further accelerate the company’s growth in ways that those investors who couldn’t get in at this round would still be interested in being part of the Kuda story when they raise again.

“What really excites me is blowing people away with the quality of customer service where they really feel that they are loved by their bank,” Laubscher says.
Do I need to sanitize my groceries?
By: 'My' Safety Lifestyle Brand
Tags: Sterilizer, CEO, Startup, Sanitizers

The thing about the spread is that you never know where the virus is and because it gets transmitted through air, water, and everything you can think of, being extremely careful is very important.

That means sanitizing every common touchpoint including the door handles, lift panels, etc., and because groceries are also handled by many people starting from the supplier, distributor, to the department store and the billing or delivery executive, sterilizing your groceries becomes inevitable.

There are many tabletop Sanitizers like ‘MY’ 40 litre UV Safe Tabletop Sanitizer Box that allows you to place multiple items in one go; you can place your gadgets along with the box of groceries, parcels, packages, and with a one-touch safety knob all your items can be sanitized with an efficiency of 99.99%.

https://www.digitalfirstmagazine.com/how-innovative-start-ups-are-weaving-safety-into-our-daily-lifestyle/

#CEO #MY #MyPPE #Kavinkumarkandasamy #startupstory #startups #startupstories #digitalfirst #startupbusiness #startupindia #dailylifestyle #lifestyle #safetyfirst #lifestylechallenge #lifestyleproducts #Safetyproducts #innovation
Startup of the week : Grade-Up. Earlier this week a rather quiet but…
By: Tristan Perdoux
Tags: AI, Edtech, Startup, Vc Funding, Entrepreneurship

Earlier this week a rather quiet but innovative start-up celebrated its first anniversary. Created in March 2020 by four French students attending ESTP Engineering School, Grade-Up might appear to some as another individual tutoring platform among so many, but things quickly get very exciting when looking into the added value they offer.

Grade-Up: a young and dynamic team (From left to right: Adrien Weill COO, Clément Roger CEO, Benjamin Presberg Business Developer and Grégory Meyer CTO)

The business plan of the young company is rather straightforward: students book lessons with teachers online (usually graduates from top Universities or Business and Engineering Schools) and pay through the same platform. Customers can count these expenses as tax deductible while teachers make good pocket money (around 40€ an hour for Masters students). The real specificity of the start-up lies elsewhere: a one of a kind matchmaking algorithm. Students take a neuroscience based test, developed by Swiss company BrainCore, in order to be paired with a teacher that corresponds to the students’ needs and ways of learning.

And the recipe seems to work! After a year of activity, Grade-Up offers its services to over a hundred regular clients while relying almost exclusively on word of mouth for its client acquisition. Consequently, the startup was incubated at Station F, a major Paris-based incubator, while its ambitious founders found time to combine day to day activities and studies. Indeed, Adrien Weill, COO of the company, is following a double degree in a prestigious French Business School while Benjamin Presberg, Business Developer, will attend classes at UCLA starting September. The numbers of students and teachers on the platform are increasing every week although initially Covid-19 had an negative impact on the performances of the company. The big increase in struggling students caused by online classes and high-school closures pushed many parents to resort to private tutors for their children; things are looking up for this innovative venture!

Sources:

This article was written following an interview March 2nd with Grade-Up COO and Co-Founder Adrien Weill

Grade-Up website : https://grade-up.fr/

Station F website : https://stationf.co/fr/
5 top websites for startups perks
By: Jean Loup
Tags: Entrepreneuriat, Startup, Startup Lessons, Entreperneur, Entrepreneurship

Startup perks used to be reserved to a happy few: accelerators and incubators. That time is over. More and more businesses are being built outside of tech ecosystems, fully or partially remote. Today, any entrepreneur can easily access perks from the best SaaS tools out there to save a lot of money. At a time where nearly 85% of small companies have already invested in SaaS with a spending increase to 50% in 2020, using the best software at the best price has become strategic for growth.

So what are the main platforms for perks? I nailed down 5 websites that offer the best tools out there (AWS, Notion, Airtable, etc.) for the best offers (thousands of dollars in credits). Disclaimer: I’m the co-founder of one of them :) If you think of another website to add, let me know in the comments!

Secret is a marketplace purely dedicated to startup perks. Through a freemium model (from $0 to $199/year), you get access to up to 160+ offers on SaaS and join an active community of fellow entrepreneurs. Secret’s support team is dedicated to making sure you receive the credits you apply for.

Offers: 160+ Total Savings: $400,000+ Pricing: $0 to $199 per year

2. Founder Club by Product Hunt

Founder Club is a program launched by Product Hunt dedicated to perks for founders. You pay one plan ($720/year) to access all of the offers unlimited.

Offers: 80+ Total savings: $100,000+ Pricing: $720 per year

3. Startup School by YCombinator

Startup School is a free online program and global community of founders. You can meet other founders through weekly live video chats and share tips. To access the deals you need to complete the Startup School Certification by taking courses and writing post-watch videos.

Offers: 100+ Total savings: $30,000+ Pricing: free upon courses completion

4. F6s

F6s is the world’s largest platform for founders. They enable founders to interact with investors, accelerators/incubators, etc. Their perks catalog is fully free, yet their offers’ values are limited — seems to be more of a catalog of extended free trial offers.

Offers: 537 Total savings: N/A Pricing: free

5. Segment Startup Program

Segment is an analytics tool for businesses. Their startup program offers their product for free for up to 2 years. Alongside the tool, you can also get access to offers from a selection of partners. Access to the program is subject to approval based on your application.
I am the fragment of your past story Who just wants to know your situation
Tags: Covid 19, Social Media, Community, Startup

I never meant to bother you

Interrupt every peace of your life

It’s just not easy for me to forget you

And go away

Give it a little time

So that I get used to it

Breathe without you

Ooooohhh …

For yourself

Listen…

I start the day by chanting Your name

I breathe the air you always give me free

I will never forget Your endless mercy

even though the ocean I made ink to write it

Thank God, thank God

I adore You endlessly

Alhamdulillah, thank God

how good it is to live in gratitude

I will never forget Your endless grace

ow ow no end

Alhamdulillah, thank God

I adore You endlessly

Alhamdulillah, thank God

how good it is to live in gratitude

Thank God, thank God

I adore You endlessly

May Allah always bestow His mercy

may Allah always bestow His blessings

And again there was a sad incident

The one you always give

As if meaningless for the umpteenth time

I can’t do anything else

Shall we end here enough

Even though the heart says it can’t

Do not want to be late in ending this situation

Maybe this is our way

And again there was a sad incident

The one you always give

As if I was nothing for the umpteenth time

I can’t do anything else ooh

And again there was a sad incident

The one you always give

Wipe your tears

Hold my body tight

Gaze at me to your heart’s content

Enjoy second by second

that we may not be able to feel anymore

Smell my body

who may no longer be able to calm your anxiety

Your worries …

Sing a beautiful song

Before I left and may not come back

Sing a beautiful song

To let me go and not come back

Enjoy second by second

that we may not be able to feel anymore

Smell my body

who may no longer be able to calm your anxiety

Your worries …

Sing a beautiful song

Before I left and may not come back

Sing a beautiful song

To let me go and not come back

Sing a beautiful song

Before I left and may not come back

Sing a beautiful song

To let me go …

I go …

Sing a beautiful song

Before I left and may not come back

(Could I come back)

Sing a beautiful song

To let me go and not come back
OriginScale’s first funding round set for the 29th of March
By: Harriet Tornincasa
Tags: Tech, Startup, Funding

Founded in 2019, OriginScale promises to make supply chains visible, traceable and most importantly reliable for any consumer packaged goods (CPG). As well as a host of other features designed to make the supply chain process easy to manage. From tracing issues to recalling batches. This is not only a great tool for any company using it but also good news for a consumer since any issues can be traced all the way back to the factory. The biggest selling point is that this can all be done simply and in one place. Allowing for more efficiency and making the user confident that everything is being taken care of. The user-friendly nature of the product would be ideal for any start-ups handling CPG with little to no knowledge of the process. It’s currently in its beta stages but you can sign up for a demo in which you will be taken through the process and a plan will be set up for your needs. This one-on-one approach is a great addition and again would be perfect for anyone new to supply chain management.

Supply Chain

Co-Founder, Bhaskar Ahuja labels himself as a ‘serial entrepreneur’ and has created an array of successful startups before this. As well as having extensive and impressive IT and tech knowledge.

OriginScale has many competitors. Most notably Oracle, with their Netsuite that offers tracking, management and inventory control amongst other features. They boast some pretty impressive clientele such as Charlotte Tilbury, a well-known cosmetics brand.

Despite their collection of social media accounts, OriginScale does not have any marketing up and running at the moment. Each social media account is barren, with no posts and not even a profile picture on any account other than their Linkedin. Considering they’re coming up to their first funding round, it would not be surprising if marketing campaigns are launched in the near future. Due to the online nature of the product, their competitors rely on things such as active social media accounts. Namely, Linkedin since it is entirely for professionals, and Twitter which has a large number of company and business accounts. As well as Google Ads, which ensures that their company is at the top of the search results for specific search terms.

OriginScale has some big competition but we’ll definitely be keeping an eye out after their funding round has finished to see where they take their product.
Our Incubation Programme Goes Live!
Tags: Startups, Pre Seed, Seed Stage, Incubation, Nigeria

In July 2020, we launched a programme where we offered two idea-stage (or pre-seed stage) startups sprint scholarships, where we worked with these startups over a three-week period each to validate their ideas through better understanding their potential customers, challenging their assumptions about the problem their ideas intend to solve and quickly testing their solutions.

This scholarship was very timely in the middle of a global pandemic that had disrupted economic activities and income streams for billions around the world, thus reducing the amount of capital available for investing in startups and increasing the pressure on startups to reach product-market fit and generate revenue faster than before.

Working with the two startups that won the scholarship was a very rewarding experience: we helped the startups define their problem hypothesis, interact with their potential users, and challenge their assumptions. Through these activities, they were able to glean insights and gain new perspectives into the problem they intend to solve, and ideate solutions that will meet the specific needs of the market.

Two things were very apparent to us in the course of the scholarship: first, that three weeks was not long enough to achieve the results we were aiming for; and second, that there is the potential to apply our process to many more startups in the pre-seed stage.

With that in mind, we have developed a 12-week programme where we shall be working with as many as four pre-seed stage startups: those with ideas, prototypes, or a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Through applying design thinking tools and methods, we shall work with them to challenge their assumptions about the problem, their solution ideas, and the potential users; use the insights to refine their ideas; prototype their solutions, and quickly test their solutions with their potential users.

The Mindcapital Startup Sprint will be a combination of virtual workshops, seminars, field activities, and office hours, and will culminate in a Demo Day before potential investors and media.

By the end of the 12-week programme, the startups would have built solutions that have achieved product-market fit, which will put them firmly on the path to fast growth and make them investment-ready.

So what are we looking for?

We are looking for teams of at least two people with technical skills in design, technology, and marketing, possessing unique insight or expertise into a problem that is a critical pain to a large or growing market and is actively trying to solve that problem. The team must have a commitment to building their startup and have a growth mindset — open to learning and willing to be flexible.

If this describes your startup, then you should definitely apply for the Mindcapital Startup Sprint here.
The Joy of Simplifying Chaos: Rebranding Tydy
By: Gaurabh Mathure
Tags: Startup, Employee Experience, Rebranding, Onboarding, Enterprise

Originally written and published on the Tydy Blog.

Over the last few months, all of us at Tydy have gone through an important journey. One that made us look inwards. One where we asked ourselves difficult questions about our future and our past. Most importantly, we evaluated all of this in the context of the present. Saying ‘we live in interesting times’ might just scratch the surface, considering the current state of how we work.

The goal of our rebrand: To strengthen our position (as a company) for who we are today while charting a path for where we want to make an impact tomorrow.

I am fortunate to have started a company with 2 other co-founders, where we have an equal balance of business, technology, and design. As the co-founder with a background in design, it’s important for me, to embed design into the fabric of how we work. This has been recognized by our customers and is evident in our philosophy and approach to onboarding. However, where design has been considered in our approach and product experience, it has been ignored in our brand.

A quick preview for those who are don’t know Tydy:

Tydy is the global productivity platform for HR & IT teams, chosen by companies such as Unilever, AB InBev, Genpact, EXL, Fidelity and others — to help deliver a unified & personalized onboarding experience to new hires. We do this by automating every single touch point of the onboarding exprience, from capturing data, managing vendors, keeping new hires engaged, informing stakeholders, and much more.

An untamed brand image

To show you a glimpse of how untamed our brand is currently, the images below show the results that a quick Google search for ‘Tydy onboarding’ generates. Barely cohesive. Everything starting from the logo, fonts, colors, social posts, app screenshots, are all different, representing how loosely cultivated our brand is (until now).
3 Best Ways to Use Solvr as a Tutor
Tags: Tutor, Students, Schools, Edtech, Startup

Help as many people as you can

The more tasks you have completed, the better. You’ll also likely have more reviews so not only will you look more trustable, you’ll look a lot more credible when a learner clicks on your profile.

The more people you help, the more you’ll learn about what specifically students like and don’t like. So helping a lot of students will provide you with a good amount of experience, which you can then use to satisfy other Learners.

Just keep tutoring, not only will you make so much money, but you’ll also have many tasks are done which makes you seem experienced. With lots of tasks done comes great reviews, so just keep tutoring on Solvr.

If you really want to take it up a notch, you could create a learner profile and try to get tutored in a subject. Once you’re receiving tutoring, reflect on the good things your assigned tutor is doing and the things they could do to create a more memorable/useful experience. Then incorporate that in your tutoring strategy.

I hope this was helpful! Remember, if you need any help at all, just send us an email at hello@solvrapp.com! We’ll be sure to respond as soon as we can!
Leveraging the problems that revolve around our environment and society at Maker Mela 2021.
Tags: Environment, Startup, Climate Change, Innovation, Entrepreneurship

Leveraging the problems that revolve around our environment and society at Maker Mela 2021. rucha Nov 21, 2020·2 min read

Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever to have confronted human social, political, and economic systems. The stakes are massive, the risks and uncertainties severe, the economics controversial, the impacts devastating, the interactions with other environmental and non‐environmental issues running in many directions. The social problem‐solving mechanisms we currently possess were not designed, and have not evolved, to cope with anything like an interlinked set of problems of this severity, scale, and complexity. So far, we have tried as much as we can and are striving further to address the challenge adequately. Problems shall continue to manifest themselves — both as we try to prevent and as we try to adapt to the consequences of climate change — so human systems will have to learn how better to respond. At Maker Mela, innovations and creations meets reality wherein dreamers and developers pool in their thoughts and skill sets to bring forth whatever they can to make the environment and society help combat the threats the loom over our future generations.

One of our fellow maker is Utsav Gudhaka, whose project ‘U-farm microgreens’ aims to grow nutritious food in urban areas. His team intends to make nutritious vegetables in urban areas while using 90% less water and in indoor controlled environment to create a sustainable urban farming model. Their project manifests not only the idea of having quality products but also minimizing damage on environment at the same time.

So makers, come on and join hands with your like minded folks at Maker Mela for the year 2021, an initiative organized by Somaiya Riidl (Research Innovation Incubation Design Laboratory), as it goes virtual due to the ongoing pandemic, and help bring people from across the world together to celebrate the joy of entrepreneurship!
adele someone like you chords
Tags: Teknology, Animation, Startup, SEO

[Intro]

A A/G# F#m D

[Verse]

A A/G#

I heard that you’re settled down

F#m

That you found a girl

D

And you’re married now

A A/G#

I heard that your dreams came true

F#m

Guess she gave you things

D

I didn’t give to you

A A/G#

Old friend why are you so shy

F#m

It ain’t like you to hold back

D

Or hide from life

[Bridge]

E9 F#m D

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but I

couldn’t stay away I couldn’t fight it

E9

I’d hoped you’d see my face

F#m D E9/D D

And that you’d be reminded that for me it isn’t over

[Chorus]

A E F#m D

Never mind, I’ll find someone like you

A E F#m D

I wish nothing but the best for you too

A E F#m D

Don’t forget me I beg I re-member you said

A E F#m D

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts in-stead

A E F#m D

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, yeah

[Verse]

A A/G#

You’d know how the time flies

F#m

Onlv yesterday

D

was the time of our lives

A

We were born and raised

A/G#

In a summer haze

F#m D

Bound by the surprise of our glory days

[Bridge]

E9 F#m D

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but I

couldn’t stay away I couldn’t fight it

E9

I’d hoped you’d see my face

F#m D E9/D D

And that you’d be reminded that for me it isn’t over

[Chorus]

A E F#m D

Never mind, I’ll find someone like you

A E F#m D

I wish nothing but the best for you too

A E F#m D

Don’t forget me I beg I re-member you said

A E F#m D

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts in-stead, yeah

[Break]

E/B

Nothing compares no worries or cares

F#m/C#

Regrets and mistakes their memories make

D

Who would have known how

Bm A/C# D E/D

Bitter-sweet this would taste

[Chorus]

A E/G# F#m D

Never mind I’ll find someone like you

A E/G# F#m D

I wish nothing but the best for yo — ou

A E F#m D

Don’t forget me I beg I re-member you said

A E/G# F#m D

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts in-stead

[Chorus]

A E F#m D

Never mind I’ll find someone like you

A E F#m D

I wish nothing but the best for you too

A E F#m D

Don’t forget me I beg I re-member you said

A E F#m D

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts in-stead

A E F#m D A

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead Yeah Yeah
Everything You Need To Know About IID Membership
Tags: Iid, Entrepreneur, Startup, Iid For Entrepreneurs, Msmes

Institute for Industrial Development (IID) provides various types of services to the bonafide members, and it is an incubator under MSME, Government of India. It provides a complete industrial solution in diversified business sectors along with professional’s help.

IID membership provides the advantage of complete access to various services catered by us. These services are exclusively accessible to the members-only to help them grow into successful entrepreneurs and be a part of the fullness of the Indian Economy. The membership program is composed, keeping in mind to nourish entrepreneurs to flourish through the vulnerable stages of business development.

The membership will contribute to focused support to the entrepreneurs and develop their concepts into market-ready products and by encouraging them to establish their business idea. It also imparts:

Technical Industrial Knowledge Insights Into Detailed Project Report Facilitating the Necessary Fundraising Networking with Suppliers and Other Industry professionals Registration Services Under One Roof

Membership for IID does not only bestow knowledge to enterprises, individuals, or startups, but any institution, expert, or supplier can also take advantage of these membership programs and grow into their respective fields.

There are four types of memberships available:

Incubate Membership Executive Member Membership Associate Member Membership Corporate Member Membership

These four types of memberships subserve different sorts of needs. IID membership is profitable for all kinds of businesses, as it provides comprehensive knowledge about various sectors of a venture, which one might fly to look in the vicinity of.
VCs & Founders: Here is a PMF finder tool, download now
By: Deepak Abbot
Tags: Venture Capital, Startup, Growth, Founders

VCs & Founders: Here is a PMF finder tool, download now

Q. What is a Product Market Fit?

A. Customers love the product, they are ready to pay/already paying, word of mouth or organic growth has kicked in.

Q. How do you measure it?

A. You just know it.

Q. How do you tell others/VCs that you have achieved PMF?

A. Your gut feel will reflect in some data. Some of it could be the following:

Organic growth: Low eCPI

Product love: Low uninstalls, high retention

Stickiness: High DAU/WAU/MAU ratio

Willingness to Pay: Transacted/Registered %

App rating: 4.7+ (ok ignore this, this can be faked — plenty of popular startups have some very happy customers apparently ;)

While growth is the only way of life for startups, tracking it the right way becomes extremely critical. We are inundated with panels, dashboards, visualization tools, complex analytics which apparently makes our lives easier but I personally prefer to manually keep a record of some of the extremely critical growth trackers. Adding it manually ensures that these metrics will always remain on top of your mind. And the cause & effect of features vs impact will be clearly visible while you are filling the sheet. All the product efforts are a waste if it doesn’t impact your top 8–10 KPIs.

I decided to create a very simple sheet comprising of the simplest metrics which can be a great indicative of the health of your startup. I am calling it a PMF tracker as it helps you validate your PMF hypothesis with the actual data.

Note: This sheet is only for B2C startups.

First of all here is the PMF excel dashboard you need to download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2h8cout7rzwhlsv/PMF%20Tracker.xlsx?dl=0

How to use this sheet: (this sheet has dummy data, replace with actual data)

Sheet 1 (Dashboard) shows the top App metrics Sheet 2 = Input all your key app data here (replace app with website data if you don’t have an app) Sheet 3 (Unit economics) = optional for PMF but good for transaction led businesses Sheet 4 (Key metrics) = CPI, CAC, LTV finder. Optional for PMF Sheet 5, 6, 7 are optional and could be for your internal tracking Sheet 8 (benchmark) = Global benchmarks for key app data vs your average

Note: Sheets which are protected can be unprotected by clicking on Review > Unprotect (there is no password)

How to read PMF data in the sheet:

There are 2 confidence levels of PMF in this sheet. If the first box says Yes then some of your metrics are promising. If first box says NO, then you have not achieved PMF yet.

If the 2nd box says YES, then it is an emphatic yes as all metrics points to that. If that says No, and above box says Yes, you are on the right track.

Pre-revenue startups can ignore transacted/registered ratios and modify the PMF formula accordingly (ping me if you need help in editing the formula for pre-revenue model)

This sheet can also be used by any post PMF stage startups for tracking their growth.

Do share your feedback with me at dabbot@gmail.com or tag me on Twitter at twitter.com/deepakabbot
Why Startup Mindset is the First Step Toward Startup?
By: Startup Guide
Tags: Startupmindset, Success, Entrepreneur, Startup, Motivation

by: Nxtdecade.com

Making startup is the need of time. Modern youngsters have lot more resources than any other generation that previously had. Internet gives them access to the ocean of information at their fingertips, social media give them access to interact and collaborate to any of the person to the next corner of the world.

Further, the new ways of startup, like digital startup, networking startup, and other online based startup does not need too much investment as once need for setting up factories and industries.

And, so young generation need not worry much even about investment, team, and information. They already have amazing ideas.

So, what is that thing which is stopping young budding entrepreneurs from starting their own startup?

Startup Mindset. Even with all the resources needed for startup, you cannot start your own startup if you don’t have the exact mindset for it.

We talked to Dr. Shyam Prasad Rajasekaran, the CEO and founder of TwirlTact, and noted down some ways to build Startup Mindset.

Read the full article: Wanna Build Your Own Startup? First Build Your Startup Mindset.

It was really an amazing session with Dr. Shyam. And, we appreciate his effort for sharing his experience.

Once a budding entrepreneurs build a startup mindset, no power can stop him from setting and succeeding his/her own startup.

Thanks for reading this article.
How To Fix Rendering Issues in Chrome on Ubuntu
By: Brian Terczynski
Tags: Chrome, Hardware Acceleration, Gpu, Ubuntu

I’ve noticed that whenever I put my Ubuntu laptop to sleep (e. g. by closing the lid), when I wake it back up my Google Chrome browser has drawing issues. Sometimes it’s a lot of black rectangles (like in the image above). Sometimes it’s a rainstorm of tiny blue and yellow rectangles. But no matter what, the only way to clear it up is to close and restart Chrome.

Like with anything in life, if you need help, you do an Internet search. And I found this one article that talks about a similar phenomenon, but it’s with Chrome on Mac, and it’s a bunch of blue horizontal lines. The fix it suggests is to disable hardware acceleration. It’s for fixing Chrome on Mac, but I decided to try it on Ubuntu.

Fixing The Redraw Issue on Ubuntu

1 — Open the Chrome menu, and go to Settings:

2 — Expand “Advanced”, and click on “System”:

3 — Disable “Use hardware acceleration when available”, and click “Relaunch”:

Chrome will start back up with “hardware acceleration” disabled.

Now when I put my system to sleep, and bring it back up, Chrome comes back up just fine, with no redrawing issues! So it appears the advice in the aforementioned macReports article works for Ubuntu as well.

What Is Hardware Acceleration? Will There Be Problems If It’s Turned Off?
Installing a Joomla instance on a DigitalOcean LAMP stack in less than 15 minutes!
By: Victor Burnett
Tags: Digitalocean, Joomla, Ubuntu, Lamp, Droplet

Overview

Sign up for a DigitalOcean account (+$100 new user credit) Create a new project by clicking ‘ + New Project’

under the Projects tab on the sidebar.

Projects tab on sidebar

3. Create a new droplet by clicking the icon similar to the image below:

4. Next, choose the ‘Marketplace’ tab and select the LAMP stack on the latest version of Ubuntu:

LAMP on 18.04

5. Choose the price tier of your choice (e.g. $5/mo), scroll down to the very bottom, skipping all other configurations and click the big, green ‘Create’ button.

Success! You have created a LAMP stack server Droplet on DigitalOcean.

6. Next step is installing the Joomla instance by launching the server’s CLI through the ‘Access’ link on the Droplet manager page:

Check your e-mail for a password for the ‘root’ user sent by DigitalOcean, otherwise reset and get a new one. You will need this to access your Droplet.

7. Let’s set up your MySQL database by entering:

mysql_secure_installation

Use the following as a guide through the next series of prompts:

Prompts for MySQL database security

7. Navigate to the ‘tmp’ folder from your root directory and download the Joomla! zip file into it:

8. Install the ‘unzip ’module and unzip Joomla to a folder you create ‘joomla’:

apt-get install unzip

unzip mkdir /var/www/html/unzip Joomla_3-9-4-Stable-Full_Package.zip -d /var/www/html/

9. Navigate to the joomla folder, and run the following:

cd /var/www/html/

cp htaccess.txt .htaccess chown -R www-data.www-data .

chmod -R 755 .

10. Create a MySQL database ‘joomla’ and admin user:

mysql -u root -p

Press enter when prompted for password

CREATE DATABASE joomla;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on joomla.* to 'admin'@'localhost'

identified by 'password';

This will create a user ‘admin’ with the ability to make any changes in the joomla database.

Remember to change the password placeholder to your password of choice.

Finally,

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit

11. Restart the Apache server,

systemctl restart apache2

Then navigate to the IP address associated with your Droplet instance and continue the set up using the username and password you created for the joomla database.

12. IMPORTANT: if you are getting a 500 error when you navigate to your droplet via the broswer, check your apache server logs using

nano /var/log/apache2/error.log

If you see the following error:

.htaccess: Invalid command ‘RewriteEngine’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

enable mod_rewrite using the command

a2enmod rewrite

and restart once again

systemctl restart apache2

Hope this works for you!
Auto Backup Mysql Database From Ubuntu Server to Google Drive using Shell Script
By: Sathish Kumar
Tags: MySQL, Google Drive, Ubuntu

Put the link in google and give permission (Note: Only 1 google drive account should be connected with Server, Make sure to give permission to the Mail id for which you want to backup sql file)

Step 7: Click Allow to give access

It will generate a random string

Step 8: Copy the verification Code & put it in Terminal

Now we successfully connected our Google drive account with our cloud server

2. Steps to Create Shell Script:

Step 1: In Terminal type sudo su

Sudo su

Step 2: Go to root directory, in this tutorial I done all things from root directory so I recommend you to do from root directory

cd /

Step 3: Create shell script file in root directory

nano backup.sh

Step 4: Go to the below github link, copy backup.sh code then paste it in your backup.sh file

Save it by pressing Ctrl+X and then type Y then press enter button

Step 5: Give permission to backup.sh file

chmod +x backup.sh

Step 6: Now create a folder in your google drive account (Which we connected to our cloud instance in previous steps)

Copy the URL of that google drive folder

Step 7: Now go to your terminal and test the script

To test the script, we have to pass 5 parameters to the script

5 parameters are,

Backup folder name — Folder we have in our cloud instance to store backup locally. test_db, (Database name which you are going to dump). Database username (Username you use to access your database, Ex: root) Database password. Google drive folder id, Which you noted down in

Step 6:

The final command will be like the following, Type it in terminal then click enter

./backup.sh mysqlbackup test_db root pass123 1OeUBK4T3AXiTl8Kc4bdFyv14uvC1qPv5

After executing the command type “ls” in Terminal you will find mysqlbackup folder which you passed as a parameter.

Now go to mysqlbackup folder by typing “cd mysqlbackup” then type “ls” you will find a dumped Database file.

Now go to Google drive Check your folder you will find a Backedup Database

Step 8: Now we are going to automate our script using crontab

nano /etc/crontab

Add the below line in your crontab file

0 11 * * * root /backup.sh mysqlbackup test_db root pass123 1OeUBK4T3AXiTl8Kc4bdFyv14uvC1qPv5

Save it by pressing Ctrl+X and then type Y then press the enter button

In the above command 0 11 * * * refers to the time when you want to backup sql file to the server….Here 0 11 * * * means everyday backup will be done at 11 AM.

Now you have done everything for auto backup

Check your google drive after 11.00 AM(Time which we provided in crontab. You need to check according to your time which you entered in crontab)

If you want to take backup at 11.00 PM, the command will be

0 23 * * * root /backup.sh mysqlbackup test_db root pass123 1OeUBK4T3AXiTl8Kc4bdFyv14uvC1qPv5

If you encounter any problem please let me know in comments.
Apache Cassandra — Instalation and Configuration
By: Ac Carvalho
Tags: Ubuntu

Cassandra is a free and open-source, NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.

To start lets install cassandra on ubuntu:

Step 1:

Install java 8, the instalation of java 8 is recomended because cassandra run into some errors when other recent java versions are installed.

Get the java 8 repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

Update the package:

sudo apt update

Instalation:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Install the JDK 8:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

Check the version:

java -version

Step 2:

Install apache casandra:



wget -q -O - Import repository GPG Apache Cassandra:wget -q -O - https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/KEYS | sudo apt-key add -

Add repository of apache cassandra to the system:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 311x main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.list'

Do the apt update to the package and install apache cassandra:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install cassandra

Check if cassandra is working:

nodetool status

Step 3:

To interact with cassandra run the following command :

cqlsh

Run this command to change cluster name:

UPDATE system.local SET cluster_name = 'CLUSTER NAME' WHERE KEY = 'local';

Or edit cassandra.yaml file :

sudo nano /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml

restart cassadra:

sudo systemctl restart cassandra

check if cassandra sevice is running (active running):

service cassandra status

Step 4:

Clone 2 more machines.

Step 5:

Change machine name:

sudo nano /etc/hostname

Add slaves names to slaves file: sudo nano /etc/slaves

Step 6:

change slaves names:

sudo nano /etc/hostname

reboot slaves:

sudo reboot

Step 7:

Show ip address for all machines:

ifconfig

or

ip addr show

Go to hosts and specify the slaves and master in all machines:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

ping all machines:

ping slave1

configure cassandra.yaml file:

sudo nano /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml seeds: ips of the machines that will be the nodes

listen_adress: 10.10.10.9 (this is server ip)

rpc_address 10.10.10.9 (again this is the server ip) Change endpoint_snitch to GossipingPropertyFileSnitch

check if nodetool is deteting node:

sudo nodetool status

configure the node at the slave2:

sudo nano /etc/cassandra/cassandra-rackdc.properties

Step 8:

Start cassandra at slaves first:

sudo service cassandra start

check if service is runnning:

sudo service cassandra status

Start cassandra in master:

sudo service cassandra start

check cassandra status:

sudo service cassandra status

check if casandra is reading all nodes

sudo nodetool status

Instlation of Apache Cassandra Multi-Node on Ubuntu (18.04) completed!

Installation made by:

André Carvalho

Rui Manta