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Excerpts from “Dear Designer,”
By: Jay Sethi
Tags: Startup, Design Thinking, Design, Technology, UX

The solution that you yourself design is also not going to be permanent — it is going to come with flaws that won’t be apparent until newer technologies are developed or another designer in the future assesses your solution and identifies scope for improvement, and refines the designs you offered, nesting a new solution within the constraints that your solution creates. Your solution is going to impact the lives of not just all of its users, but also of every human being who comes after this and deals with the same problem you worked towards solving. Every solution is just one tiny slice in a set of a large number of solutions to the same problem that span over all of time, each solution building on the successes and the failures of the solutions that came before, moving us closer towards our collective goal, the goal of design, the impossible state of utopia. Think and design for the whole world, as Uber Design’s brilliant book 77 things put it. By creating a solution you are setting precedent for how a specific problem should be solved henceforth, and, if successful, all future solutions to this same problem will be nested inside the notions your solution puts forward. Your work doesn’t just resonate with humanity but also extends the definition of humanity — of what it means to be human. You are partly responsible for the direction humanity moves in. Design for everyone who is and everyone who will be.
All systems go! What’s new at Vado?
Tags: Startup, Apps, Mobile App Development, Travel, Traveling

It has been a busy few months for the team at Vado, who have been progressing a number of big developments for our business and our travel inspiration app that we’re excited to now share with you…

The next phase

For those of you who signed up to test version one of our beta app, we can’t thank you enough for your feedback and we have been working hard to implement your suggestions. As a result, we are pleased to announce the latest update is now available for you to download. Thanks to your support, this will be the final version of the beta prior to launch!

Until then, we wanted to make the latest prototype available to you so that you can continue exploring the functionality, seeking travel inspiration and making memories. Please do check it out — and if you like what you see, it is now possible to invite 10 friends through the app to join you.

Of course, if you do have any further thoughts, you can alert us at www.vado.app. Just keep in mind that the beta’s purpose is to showcase the concept and is not the final product in terms of design and performance. Your feedback will always be of great importance to us as we continue the Vado journey together — and you will be amongst the first to see the end result in February 2020.

For anyone who has misplaced, or not yet received, their access code, just let us know. Or, new to Vado? Then please register your interest on our website and we will alert you to the launch early next year — more details coming up next!

New features

Vado is a travel app to help users get inspired, inspire others and remember everywhere. Prior to launch next year, we have been busy building even more functionality for you to enjoy. In addition to following other users, Vado will also incorporate a ‘Friend’ function for collaborating in groups, privately — to document joint photos and memories, create itineraries together, or share lists of top activities for an upcoming adventure.

In addition, the next version of Vado will introduce business profiles, paving the way for direct access to travel companies, too — your hotel concierge service, for example, could provide you with a list of nearby attractions, restaurants or shopping districts directly to your mobile phone. And that’s just the beginning… you’ll need to stay tuned for more!

Business growth

Joining us on our journey are eight new international investors of Vado, who we are delighted to have onboard in our drive to provide lovers of travel with a completely unique online experience for finding and sharing inspiration, planning and documenting that next amazing trip, and liaising directly with travel companies for information and bookings at their fingertips.

Investment will be used to grow the team and scale the platform for the next phase of Vado’s mission, focused on helping travellers gain access — and contribute — to the authentic and varied insight they need for the travel experiences they really want!

Interested in being a part of this exciting venture, or keen to find out more? Please visit our website, or contact us at www.vado.app.
Why vs what when asking questions
By: Joan R
Tags: Startup, Management, Engineering Mangement, One On One

One of the first tips that I got from one of the mentors I’ve had since I started working as an engineering manager was “on your one on ones, you should be asking a lot of questions and your report should be talking more than you”.

Following that suggestion, I created a bank of questions that I use in my 1:1s. This question bank helps me because at the beginning I found myself asking really vague questions such as ‘how is everything going?’. That type of questions rarely got an answer that we could iterate on. I wanted to have more productive conversations to try making my reports more successful.

The why question

In my question bank I had one question that I found myself using a lot because I thought it would help my reports. My question was: ‘Why did you do X?’.

At that time, I thought that asking this was going to encourage the report to do a retrospective into why did she do something (that most likely could have gone better) and thinking about alternatives that could be done in the future. To be fair, I actually usually changed that question for ‘why did we do X?’ so that it didn’t sound too personal or aggressive.

The problem with asking this question is that the report is more likely go into defensive mode. When asking ‘why did you decide to do X and not Z on that project?’ (in a context where the project failed), you are putting that person in a position where she might think that you are judging her values and that you question her willing to do things well.

The what question

A really simple change that I have done is to modify that ‘why’ for a ‘what’. So instead of asking ‘why did you do X?’, I now try to ask ‘what let to the decisions of doing X?’. By doing this little change, I’ve noticed that the reports are more willing to engage in the conversation with me, analyze the situation that occurred in the past and provide ideas to improve in the future. There is no time spent in trying to defend themselves, but all the time goes right away into problem solving.

I encourage you to try this. I think that by doing it, your conversations will go from being emotional and charged with value judgements to productive conversation that focuses on what happened and what can we change to get better.

But I still love using why…

I think there is a time where we can use ‘why’. And that time is when we are talking about future scenarios. The future is something that hasn’t happened yet (in case you didn’t know), so when we ask a report ‘why are you going to do X and not Y’, we are not encouraging the person into having regrets or self blames on something that they can’t change, because they actually can.

Asking why for future scenarios helps balancing all the different alternatives that we have and that we haven’t chosen yet.
HYPE SPIN® Accelerator Taiwan Launches its 3rd Cohort
By: Hype, Sports Innovation
Tags: Leadership, Startup, Sports Tech, Accelerator, Entrepreneurship

HYPE Sports Innovation launched the 3rd cycle of the HYPE SPIN® Accelerator Taiwan together with our valued partners IAPS & National Chiao Tung University.

Cheng Ho, the Founder & CEO of the Taiwanese startup, CHOXUE, kicked the day off with some inspiring words. His Startup CHOXUE is disrupting and influencing the educational system in order to encourage more young people to professionally engage in sports during their high school years.

We had the privilege of hosting phenomenal startups from around the world Russia, New Zealand, HongKong, Israel, India, and Taiwan! They all presented their startups in front of an international panel of industry leaders.

13 of them were selected to participate in the cohort.

Congratulations to our latest HYPE SPIN® Accelerator Taiwan cohort.

Fanlytiks |Red Dot Drone | STRYDE App | Komodo Monitr | Uniwill Technology | Gameconomy | Deepunch | Footbot | Freelates | DP Smart Technology |STRIKE | NICESUN Enterprise |Avountes

In addition to the fantastic HYPE SPIN® Accelerator Taiwan Bootcamp, we took part in a truly iconic conference. 2019 APEC Sports City Forum.

Today, economies around the world are using the hosting of sports events to package their cities and generate their own brand. Our CEO Ilan Hadar moderated a panel discussing “how to use technology to improve international sports event”, alongside him were Mr. Mike Yang, Mr. Sam Li, and Mr. Danny Fok.

HYPE CEO, Dr. Ilan Hadar moderating a panel discussing “How to use technology to improve the international sports events”

Later on that day, Our CEO Ilan Hadar and the Administration Director Ministry of Education Sports KAO, CHIN-HSUNG reaffirmed our commitment to each other, signing an MOU for the upcoming year. Our reinforcement of cooperation is a crucial part of advancing sports tech and innovation not only in Taiwan but as a vital step into the Asian Market.

MOU Agreement Exchange between HYPE Sports Innovation and the Administration Director Ministry of Education Sports

We would also like to thank Prof. Hank Huang for his ongoing support and contribution to furthering our partnership and more importantly, innovation in the world of sports!
New owners for Thomas Cook´s Nordic Business/
By: Canary Transfer Services
Tags: Transportation Planning, Startup, Travel, Transportation, Airport Shuttle Services

Magnus Wikner, CEO of Ving Group, and new part owner Strawberry Group’s Petter Stordalen. The business has been looking for new financial backers since its parent company went into liquidation.

New owners for Thomas Cook´s Nordic Business/

The Nordic countries Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland is not giving up their pretty profitable business even if the Thomas Cook is no longer around. The now have new owners and the business will be up and running very soon. It’s easy to see how it can be a great success in the future.

The new owners

Thomas Cook’s northern European tour operators and its regional airline have been looking for new owners and had success with the Norwegian businessman Petter Stordalen. Stordalen´s Strawberry Group, the parent company of Nordic Choice Hotels and two private equity firms will take over the business known as the Ving Group.

The Ving Group, includes country-specific tour operators Ving, Spies, Tjäreborg as well as Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.

“The new owners’ extensive industry experience and financial strength will give us the long-term stability we need as well as completely new opportunities to develop our customer offering in the future. The deal also means that the jobs for the more than 2,300 people working within the Ving Group, including our airline, are saved,” said Ving Group CEO Magnus Wikner.

The operations includes:

Ving (Norway and Sweden) Spies (Denmark) Tjäreborg (Finland)

The business will continue as normal under the new structure, although a message on the website says that bookings will be unavailable for a while. Eventually the new company also renamed its airline division to Sun Class Airlines.

In the Nordics Thomas Cook had no stores and 85 percent of its businesses was online and they had bookings from 400 000 people for christmas and the next holidays.

In the UK it had 555 stores, all of which were recently sold to Hays Travel, and in Germany it had close to 2,000 shops, although many of these were part-owned or franchises.

Earlier this month travel agency group Raiffeisen-Tours-Kooperation took full control of the Neckermann Reisen store network, acquiring the 50 percent of the group held by Thomas Cook Touristik GmbH.

What will this mean for Fuerteventura and Corralejo?
A product manager’s bookshelf
By: Julian Connor
Tags: Startup, Agile, Technology, Product Management, Books

Table reference — great to have at your fingertips

Product and design insight

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love V2 by Marty Cagan — A handbook for world-class product discovery and delivery ⭐

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri — Product Management principles for building an effective product organisation and culture ⭐

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal — A framework for building engaging products through the development of habits ⭐

Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky — A structured process to quickly and effectively look at improving your products and testing the hardest assumptions in 5 days ⭐

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by Jeff Patton — The definitive guide to user story mapping by its inventor ⭐

Design of Everyday Things, Revised and Expanded Edition by Donald A. Norman — A pioneering work on the application of cognitive science to design ⭐
Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startups in the World 2020
By: David Green
Tags: AI, Startup, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Tech

Photo by Robynne Hu on Unsplash

There are a lot of big things happening in small AI companies. Ranking them is hard when their areas of focus are so varied, so here is an alphabetized list of the most interesting, promising and high-impact AI startups in the world, as of 2020.

The list

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a document reader that uses AI that can read any document (from invoices to insurance claims and financial statements), whether printed or hand written, to extract key information, removing and automating time consuming and repetitive work. With Cinnamon, you might never have to skim a boring document again.

Diffblue

Diffblue is a company that uses AI to generate unit tests for Java software to solve the pervasive problems of under-tested code, testing bottlenecks and broken CI pipelines. This company received the largest Series A funding for AI in Europe in 2017, and was started by a computer science professor at the University of Oxford. Goldman Sachs and AWS use them, so they’ve got some big endorsements.

People.ai

People.ai is a tool for helping customer-facing teams meet sales targets with better metrics so they can more reliably predict. It does this by automatically capturing and syncing sales activity in a CRM, like an unobtrusive robotic personal assistant.

Terramonitor

Terramonitor is a platform that maps the globe using over 100 million images from otherwise unused satellite and remote sensing data, analyzed by AI. It’s basically the constantly-up-to-date Google Earth of the future, so GIS people should check it out.

DarkTrace

DarkTrace is one of the better-known security startups using AI. It protects companies against cyber-threats using autonomous responses similar to an organism’s immune system to keep operations running as expected. Their origin story is impressive: “Founded in 2013 by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge and government cyber intelligence experts in the US and the UK, Darktrace is recognized today as the world’s leading AI company for cyber security.”

Dataminr

Dataminr uses huge amounts of public data to predict emerging risk and high-impact events in real-time, such as natural disasters and extremist attacks. They’ve been valued at $1.6 billion — not a small amount.

Numerai

Numerai is more of a game than a business. It’s a downloadable database and tool that you can use to make a model to control their investments in a tournament. If you rank on the leaderboard, you win actual money (well, cryptocurrency). What’s their long term vision? “To manage all the money in the world with a decentralized network of autonomous AI agents,” so that’s interesting.
A Comprehensive Guide to Lewin’s Change Model
By: Warren Lynch
Tags: Startup, Agile Methodology, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Business Strategy

Organizational Change is a common thread that runs through all businesses regardless of size, industry and age. It is about the process of changing an organization’s strategies, processes, procedures, technologies, and culture, as well as the effect of such changes on the organization.

Our world is changing fast and, as such, organizations must change quickly too. Organizations that handle change well thrive, whilst those that do not may struggle to survive.

Lewin’s change management model is a framework for helping with organizational change which is divided into three steps that entails:

Unfreezing — Create the perception that a change is needed Changing — Move toward the new, desired level of behavior Refreezing — Solidify new behavior as the norm.

3 Step Lewin’s Change Template and Instruction

Lewin model are fairly obvious in that it’s the simplest model out there. This makes it easy to plan around, especially in organizations not accustomed to the technical mathematical models. It is still widely used and serves as the basis for many modern change models.

Present your Lewin’s Change Analysis with Online Infographic
The Pulse — Improving Parkinson’s Care 💪
By: Jonny Camara
Tags: Startup, Berlin, Parkinsons, UX, Digital Health

The Pulse — Improving Parkinson’s Care 💪

How can it be that April has passed already?! Time seems to just escape us as we work towards creating a product that actually works for people with Parkinson’s!

Parkinson’s Awareness Month 🧠

April was Parkinson’s awareness month and we saw so many cool campaigns and contributions from the community.

One of our favourites was the ‘Parkinson’s Is’ campaign from Parkinsons UK. It casts light on the diverse nature of Parkinson’s, building awareness through this well-curated video.

The stats that accompany the video are pretty eye-opening for those who aren’t familiar with Parkinson’s which is super effective in driving awareness.

2 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s every hour. Parkinson’s has over 40 possible symptoms. 87% of people with Parkinson’s have faced harassment and discrimination.

Building a stronger awareness of Parkinson’s helps in developing better community support for research efforts and trials. At a more individual level, it is key in improving understanding and crucially, changing attitudes towards people with Parkinson’s. We want more people to understand life with Parkinson’s disease.

A New Team Member 🎉

We recently welcomed our latest new joiner, this time to the data team — Hannah Woodbridge!

Hannah will be working on turning raw data into useful insights from which people can take action. That includes developing algorithms, working with motion data and giving medical significance to the information gathered. Interesting stuff! You can get to know her a bit by checking out the mini-interview here.

New App Sneak Peek 👀

Designing the app is an iterative process that requires a deep understanding of user needs. Milena has been leading the work of translating these needs into a product. As always, we want to keep you up-to-date with how the process is going. Take a look at some of these screens from the upcoming version of the app! The following weeks will involve testing these with users.
5-Step Enterprise Sales Process: Learn How to Navigate Mammoth Deals Like a Pro
By: Dan Martell
Tags: Enterprise, Startup, Deal, Sales, SaaS

I had recently started Spheric Technologies and decided to go straight to the heavy hitters.

We’re talking Fortune 500 companies like Johnson & Johnson, American Express and Procter & Gamble.

(guess the JFDI ethos was alive and well) 😉

And while I had an amazing team of coaches and mentors around me (and an endless supply of Grade A boldness) to carry me through those early deals, they were FAR from smooth.

But over a decade (and tens of millions in enterprise deals under my belt) later, I’ve refined my process into a simple 5-step system for navigating and eventually closing a high value enterprise deal.

While the intrinsic complexities and long sales cycles still aren’t for the faint of heart, this week’s episode will show you the most effective strategy for bringing clarity to the sales process while cutting down on sales cycles and frustration.

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At a high level, the process comes down to:

While each step is absolutely critical, nothing matters unless you can peg your solution against your prospect’s “Move Metric”.

Meaning, even if you do everything else right, there’s no deal to be had unless the outcome your solution provides can be linked directly to a priority metric on your prospect’s strategic roadmap.

It’s your job to both UNCOVER that move metric as early on as possible — and continuously remind all stakeholders how your solution specifically moves that needle forward better than anything else they might be evaluating.

Once again, navigating enterprise deals is an entirely different beast… but one that as a founder you NEED to be prepared to engage in when the right opp shows up.

Watch the full episode here and then drop me a comment letting me know your biggest challenges or concerns when it comes to locking down high value enterprise contracts.

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Dan Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and teaches startup founders like you how to scale. (Get the free 3 videos to grow your business here.) He previously created, raised venture funding for and successfully exited two tech startups: Flowtown and Clarity.fm. You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome.
LinkShare (Many problems one solution)
Tags: Startup, Prisma, Nodejs, Cybersecurity, React

# Problem

Ever tried storing your links in a way that could be centrally managed, ranked, topic centralized and moreover are community driven? neither did I. lol

I used to store my links for bug bounty reports and blogs in a git-repository, which was easy to store but difficult to search again for. As if the links I used to save got lost in that repository, so I came with a solution.

From git to LinkShare

So I have been working on a project, which could help categorize and share the links of blogs/videos/tools/News etc in a more organized, shareable and manageable way. Much like that of HackerNews but with a better UI :P (Hacker-news is great BTW, do check it out).

# Proposal

Wouldn’t an app like below aide your study for bug-bounty-hunting or security in general?

LInkShare in Action

# How it will work?

It would be a simple website where you could go and browse for reports based on Keyword, Type (You wanna look a video or report) or Tags.

This works on the model that user creates the link and then shares their contents link here, benefiting their views and contributing the website with the content on the topic of their expertise or finding.

So, In the starting it would be me and handful of people helping and curating lists much like that of BugBytes by Intigriti but once the user base grows the model would change to what I mentioned above. (fingers crossed)

Create a Link:

create link

Similarly you can create custom tags.

create custom tags.

# Uses?

You can easily come and look for links here, read them save them. You can check the reliability of the resource by the amount of up-votes and down-votes it has received.

# Tech-Stack?

The burning question…. Its built on:

Tech stack image

This is how the GraphQL schema looks like:

# Future?

I am not really sure. I use it with my friends. I might open sourcing it. Community can perhaps help me build this better and more viable and not to mention all the help that can be provided to broaden the audience base if it gains traction.

UI: This can use a lot of help, since the current UI is something I put together from a YouTube tutorial.

Backend: It’s built on Prisma and GraphQL both with amazing community. Although, the community has already been helping me with it. I can still use some further help. :)

You can follow the tweet discussion on this here. If you want to sponsor this project or contribute in any way feel free to DM me on twitter.

I hope this helps. :)
Why the mission of your company is so important!
By: Kevin Guilbert
Tags: Startup, Mission, Product

Before joining Sencrop 3 years ago, I was previously working in a digital agency and everything was nice there:

Challenging projects

Great colleagues & good company values

A strong relationship with the CEO of the company

But something was missing in my daily job! Every morning, I was asking myself why I woke-up & I was not able to answer this question. 3 years later, I know what was missing: a clear and empowering mission!

Mission, vision, Kezako?!

The vision defines why the company exists and the future it wants to build : it is aspirational, visionary, future-oriented and empowers your team.

The mission is the action-oriented version of your vision: how you plan to achieve your vision.

Both are most of the time mixed into a clear & comprehensive mission statement that explains why the company exists and what you’re building. For product-oriented companies, the mission/vision of the company and the product vision are very close.

Here are some famous examples of mission statements:

“To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” — Google

“To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy” — Tesla

“To connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.” — LinkedIn
Ready to Scale — Gainful Protein. Gainful is a San Francisco-based direct…
By: Gyan Kandhari
Tags: Startup, Entrepreneur, Pitch, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship

Investment Highlights

A Solution for a Real Problem. There is a multitude of protein supplements in the market, each composed of different ingredients purported to aid users in reaching their specific goals. However, nutrition facts can quickly become confusing and leave users overwhelmed. Gainful addresses these issues by simplifying the process of buying protein supplements through personalized formulations catered specifically for each users’ body type, exercise habits, dietary restrictions, and health goals.

Room for Growth and Industry Tailwinds. Gainful is situated in the global protein supplements market (including protein powder, protein bars, and ready-to-drink protein products). The market size was estimated to be $17.6B in 2019 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 8% until 2027. An increase in consumer health consciousness, rising popularity among younger cohorts (Gen Z, millennials) around supplements, and push for greater ingredient transparency are the main drivers behind industry growth. As a result, Gainful stands to benefit from the consumer trends while the expanding market presents a sizeable revenue opportunity.

Global Protein Supplements Market Size (2019A–2027F), in Billions

Favorable Business Model Characteristics. Gainful capitalizes on the consumer shift towards personalization by capturing key data points through an online quiz. Not only does the company capture and synthesize data to tailor products to each individual, but the same data can be used to personalize customer communications and drive engagement – ultimately increasing client stickiness and LTV/CAC.

In addition to personalization, the company employs a subscription-based model, delivering products to consumers on a monthly basis. Recurring revenue helps sustain top-line growth while providing increased revenue visibility; effectively empowering the Company to better handle impending business changes and more easily secure funding (from lenders).

Lastly, Gainful is expanding upon its product portfolio through protein bars, pre-workout, and other supplements. The expansion of the portfolio further diversifies the revenue stream and drives top-line growth. It is also worth mentioning that the inclusion of separate supplements (such as their pre-workout) does not result in cannibalization across their product lines as they inherently service different consumer needs.
Financial modelling for start-ups
By: Mark Owens
Tags: Startup, Finance, Vc Funding, Modelling

Yes, I’m bored of reading generic business blogs too. So this one is going to be aimed only at specialists — CFOs and FDs of fast growing (or intended to be) start-up businesses — if you’re not one of these, you may find it interesting or useful, but I won’t be offended if you don’t. [Go and read Rework by the Basecamp founders instead — it’s a great little book, especially to keep you from getting caught up in startup world hysteria.]

Why am I writing it?

Well, I think this is a topic that isn’t well thought about — business models veer wildly from the CEO’s google sheet jottings through to over-complex bank analyst style models that are unwieldy and largely uninformative. I do think there’s an art to getting a business model that you can maintain without too much effort, that your investors like / will give you money off the back of, and most importantly that actually guide your CEO’s mid-term decision making.

Why me?

Well, I don’t claim to be any more qualified than plenty of other CFOs, but I’ve got time and the inclination to sit down and write this, so there you go. I’ve built models for perhaps 20 startups, with those models often used to raise significant VC funds, and so have learnt a bit that I’d like to share. I’ve worked on B2C, B2B, marketplaces, SaaS businesses, from pre-revenue to £100m+, so generally think I have a good overview — FinTech being my one main gap.

The following posts will share as much as I am conscious of in my head — I’ve no need to ‘protect’ any commercial secrets, so I’m going to share and publish everything and see if people find it useful. Wherever I’m cagey, it’s probably due to client confidentiality.
Lyrics RHCP Outside
By: Indonesian Recipes Food
Tags: Startup, Songs, Lyrics

Am F C

How long how long will I slide

G Am F C

Seperate my side I don’t

G Am F

I don’t believe it’s bad

C G

Slit my throat it’s all I ever

Am Em

I heard your voice through a photogragh

Am Em

It thought it up it brought up the past

Am Em

Once you know you can never go back

G Am

I’ve got to take it on the otherside

Am Em

Centuries are what it meant to me

Am Em

A cemetery where I marry the sea

Am Em

Stranger things could never change my mind

G Am

I’ve got to take it on the otherside

G Am

Take it on the otherside

G Am

Take it on take it on

[Chorus]

Am Em

Poor my life into a paper cup

Am Em

The ashtray’s full and I’m spilling my guts

Am Em

She wants to know am I still a slut

G Am

I’ve got to take it on the otherside

Am Em

Scarlet starlet and she is in my bed

Am Em

A candidate for my soul mate bled

Am Em

Push the trigger and pull the thread

G Am

I’ve got to take it on the otherside

G Am

Take it on the otherside

G Am Em C x 2

Take it on take it on

[Chorus]

Em

Turn me on take me for a hard ride

C

Burn me out leave me on the otherside

Em

I fell and tell it that it’s not my friend

C

I tear it down I tear it down

Am F C G

And it’s born again

[Chorus]

Am F C G Am F

How long I don’t I don’t believe it’s bad

C G Am

Slit my throat it’s all I ever
Check out the decisive features of the best car rental script
Tags: Startup, Small Business, USA, Business, Entrepreneurship

Nowadays, starting a car rental business with the best car rental script is trending. Entrepreneurs showing a huge interest in the car rental marketplace since its demand is phenomenal.

According to the report, the revenue generated in the car rental business globally is US$59,518M. By 2022, the revenue generated would be $124.56 billion dollars. At present, the users engaging in car rental marketplace is 197M and expected to be 291.5M by 2023.

By this data, it is clear that the car rental business is one of the lucrative rental businesses to invest in.

But some of them are not aware of choosing the best car rental script for your car rental marketplace.

Here come the RentALL Cars — best car rental script is a suitable solution for your car rental marketplace,

RentALL Cars — Best Car Rental Script is the ready-made solution that helps entrepreneurs in scaling their own car rental platform globally. It is 100% customizable, built with advanced technologies, and helps reach the market quickly.

Features included in RentALL Cars — Best Car Rental Script

Advanced search filters

It is one of the most essential features that help users to search the cars according to their preferences, needs like location and also date, etc. This feature makes users convenient to process bookings faster.

Stripe connect

Guests can make a secure payment through Stripe that helps them do complete transactions quickly in a hassle-free manner. It provides more reliability for the users and is widely accepted in many countries.

Calendar & seasonal pricing

This feature in RentALL Cars helps to set pricing for a particular day or season. It also allows by selecting the specific days in the calendar and setting up the different pricing in the session price. Hence, it enables car owners to maximize their revenues in a short span.

Manage cars

This feature helps to edit, view, or upload listings according to the car types, descriptions, price without hassle so that the guests are able to search, filter according to their convenience.

Document verification

It helps to collect and verify all the required documents like driving license, insurance, and also vehicle-related documents. It is the most trusted concern for both the car owners and renters which will avoid illegal problems.

This feature helps to communicate with car owners and renters during the process of booking. It helps the users to track past conversations.

Manage reservations

It helps to track all reservations and control the process. With just a click, you can also just modify any booking details related to the booking date, time, and also related to reservations.

If you had an interest in getting our car rental script, then contact us at support@radicalstart.com and share your valuable feedback with us.
How to reduce risk and cost on your Software/Web idea
By: Johnathan Solorzano
Tags: Startup, Software Development, Coding, User Experience, Business

Preface

As we Solo Media started to grow so did our clients' needs and wants. We started with building standard websites (Information sites, blogs, etc). Now clients are asking for complex software and utility websites.

These projects without proper planning can lead to large liabilities on both the client-side as well as the development team delivering it. Trust me … I know.

Let me explain…

Software development is not much different than a house construction project. In theory and on a high level you have an idea of what you want to be accomplished and what you want it to look like. What you don’t know is what's behind the walls and the nuances and changes that happen on the journey to getting to your idea/vision.

Didn’t plan on that happening

If you don’t know … neither does the contractor. Experience similar projects helps, but proper planning to avoid these risks trumps all!

Planning

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four Sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln

As the visionary and owner of the software, you have to really sit down and think about this Web application.

As yourself these questions.

Pre-Question Google Doc Worksheet

Who will the users be? (admin, customer, wholesaler) What are MUST have features and WOULD LIKE to have features? What is your budget allocated for this project? — Low-end and High End? — When do you want this project completed? Do I have designs for this project? Will we use a template? Do I care about design ? Did I budget in a designer budget along with a developer budget?

These questions help you chip away at the large piece of marble, and what you’re carving out is your Minimum Viable Product; based on budget, features, and timeline.

User Stories

Now that you have the pre-planning done I want to walk you through how I’ve done user stories. A user story is basically a way to capture the description of a feature in software projects. Still not sure what a user story is? Read here

(ever wonder what these people are doing in stock photography? Now you know)

I use a spread sheet and divide up the different users. Some people like using sticky notes or a whiteboard with this spreadsheet. How you ultimately end up doing it is up to you!
Startups take note — Here’s why to use a logo maker for your next brand?
Tags: Startup, AI, Application, Graphic Design, Logo Design

Startups take note — Here’s why to use a logo maker for your next brand? TechGenyz Follow Feb 7, 2020 · 3 min read

Logo makers are not a new concept. The first time I used one to play around with some designs was back in 2004. The process was difficult, frustrating and the results were underwhelming to put it politely. Needless to say, I gave up on the idea of using an online application to design a logo.

Fast forward to 2020 and things have changed significantly. Online design applications have evolved into easy-to-use tools that produce quality designs. There are a number of quality tools out there but my personal favorite is the GraphicSprings logo maker. They offer over 5000 logo graphics and use AI to offer various layouts, color combinations, and previews.

Here are 4 reasons you should use a logo maker for your next branding project.

Selection

The biggest benefit of using a logo maker is that you can play around with thousands of designs. If you hire a graphic design company you will get 5 concepts if you’re lucky. Being able to choose from thousands of graphics allows you to find a design that suits your business perfectly. Here is a mockup I created in under 2 minutes using GraphicSprings:

Cost

Starting out any new venture is costly and time-consuming. To make things even more difficult, most early-stage entrepreneurs are broke and bootstrapping. This means that you have to stretch your budget when setting up your business. Platforms like UpWork give you the option to hire a freelance designer cheaper than ever before but when you’re starting out, even $200 for a logo can be too much. Logo makers have prices starting at $19 which is about as affordable as it gets.

Turnaround

We all know that time is money, and if you’re in the early stages of starting a business, it is unlikely that you want to spend weeks waiting on design revisions and meeting with designers. It is a good idea to take your time when creating a logo but logo makers allow you to have a new brand ready to go in less than 3 minutes. Now that’s fast!

Final Thoughts

Logo makers have improved greatly over the last ten years but that does not mean that these tools are a replacement for a real graphic designer. The logo is only the beginning of your brand. Once your company grows, hiring a designer to help with the overall branding strategy is a good idea. They can help you in expanding your brand into a full presence that conveys a message that speaks to your audience.
Finding Shortest Path using Q-Learning Algorithm
By: Dogacan Dugmeci
Tags: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Graph, Q Learning, Shortest Path

First I import necessary modules. I will use networkx library to define a Graph

Let’s define and visualize the graph

Q-learning algorithm involves an agent, a set of states and a set of actions per state. It uses Q-values and randomness at some rate to decide which action to take. Q-values are initialized and updated according to the reward and possible future rewards of an action taken.

Mathematically,

Q values can be calculated using the equation:

Q(s,a)<=(1-α)Q(s,a) + α(R(s,a)+γmaxQ(s’,a’)) where

Q(s,a) is the Q value of an action a from state s to s’

α is the learning rate

R(s,a) is the reward of doing action a from state s to s’

γ is the discount factor

maxQ(s’,a’) is the max Q value among all possible actions a’ in the next state s’

I want to find shortest path from 0 to 10. I need to attract walks to edges involving 10, therefore I give these actions high reward. In networkx library, G[node] gives all nodes which form an edge with the node.

Here I initialize Reward and Q matrix:

I set all rewards 0 except the actions arriving node 10. These actions are going from 8 to 10 or 9 to 10. Like Rewards, Q-values are initialized in a matrix. To eliminate impossible actions, their Q-values are set -100. For example, in the graph, it is not possible to go directly from 2 to 10, therefore its Q-value set as -100. Possible actions are initialized as 0. Let’s take a look at the R and Q matrices:

Now I’ll define a function which takes a starting node and returns the next node. It also accepts an exploration rate for random exploration. Otherwise, it chooses action according to the highest Q value of the possible actions.

After, we need a function for updating Q-value of the action taken

Now it is time to improve Q-values by starting at random nodes and making 50000 walk

Let’s check the final Q-values

Now we can find shortest path between 0 and 10, by choosing highest Q-value from Q matrix when deciding an action:

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory

https://everything.explained.today/Q-learning/

http://firsttimeprogrammer.blogspot.com/2016/09/getting-ai-smarter-with-q-learning.html

https://www.poilabs.com/
The Floyd Warshall Algorithm
By: Srajan Gupta
Tags: Dynamic Programming, Graphs, Samsung, Adjacency Matrix, Floyd Warshall

The problem is to find the shortest distances between every pair of vertices in a given edge-weighted directed Graph. The Graph is represented as Adjacency Matrix, and the Matrix denotes the weight of the edges (if it exists) else INF (1e7).

Input:

The first line of input contains an integer T denoting the no of test cases. Then T test cases follow. The first line of each test case contains an integer V denoting the size of the adjacency matrix. The next V lines contain V space-separated values of the matrix (graph). All input will be an integer type.

Output:

For each test, case output will be V*V space-separated integers where the i-jth integer denotes the shortest distance of the ith vertex from the jth vertex. For INT_MAX integers output INF.

This problem has been previously asked in Samsung.

The Floyd Warshall algorithm, also known as All Pair Shortest Path Algorithm, finds for all the vertices, the minimum cost of going from any one vertex to any other vertex. We do this by checking if there is a path via a particular vertex between two vertices, such that the cost of going via that path is smaller than the current cost of going from one vertex to another.

For example -

Suppose there are two vertices A and C, and the cost of going from one vertex to another is 10. Now let there is another vertex B, such that the cost of going from A to B is 2 and from B to C is 3. So the net cost of going from A to C, via B equals 5, which is smaller, so we update the current cost for A to B, to 5.

Formula for Floyd Warshall Algorithm — if M[a][c] > (M[a][b] + M[b][c]) then M[a][c] = M[a][b] + M[b][c].

The Time Complexity of Floyd Warshall Algorithm is O(n³).

A point to note here is, Floyd Warshall Algorithm does not work for graphs in which there is a negative cycle. In this case, we can use the Bellman-Ford Algorithm, to solve our problem.

The below-given solution is in C programming language.
A*: Adding Heuristics to Dijkstra
By: Rıza Özçelik
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Graph, Algorithms, Data Structures

A*: Adding Heuristics to Dijkstra

Introduction

Assume that we have a graph G with more than two nodes and pick two nodes a and b from this graph. The shortest path (SP) between a and b has the minimum total edge weight among all the paths connecting these two nodes. Such a path can be useful in many scenarios such as finding the fastest route in a road network where edge weights denote the time required to cross that road or finding the minimum cost needed to tranship a good from its source to its destination in a transshipment network.

Dijkstra’s Algorithm

Dijkstra’s algorithm is arguably the most popular SP algorithm that works in any graph with non-negative edges. It is a greedy algorithm that finds the shortest paths to all nodes until it reaches the target. It starts blindly from the source vertex and explores the graph from the closest nodes discovered until that iteration.

To find the closest nodes at each iteration, Dijkstra first assumes that all nodes are infinitely distant to the source. Then it updates the distance information (label) of the neighbors of the source node since it discovered a shorter path than infinity. It picks the closest neighbor as the new exploration node and updates its neighbors’ labels as the length of the path to that node from the source. If a node already has a label, then its label is updated only if the new label is smaller. Note that at each iteration, we are guaranteed that the SP from source to the exploration node is discovered since all the edges are non-negative and thus we will not be able to discover a shorter path in the future. With this fact, the label update continues until the target becomes the new exploration node and when it is stopped, the SP is found.

To exemplify, assume that a driver wants to drive to Rize from Antalya at minimum time. If we construct a graph from the cities of Turkey, where edge weights denote estimated crossing times of the roads, using Dijkstra with Antalya as the source and Rize as the target, we can find the desired path.

The figure below shows the iterations of Dijkstra for the mentioned graph. In the first iteration, we label neighbors of Antalya with edge weights and find that Izmir is the closest city. We mark Izmir with green and continue exploring the graph. We then mark Ankara, Adana, and Istanbul to find the path to Rize. Note that even though we find a path to Rize at the 3rd iteration, we do not stop, since we did not mark Rize yet. In the 4th iteration, we find a shorter path and on the 5th, we mark Rize. In the last one, we show the SP with thick edges.
Matplotlib into Django Template
By: Madhav Kothari
Tags: Matplotlib, Django, Graph, Developer, Python

Django+Matplotlib

How to show matplotlib graph into Django template —

Requirements -

Django — 2.2.5

matplotlib — 3.1.2

numpy — 1.17.4

How to install the above libraries -

pip install django==2.2.5

pip install django==2.2.5

pip install matplotlib

pip install matplotlib

First, create a project go to directory where you want to make your project. Then make project using this line — “django-admin startproject projectname”

Then go to the created project folder and check whether your Django server is running properly or not command be like “python manage.py runserver”

python manage.py runserver

Then go to your browser and put http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in the search section it seems like this —

Now make an app in the project folder — “python manage.py startapp yourappname” in my case my app name is matplot and project name is matdjango.

Now your directory looks like -

Project directory

Now go to setting.py and register your newly created app —

settings.py

Now go to urls.py in the root project file and redirect all the URLs to the app url —

project level urls.py

Now create a file name urls.py in the newly created app which is matplot in my case and make urlpattern for home page then make templates folder in the app level then make home.html file in it —

app level urls.py

Now go to views.py and make a function which render home.html and show graph of matplotlib-

app level views.py

Don’t forget to edit in home.html file —

home.html

Finally, run your Django server go to browser and output should be like —

Result

Finally, hope you will get the same result using the above instructions if you have any doubt put it into the comment section.