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Exchanging everyday items — on a peer-to-peer basis — is coming to the blockchain. And it’s all about the cost-saving efficiency of disintermediation. The project is building the first decentralized, P2P renting and pawning ecosystem through a pair of DApps known as SmartRent and SmartPawn. BizShake Today’s article is the last in a 5-part series all about BizShake. In case you missed the first 4 blog posts, here’s where you can find them: Part 1: The Honor of Becoming an NEP-5 Token Part 2: Team & Website Part 3: Tokenomics Part 4: Strategic Partnerships Can the project ride the tsunami of Security Tokens rushing towards the land of crypto? We’ll find out together. But first, let’s ensure we’re speaking the same language… Disclaimer : This is not investment or financial advice. I’m not a financial expert by any stretch of the imagination. Most information within this article is speculative and merely personal opinion. Always conduct your own research before contributing to any startup projects. Always remember that what you do with your funds is your decision to make. And if that decision proves too difficult for you alone, seek guidance from a financial professional. I may or may not receive a small allocation of tokens for creating this content. That said, I do my best to remain unbiased and fair. I try to avoid all FOMO and FUD and never wish to impart those emotions on my fellow crypto-heads. FYI : Certain countries are excluded from participating in BizShake’s upcoming STO. Don’t forget to check the (exciting!) terms and conditions page. No need to fret if your country is blacklisted; you’ll merely need to wait until BZS tokens are available on exchanges. Frozen in Time Before we get into the nuts and bolts of the BizShake roadmap, let’s have a chat about the general theories of these documents. Roadmaps are essential at the onset of any project, blockchain or not. The team needs to clearly define where it wants to go, followed by exactly how it plans to get there. But this is crypto — the space moves at breakneck speed. Teams who assess, adjust, adapt — test and test and test some more — can stay a few steps ahead of the competition. Point is, don’t view a blockchain startup’s roadmap as a static, unyielding object. Instead, look at them as a framework for what’s to come, which may very well need to morph into something entirely different by the time the first product takes flight. Case in point — although the current roadmap states otherwise, the BizShake STO is officially postponed while awaiting SEC approval for US citizens. A single development can have a domino effect on the entire map. That said, roadmaps are still necessary and highly relevant. Potential contributors need assurance that a project’s team has a clear vision of what they’re trying to accomplish. Without one, it’s tough to assess what a team feels they’re capable of achieving. Any startup is only as good as its team — they must earn the trust of those on the outside looking in. We’re nearing the half-way mark of BizShake’s 2-year forecast Happy Anniversary October marks a full year of progress for the BizShake project. I appreciate it when teams spend a good 12 months+ coding and testing, deploying and strategizing. The is live now — go ahead and check out the selection of useful items spread throughout Europe, although the selection has plenty of room for expansion. BizShake Alpha Let’s use the current ski bib as an example of how cost-effective this platform can be. As a parent who’s had to scramble to find last-minute kids’ gear for the slopes, I’m speaking from firsthand experience here. Snow days can get expensive Vacations in snow country aren’t exactly cheap. Between transportation for icy roads, lodging in mountain cabins, high-priced yet low-quality resort food, and all that specialized gear, snow games can drain your wallet quickly. Involving kids in these winter activities can add a whole new level of expense. Renting planks and boards is easy. The ski shop has no shortage of them. But a ski bib or snowboard pants? Not so easy to find as a rental. Plus, there’s a 99.99% chance that your little tyke outgrows whatever you put them in this year. Unlike us grownups, they can’t get away with wearing the same jacket for years on end. Which brings us to the whole point of BizShake — some things, especially on vacation, are much better rented than purchased. For a couple of bucks a day, so long as your winter wonderland is St. Petersburg, Russia, you can rent a ski bib and return it when the fun’s over. The alternative is one just so Li’l Slugger can wear it a handful of times, which is a downright absurd juxtaposition. buying As the platform matures, P2P asset exchange serves a larger population. Ideally, you’ll pull up the city you’re traveling to and discover a host of items on loan within the BizShake DApp. The Road Ahead Too big too fast can destroy the best of companies. Such a scenario doesn’t seem at play here. The team is taking a systematic approach by going from Alpha to Beta with their platform’s applications, before integrating a full marketing department into their organization. While some projects are content to make announcements of upcoming announcements intended to announce further announcements, BizShake doesn’t seem to be riding the hype train. The goal is to get the bulk of the platform up and running before starting to spread the message throughout the cryptosphere. And, as indicated in this series’ first article, BizShake already has the attention of the world’s millions of NEO followers because they chose to run their ecosystem with NEP-5 tokens. Opening the platform to the rampant capitalism & consumerism of America is vital to the project’s overall success. The market is far too large to ignore. Sailing into 2019 — assuming the SEC stops dragging its feet and grants the Reg. A+ classification BizShake already applied for — the project expects to realize some significant milestones. Aspirations include getting half of the platform’s six ‘Smart’ components fully operational — Dispute, Pawn, and Rent. Those last two are the lifeblood of the ecosystem and, considering the platform is already alive and growing, the team is on pace to hit their marks. Final thoughts… Having seen the platform in action, I’m looking forward to its full release. Take a look around your house or apartment and, most likely, you’ll discover plenty of items you rarely or no longer use. Well, now you can rent them out. Got yourself something durable? Rent it out enough, and you may very well collect more than you originally paid for it, assuming the BizShake ecosystem makes its way to your neighborhood. And, as you were collecting fees, visitors were getting a bargain. Can you say win/win? The BizShake project is well on its way to seeing widespread adoption. SEC Reg A+ clearance is an upcoming catalyst for growth. After all, it’s tricky to hire marketing and customer service teams if govt. interference is token-blocking your fundraising efforts. Once the legal team hacks through all the red tape, look for BizShake to be a strong contender in the blockchain niches of P2P as well as security tokens. DYOR BizShake has excellent potential to become a standout blockchain project. I like the industry they’ve chosen, and agree with how they plan to gain market share. But that’s just me — it’s essential for you to dig a little deeper into any project you may involve yourself with so you can formulate a unique opinion of your very own. If this 5-part series wasn’t enough reading material, feel free to read your way through the BizShake Website . And don’t forget the to discover more about the project and upcoming STO. BizShake Whitepaper 👇 👇 Get Social with Team BizShake Facebook LinkedIn Medium Reddit Telegram Twitter YouTube By the way… If you like what you read here and need help getting your crypto message to the masses, I’d love to hear about your project. Even if you just want to chat about your favorite projects, you’ll find me here: blockchainauthor at Gmail This article was created in exchange for a potential token reward through Bounty0x. *** BountyOx username = blockchainauthor ***

BizShake STO Review Part 5: Project Roadmap

The project aims to create the first decentralized pawning and renting ecosystem via a pair of DApps known as SmartRent and SmartPawn. BizShake This 5-part series will go over what makes BizShake stand out within the wave of STOs entering the cryptosphere. And in case you haven’t read them, here’s where you can find the other articles all about BizShake: Part 1: The Honor of Becoming an NEP-5 Token Part 2: Team & Website Part 3: Tokenomics Can BizShake capture some of the new Security Token business coming into the world of crypto? Let’s find out… but first, I’d like to ensure we’re on the same page… *Disclaimer : This is not investment or financial advice. I’m not a financial expert by any stretch of the imagination. Most information within this article is speculative and merely my own personal opinion. Always conduct your own research before contributing to any startup projects. Always remember that what you do with your funds is your decision to make. And if that decision proves too difficult for you alone, seek guidance from a financial professional. I may or may not receive a small allocation of tokens for creating this content. That said, I will do my best to remain unbiased and fair. I try to avoid all FOMO and FUD and never wish to impart those emotions on my fellow crypto-heads. FYI : Certain countries are excluded from participating in BizShake’s upcoming STO. Don’t forget to check the (exciting!) terms and conditions page. No need to fret if your country is blacklisted; you’ll merely need to wait until BZS tokens are available on exchanges. Extending the Team Partnering with key players in your industry is how good businesses transform into great businesses. And BizShake has already begun the process of securing them, which is encouraging since their STO is still several months away. The team has selected a handful of partners — including BountyOx and Diacron — and more are bound to emerge. We won’t cover every partnership here but three notable projects are most definitely worthy of an explanation… Keeping it in the NEP-5 family One ID to Rule Them All The true identity of the users is a pillar of BizShake’s ecosystem. If users can’t trust who they’re dealing with, the network will stall out. User assets are another critical component. BizShake needs big volume to thrive and grow. And, a reputation for mediating counterfeit merchandise won’t go over well. BizShake selected Ontology to address both of these important issues. Within the Ontology project’s ONTO app, users can create what’s known as an ONT ID. An ONT ID is a personal, blockchain-based identification mechanism. Put simply, it’s a means to centralize your identity and assets on the BizShake platform. Now, this partnership serves a number of purposes: BizShake users’ ONT IDs will be tied to everything they do within the platform. Whether buying or selling, lending or borrowing, every interaction and every asset you make available on the BizShake network is associated with an ONT ID. For assets, this has two main benefits: Clarification as to you own, and proof that you actually own it. what And on the money side of things, the network makes it easy to perform transactions. You see, Ontology’s ONTO app is also a wallet which currently stores ONT — the Ontology network’s native token. And just like NEO/GAS, if you stash ONT in your ONTO wallet, you’ll be rewarded with the network’s fuel: ONG. The main benefit here is the simplification of using BizShake DApps. There’s no need to bother with creating separate accounts. Because honestly, who needs another password in their life? Nobody, that’s who. ONT IDs adhere to international W3C standards. The orld ide eb onsortium takes the concept of ‘Digital Identity’ very seriously. The W3C is an international community working to establish standards for Internet activities. W W W C At least for now, their standards are the benchmark for acceptable practices. Team Ontology made sure their data-collection processes conform to W3C specs. And by upholding these standards, BizShake DApps have an inherent level of trust. If you’re in the know — you are now! — and appreciate what the W3C is all about, you’ll feel very safe interacting on the network. As you can see, BizShake’s decision to partner with one of the NEO blockchain’s most popular NEP-5 tokens was a wise move. Putting IoT on the blockchain Smart Tracking BizShake’s SmartCertify program is intended for assets on the higher end of the value spectrum. Any BizShake user — for a fee — can have an asset professionally evaluated and certified by a third-party. Assets entering the SmartCertify program will be recorded on the blockchain and tied to the aforementioned ONT ID. During an evaluation, the asset’s assessor will apply a tracking device. Now, these IoT devices and their associated software are made by Dotando. When BizShake users share an asset, they’ll both scan Dotando’s tracking device, using Dotando’s app to do so. Scanned tags reveal the asset’s relevant info and history on the BizShake platform. This guarantee of transparency sets everyone’s mind at ease when exchanging assets. Automating KYC and ICO compliance Getting to Know All the Customers In order to mitigate risk for platform contributors, BizShake is aiming for US SEC REG A+ status. Plenty of new crypto startups don’t bother with the US at all, but in some cases, the accredited whales are allowed in the pool. BizShake is taking a more self-disciplined approach. Realizing the US is a giant market not to be ignored, their A+ application will give the general public the right to participate. Legal requirements are a minefield beset with red tape. Starting the process as early as possible was in BizShake’s best interest. And to help expedite the process, BizShake employed the services of IdentityMindGlobal. KYC and AML are inevitable for any STO. I think the approach of letting an expert handle those details was a good choice. Some things are better left to others and I appreciate projects that pony up some capital to tackle tasks they know someone else can do better. Final thoughts… The BizShake project’s growing number of partnerships are nicely shaping the functionality of the ecosystem. The team has selected companies that perfectly align with what they’re trying to accomplish. By addressing the elements of legalities, regulations, and platform functionality, BizShake is setting themselves up for a positive outcome. Concrete, pre-meditated plans are a welcome sight in the crypto startup space. Not naming any names but a few build an app or DAapp then reach out to the community for ideas on what to do with it. In contrast, BizShake knows exactly what they want to do and the team is taking proactive steps to get the job done. While these initial partnerships are great, I feel there’s more on the horizon. Should the project choose to dabble in AI for improving the platform, they’ve got a few NEP-5 candidates to choose from. Even if the team feels their partner-gathering is complete, I remain excited about what BizShake wants to accomplish. Primarily because it’s one of the few blockchain projects I would actually use. I don’t want to trade the BZS tokens I plan to deposit in my wallet. No, I’d rather make them flow within the BizShake network. Visit the to discover more about the project and upcoming STO. BizShake Website And for your convenience, here are more BizShake project resources: Facebook LinkedIn Medium Reddit Telegram Twitter Whitepaper YouTube By the way… If you like what you see here and need help getting your crypto message to the masses, I’d love to hear about your project. Feel free to reach out to me here: blockchainauthor at Gmail

BizShake STO Review Part 4: Strategic Partnerships

giving them almost infinite control over reality. Many people including me are inspired by fictional geniuses who can do things impossible for simple people I can’t imagine a great developer who wouldn’t love Rami Malek’s character in Mr.Robot. The ultimate hacker who can beat the most powerful organization with the power of his mind — doesn’t that sound attractive? Of course, it does. …But the cruel reality is that there is no space for lone geniuses in there. Firstly, the real world contains so many different factors affecting the end result that it is completely impossible to plan everything. It is better to think of it as some level of randomness. It seems obvious but, still, in many complex situations many smart people start trying to calculate all pluses and minuses to come up with an ideal plan (coming up with a kind of brute-force search). «Even if I can’t plan everything, multi-factor analyses will give better results than using some rule of thumb» — sounds rational, right? This mindset is especially common among many developers. It’s not surprising that I myself have been adept at this kind of thinking as well. And here we come to the second reason why this mindset usually fails on the long-distance… Even if you don’t play Chess you probably hear something about openings theory and know that all great players use a predefined list of moves in the early stage of the game. Why to do that? The chess board has only 64 rows and often you have only 2–6 reasonable moves from the current position. Significantly less than in real life! Still, that leads to around 10^120 possible games and makes it impossible to solve chess by brute force with the human brain. Therefore, even a chess game with the lack of random factors and only a small number of possible actions at each stage is a problem that can’t be solved without using some heuristics (e.g. developing pawns in the early game). And if we take the real world, the situation is even worse… But more often than not, people underestimate the number of potential scenarios. And cause of that we make errors, blinded by the illusion of our planning ability. To fight this problem, the smartest people usually tend to think otherwise. They feel that they can’t know all the details. But if their decisions are made for a really strong reason and there are only so many small counter-arguments not to do so, it is probably worth it. Nassim Taleb perfectly described the underlying principle: «If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason» Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The same idea I met while reading about the moment when Steve Jobs was deciding whether or not to sell Pixar to Disney. From the perspective of the prosperity of both companies separately and together, there were a lot of reasons not to do that but only a strong one to continue this deal: in his eyes, Disney was also a great company and he understood that without Pixar Disney will probably stop to exist. He didn’t want the world to lose such a great company. Of course, there is a bigger context of this story: Steve Jobs already returned back to Apple and from a rational point of view it was obvious to sell Pixar to some good hands. That’s why the only question that mattered in this story was whether or not Disney was a good hand for that. That’s not the line of thought you can expect from ordinary people, right? Any other factors didn’t play a crucial role in this story, even together. Many other great people I have the pleasure of working with also tend to this line of thinking. Probably you’ve also met some of them. But they obviously couldn’t formalize this sort of thinking, couldn’t explain it. Especially all the great founders & businessmen use this framework on an intuitive level. That’s why many smart people who can think really fast usually neglect this line of thinking at first. P.S. By simple rules in this article I mean core principles that your decisions on the intuitive level. guide P.P.S. The short version of the idea I explain in this article is this: a) Don’t overestimate your planning abilities b) Try to find one big “yes” and one big “no” in any decision c) The big yes and no should be based on your own rules, keep doing them until you find that your own experience is wrong (be prepared to accept this fact at any time in your life) P.P.P.S. Simple rules you’re going to add to your thinking system should be backed by your own experience. If you’re going just borrow rules from the people around there is a big risk to misinterpret the rule. Remember that most people just don’t think about how to describe their behavior. Thus, if you ask them directly to do that, they will probably give you a misinterpretation. Also published here.

Why the Smartest People Live by Simple Rules

Feature Image: Zuck announcing Threads’ several first milestones on Threads itself As of 2:15pm Indochina Time on Friday July 7, Threads, the Instagram’s “Twitter-killer” app, has passed 60 Million downloads. I signed up & connected one of my secondary Instagram accounts to it just now to confirm, and that account was user # 60,614,427. In comparison, when I set up t at around 11am ICT Thursday July 6, about 5 hours after it officially launched in Asia, we were user #6,519,297. Our number would have been a bit lower if we were still in the US, the first region to roll out Threads. Zuck, of course, was . That means, in just over 48 hours since launch, the app had passed 60 Million users, officially crowning it the fastest app that reached this milestone. The fastest growing app in recent consciousness that was able to do something even close to it, was , which amassed . the official HackerNoon Threads accoun user #1 ChatGPT 1M users within a week post launch There will be more stories on HackerNoon about Threads soon, but I want to jot down a few thoughts on this high growth app, while it’s still new(ish). Twitter sucks (bad) right now; and people have been desperate for an alternative since Musk’s reign Twitter wasn’t perfect pre Elon Musk, but it wasn’t . The latest straw that broke the camel’s back for many people was Musk’s erratic decision to . Specifically, he rate limits the number of tweets not just for regular users to 600 tweets/day; but also for paid users (who pay Musk $8/month to get a verified checkmark next to their name) to 6000 tweets/day. His rationale was that this rate limit but I think it’s much simpler than that: he needs the money. “Free speech”, but only if you give me $8/month. Among Musk’s many terrible decisions that make Twitter the hellscape it is today, we have: the disaster it is today limit access to all Twitter & non Twitter users alike prevents AI companies from scraping Twitter data; Firing close to 75% of its staff (in multiple waves) in a largely undignified, cold-hearted manner Making the site unstable, largely unmoderated, and buggy, possibly due to the firing of many key staff with institutional knowledge Not paying many employees whom he let go, including In April of this year, they ex CEO Parag Agrawal, ex CLO Vijaya Gadde, and ex CFO Ned Segal. filed a joint lawsuit against him Scaring off enough advertisers due to the (in the name of free speech) that advertising revenue is reportedly unmoderated nature of Twitter 2.0 content down at least 59% Not making enough money on , after the disastrous first launch attempt that generated so many scams and impersonation attempts, . Since , it reportedly made under $50 Million. Together with advertising hovering around $1,8 Billion, . Twitter Blue subscription costing valuable advertisers & brands real money the relaunch Twitter’s YoY revenue post Elon is down 40%, from around $5 Billion pre-Elon Oh yes, . He was forced into it because he made a bad calculation . A “0 % interest rate” phenomenon you might say. . he wasn’t even going to buy the site in the first place overvaluing his Tesla stock $44 Billion USD isn’t cheap, even for the richest man on earth Reading stories about Musk’s handling of Twitter felt alarmingly similar to reading stories about the Trump’s presidency. Scandals after scandals. Bad decisions followed by worse decisions. It was anxiety and fatigue-inducing. So, naturally, people have been looking for a viable alternative ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter. But no platform ( , , , to name a few) was able to achieve mass adoption, until… Mastodon BlueSky Cohost Threads is not run by Elon Musk Look, I get it, a Twitter alternative from Zuck ( with of his own) sounds a little lame. It’s not due to just that, all of Zuck’s fraud history with European regulators. BUT. The bar is so low right now. And love him or hate him, Zuck WHILE AND . Simply put, the bar for people to like a social media app in 2023 is just, “not run by Elon Musk.” That’s why some people rekindled their hope for Twitter after learning that its new CEO will be , who is very respected in the advertising industry. Others go to great length to set up a server for their Mastodon instance (I haven’t). another billionaire multiple baggages even available in the EU right now knows how to run social media firing a lot of his staff not scaring over half of his advertisers Linda Yakarino Lately, Zuck has been entertaining the idea of challenging Musk in (lol). I think that was the first time since Cambridge Analytica that a meaningfully larger number of people might actually root for Zuck instead of Musk. It does take a worse billionaire like Musk to make Zuck look civil and worth rooting for. a cage fight The Metaverse is still a long shot Zuck, too, was fueled by desperation. made it clear that gone are the days of Instagram’s purchase (imho, Zuck’s best acquisition to date). With intesifying regulators’ scrutiny from all sides, it seems that he’s no longer allowed to gain monopoly on social media by simply buying up competitions. . He needed to hedge new bets, considering Facebook growth was severely capped, with no end in sight. The UK’s decision to block Meta’s acquisition of Giphy The UK specifically cited the fact that Meta already controlled over 50% of the advertising market in the UK as the reason to block Giphy acquisition In October 2021, Zuck announced the relaunch of Facebook as Meta (our parody ), . Ever since, he has burned billion of dollars into this pipedream ( , $10 billions in 2022, and planning to be about $100 billions over the next couple of years). here announcing that Facebook Instagram, and Whatsapp, are just products belonging to the parent company Meta reportedly Unfortunately, the Metaverse had not yet to pan out the way he hoped. . People’s avatars look awkward, cartoonish, and limited, nothing like the person they attempted to represent (see some ). The remains quite niched and largely unfriendly to the general public. Unlike the cash counter that is advertising money from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, Zuck’s Metaverse vision seemed to be quite far-off, and not exactly what the people want, or need, right now. At some point, none of the people in there had legs here Oculus Quest To add salt to the wound, earlier this year, Apple announced that it will . Expensive though it seemed, this move by Apple might effectively one-up and undercut Meta’s market share into AR/VR. And of course, the growth of generative AI, most notably with chat GPT, has very little to do with Zuck’s metaverse pipe dream. launch the Apple Vision Pro Threads is shamelessly Twitter-like, and the people running it are the first to admit it If you are one of the that are reportedly active on Instagram in 2023, signing up for threads literally takes 3 seconds, as you can sign in with your existing Instagram handle. Once there, you have the option to import your Instagram bio, profile picture, and link. You also have the option to follow anyone whom you already followed on Instagram, even before they join Threads. That way, once they do join, you would already be one of their followers. A “pre-follow” if you will. 1,4 billions users From there, it’s basically Twitter, without the baggage and all the added features. Adam Moserri, , and multiple public threads on , accredits Twitter for pioneering the “reply format”, which gives the same design treatment for comment as it does for the original post, creating a natural "public conversation”. This is vastly different than commenting on Youtube, Facebook, or Instagram, which gets a “second tiered” design treatment. in an interview his own account The things Threads does have: 500 character limit for each post Ability to retweet (called “repost”), and quote tweet (called “quote”) Ability to comment/reply A like counter, and a reply counter (both can be hidden) Search for users’ handle Way to go back and forth seamlessly between Threads and Instagram. My favorite is the “add to story” button that shares Tweet in a beautiful pre-designed manner As mentioned above, ability to bring most of your Instagram followers with you And of course, a lot of users already, since it’s basically Instagram but “not Twitter” Twitter The things it doesn’t have (I shared these in my first threads ): here A personalized or even just chronological newsfeed that surface only the people you follow An inbox (post all on main, i guess, lol) Ability to switch between multiple accounts Ability to search for anything else that’s not a handle Elon Musk =)) The weird quirks: Threads algorithm seems very random and buggy right now. I was reading an interesting thread, and the feed just refreshes itself. Since I cannot search and don’t remember the handle, that content is now gone forever from my feed. Annoying buzzing and endless notifications as default for some users Owned by . Meta In general, I don’t think it’s perfect, but I already like and use it way more than Twitter. And I assume a non-trivial percentage of Instagram avid userbase will feel the same. Threads might save Zuck. But it’s too early to tell. (or, in Musk’s word, “ ”). We’ll see how the case go. But at first glance, this is one of the clearest signs of Musk feeling threatened by this app in a real way that he never did with Mastodon or BlueSky (cofounded by Jack Dorsey, who remains a Twitter/X Corp ). Twitter Lawyer Alex Spiro already threatened to sue Zuck over stealing its “trade secrets” cheating is not okay shareholder But the true test will be users’ retention, and eventually monetization. In both Zuck’s and Monserri’s public statements, they emphasized the word “friendly”, implying their strong focus & commitment on content moderation. They also claimed that the platform is “decentralized,” as it will implement a protocol called ActivityPub. This means, users of Mastodon could potentially migrate back & forth between the two platforms, as well as users of any other platform that implements ActivityPub. It definitely is a smart move for optic. But given the history of Facebook/Meta’s handling of users’s data, I don’t think it will win over enough users for whom decentralization and privacy are their top concerns. The app will probably pass 100M users any day now. But a large percentage of the userbase will probably leave after the initial honeymoon period. What they do then, how careful they are with users data & integration (under extreme scrutiny from both regulators and reporters), what features they will add or kill, and most importantly, what users will they be able to convert to long term users, will determine the future of this app, and by extension, the legacy of Zuck. For now, I know that I have nothing to lose by posting on Threads directly to my Instagram stories, as I’m already too addicted to Instagram.

Threads might be Zuck's smartest business move since Instagram

থ্রেডগুলি ইনস্টাগ্রামের পর থেকে জুকের সবচেয়ে স্মার্ট ব্যবসায়িক পদক্ষেপ হতে পারে

Threads könnten Zucks intelligentester Geschäftsschritt seit Instagram sein

Threads podría ser el movimiento comercial más inteligente de Zuck desde Instagram

Les discussions pourraient être la décision commerciale la plus intelligente de Zuck depuis Instagram

इंस्टाग्राम के बाद थ्रेड्स ज़ुक का सबसे स्मार्ट बिजनेस कदम हो सकता है

スレッドは、インスタグラム以来のザックの最も賢明なビジネスの動きかもしれない

스레드는 Instagram 이후 Zuck의 가장 현명한 비즈니스 움직임일 수 있습니다.

Tópicos podem ser a jogada de negócios mais inteligente de Zuck desde o Instagram

Threads, Zuck'ın Instagram'dan bu yana yaptığı en akıllı iş hamlesi olabilir

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Threads 可能是扎克自 Instagram 以来最明智的商业举措

I find the Monty Hall Problem one of the most fascinating brain teasers, because it seems deceivingly simple. When Marilyn Von Savant, the woman with the highest IQ, answered this brainteaser correctly in 1991, she was inundated with over 10,000 letters from academics and Ph.Ds criticizing her “error”, only to be proven later that she was correct. The problem goes like this: The Monty Hall Problem You’re on a game show. There are three doors. Behind one of them is a car. Behind the other two are donkeys. You get to open one door, in hopes of getting the car! But then, this happens: (I reposted the Monty Hall problem from Adam Zerner’s post, https://medium.com/@adamzerner/monty-hall-problem-346bc6392b0a ) Take a pause and think of what you would do and why before going on to the next line. . . . At this point, most people see it as a 50 / 50 decision. The answer, however, is that you will win 2/3 of the time by switching. Code I wanted to try writing the Monty Hall game in Python and have it run 10,000 times to see if I really win 2/3, or around 6,667 times out of 10,000 plays, by switching. You can see the code . here Here are the results: After running it four times, the results were 6547, 6603, 6714, and 6738. All within 1% from the expected 6,667 wins (2/3 * 10,000 tries). The Intuitive Solution The easiest way to understand why that is, is to imagine that there is a car behind door 1, and goats behind door 2 and 3. When you pick door 1 initially, you will lose by switching. In the same scenario, had you picked door 2, the host would have shown door 3 with the goat, you would win by switching to door 1. Same if you had picked door 3. So 2/3 times, you win by switching.

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Hello, my dear friends! Today, I’d like to tell about the most effective instrument for any business owner/marketer. It happens that the marketing budget is very limited, and you need to increase sales. But how, if the budget is limited or not at all? Cross-marketing is an excellent tool for interaction between brands and companies. Simply put, this is an exchange of audience and advertising at the expense of partner companies that are not direct competitors. Although such a partnership is quite possible. To begin with, in order to choose the right partners, you need to clearly define and answer yourself the main question: Who has an audience that can buy goods from us and from them, but at the same time the product/service is not like ours? Remember! The most important element of cross-promotion is the choice of a partner since the success and effectiveness of the campaign depends on the right choice of a partner. When choosing a partner, you must be guided by several criteria: Partners should not be competitors. Partners must have a common target audience. Partners must be in the same price segment. For example: SPA. The target audiences are women/girls. And young people who buy gifts for girls/women in the form of certificates. Who has the same audience, but at the same time it is not a SPA? Flower delivery. Absolutely the same audience. Then you need to find them and analyze their community: Check out their social networks. Check for bots among subscribers. To analyze the publications — we need those who at least somehow leads the community. This is already 50% of success. Before you spend your time and energy on joint solutions for cross-marketing, check their business at all. Call the specified numbers or check its availability in Google maps. What to do next? Once you have decided with your potential partners, you need to contact them and offer to hold a joint competition. We make the most simple conditions, both for partners and for the audience. Three small details: Like and subscribe it will be enough. Make the contest short in time. 3–5 days will be enough. Do not make a lot of conditions. Do not overload your audience. Then we should place a contest in our groups and ask the partner to do the same. After the end of the competition summarize the statistics. You can create multiple cross-promotions. Pro Tip: Advantages of cross-promotion: You can save your advertising budget; Increase your sales without huge expenses; Increase your customer database; Availability of expensive types of advertising (especially important for small businesses); Add the partner’s logo with a link to his website, and he, in turn, will do the same; Brand recognition. Cross-promotion forms In this case, companies, as a rule, indicate their partners in their promotional materials, and sometimes they also make joint promotional materials. For example, Calgon antiscale was mentioned in many commercials of washing machine manufacturers. Joint advertising campaign. They can be realized both in the form of granting discounts to partners’ clients and in the form of a single discount club uniting many partners. For example, some airlines implement a joint bonus program with hotels. Joint discount (bonus) programs. As in the case of a joint advertising campaign, partners unite their efforts in promoting their companies (products). For example, the companies Opel and Mango (women’s clothing) held a joint presentation, during which a new collection of clothes and a new car brand were presented. Joint promotion. Also, remember to use ➡ tools to analyze and manage your social networks. Help each other, increase sales! Good luck!

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In the past year, we launched multiple AI-based products. With a strong community of more than 25,000 registered users for our APIs and plugins, we are evolving every day. A persistent need that we uncovered from engaging with our community is — how can I make sense of the 1000s of customer feedback data quickly? Between then and now, we were ideating and experimenting with a SaaS tool that can automate the task of analyzing customer responses. We wanted a solution that works in the world’s favorite format — EXCEL! We started building this product in the month of July 2018 and after multiple iterations, we are pleased to announce our Automated Survey Analysis tool — which can quickly analyze large sets of open-ended verbatim comments and find actionable insights that can further your business. SmartReader, You can access SmartReader from . here In this post, we will show how to use ParallelDots SmartReader to quickly analyze a large corpus of open-ended verbatim comments and make strong, data-backed decisions. Getting Started with ParallelDots SmartReader To get started, Sign Up for a free ParallelDots account from (if you already have an account then please login from ). Upon filling the form on our website and after verifying your email, you can directly to your SmartReader dashboard. Please store account credentials in a secure location as unauthorized access to your account will result in early exhaustion of your quota. In case you have lost your password or if you feel someone else might have access to it, please immediately change your password. here here log in Using the SmartReader tool — A step-by-step guide Once you will log in to your dashboard you need to follow the below steps to start building your ! first model for FREE The first step is to click on create your name your project or ‘Model’. The second step is to upload a CSV file containing the data which you want to classify. Next, you need to select the column name which contains the data to be classified. Finally, our algorithm will be trained on your data and it may take around 10–15 minutes for this step to complete. You can close the tab or carry on with other tasks. Once everything is trained properly, you will get a list of topics fetched from your data. You can click on any of these topics to get the keywords recommendations which define those topics (Very critical step, please review the recommended topics and their associated keywords and add/delete them if necessary). Define your custom categories and tags to structure your text data now. Test the results on a sample from your data to check the quality of the classification, and revise the tags until the results are as expected. There will be an input box at the bottom where you can enter a text and check the quality of the classification task. Remember to provide as many sub-topics as you can! Once you are happy with the topics and keyword combinations, you can download the results which will have sentiment, emotion, and keywords apart from categorizing your verbatims into the categories. API access will be released soon. In a single downloaded excel sheet, you will be able to get Sentiment, Emotion, and Keywords and binary score to each category of the review. You are currently subscribed to the Free tier of service where you can train up to 5,000 rows of text and download up to 1,000 rows. If you are happy with the results and want to do the full-fledged analysis then please upgrade your account by clicking on the upgrade button on the dashboard and select the plan of your choice. Listing down the plan’s details below: — You will be able to create up to 3 models in this and will be able to train and download analyzed data up to 20,000 rows in every model. Advanced — You will be able to create up to 6 models in this and will be able to train and download analyzed data up to 50,000 rows in every model. Pro — If you need to train and analyze more rows then please . Enterprise contact us SmartReader can be a powerful and cost-effective way to start adding cutting-edge intelligence to your analytics of customer feedback, survey analysis etc.. SmartReader lets you create 1 model, train 5,000 rows and download 1,000 rows of data from your CSV in every 30-days from the date of your sign up for free without giving your credit card details. We hope this will allow you to understand the different functions provided in the product and understand the use-case before upgrading to one of our paid plans for large-scale usage. Please write to us at in case of any queries or feedback. support@paralleldots.com Read about recently launched pricing plans . here We hope you liked the article. Please for a free ParallelDots account to start your AI journey. You can also check demo’s of PrallelDots AI APIs . Sign Up here You can read the original article . here

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Before we begin, you may be wondering: What is ? NEO (formerly Antshares) is a Chinese-based blockchain which uses instead of to achieve consensus. I know I’m throwing around big terms, but simply put, NEO nodes/servers will be way more eco friendly than its competitors! Read more about this . NEO proof-of-stake* proof-of-work here In addition, NEO’s can be written in any language! It currently supports C#, Java and Python, with plans to support Javascript, C and Golang in the , lowering the barrier of entry for developers looking to step foot into smart contracts. For comparison, Ethereum created its own language, Solidity, for contract development. smart-contracts future Hopefully I’ve already convinced you to get your hands dirty with NEO, but if not, you may want to check out articles by my dear friend, who wrote about how he discovered cryptocurrency, block-chain technology, and the NEO platform! Nathan Mukena As Nate covers the big pictures, this article will take us down to the nitty-gritty! We will show you how to set up a dev environment, build a private for you and your friends, write/compile your first smart contract and even how to create a React App to interface with your newly deployed contract!~ network Excited?! Lets begin - Building a smart-contract on a blockchain platform can be a daunting task. The first step: Set-up your environment! new We will focus on keeping costs down, installing the NEO-python CLI, running our own block-chain private network via AWS and deploying out very first contract!~ Check out for some more in-depth guides! Alex Guba Allow Linux subsystems on your windows machine! Step 1: Open and use the following commands_:_ Windows PowerShell Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux restart + Start up the Ubuntu environment Step 2: Download Open up the and initiate Ubuntu_:_ command prompt ubuntu *set up your root username/password install python 3.6.5, run these commands on Ubuntu: Step 3: sudo -i apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa apt-get update apt-get install python3.6 python3.6-dev python3.6-venv python3-pip libleveldb-dev libssl-dev g++ installing NEO-Python Step 4: open up a new , and clone the neo-python project: command prompt cd <storage location>git clone t https://github.com/CityOfZion/neo-python.gi go back to the : Ubuntu terminal cd /mnt/<drive+storage location>/neo-pythonpython3.6 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activatepip install -e . run the NEO-Python prompt ! Step 5: (from Ubuntu) np-prompt you are now connected to the NEO network! Next week, we will look into creating a network where you and your friends can connect and deploy your first smart contract. public private Check out the project I’m currently working on! is a marketing platform for local business, generating engagement through small activities and rewarding users with cryptocurrency they can later spend on these stores. Nodis.io setting up your own private NEO network on AWS. Next week’s guide:

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