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, our upcoming game, is set to introduce a new map, the Festival Map. Nearly Friendly Tribes This map is the second in our series, following the first map, , which had a lot of hiding spots. the Parking Lot Although we were happy with the parking lot map, we already intended to provide players with more options and variety, so we began creating the Festival Map. The Festival Map was inspired by music festivals from around the world. We aimed to create a map that captured the essence of these festivals, where people worldwide gather to celebrate and enjoy music. We focused on creating a vibrant and exciting environment for players that reflected the cultural diversity of the tribes in our game. Each team spawns on opposite sides of the map, with one near the stage and the other near a wooden hut on the opposite side of the map. The map is set at night, and numerous lights illuminate it. The map's pinnacle is the massive stage on one side, similar to those seen at most music festivals but versatile enough to serve as a stage for every music genre for the current and future game characters. The stage offers the player a significant advantage and a clear shot at the enemy spawn, but it is also a high-risk, high-reward location since players are most expected there. The open area in the middle of the map is where we anticipate the most action. Although it is an open area, there are a few objects like rocks, but not enough to be a good hiding place. This design choice discourages camping and helps the game be more fast-paced. On each side of the open space, there are also small wooden huts with small medic kits that provide a little HP restoration. To enhance the overall map experience, we drew inspiration from real-world music festivals, as previously mentioned, to create the ambiance of a live music event outside of big cities. The surrounding mountains, trees, and bushes provide a natural and scenic backdrop to the gameplay, compensating for the lack of hiding places in the map's center. The Festival Map offers players a unique and exciting gameplay experience that reflects the game world's cultural diversity and vibrancy. Wrapping Up Finally, the Festival Map is a one-of-a-kind addition to Nearly Friendly Tribes that promises an exciting and challenging gaming experience. The map captures the essence of the game's main theme with its emphasis on cultural diversity and live music events. We hope that players will enjoy exploring this new map and coming up with innovative strategies to outsmart their opponents. As we continue to develop the game, we look forward to introducing even more maps that offer players new challenges and opportunities for adventure. Stay tuned for more Nearly Friendly Tribes updates on our and , and start preparing for an unforgettable gaming experience! Discord Telegram

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This story is a part of of interviews. The series is intended for tech professionals contributing the most insightful Hacker Noon stories to share more about their writing habits, ideas, and professional background (and maybe a hobby or two). Hacker Noon's Meet the Writer series If you too would like to start contributing to Hacker Noon, . you can do so here So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. I am Roxana Murariu, a Romanian Web developer living in Dublin with my family. Interesting! What was your latest Hackernoon Top story about? The article, , was about metaphorical thinking. I wrote about the pervasive usage of war metaphors to describe the current pandemic situations, how we use metaphors as instruments for creativity and how metaphors express social models. Metaphors are Water: The Hidden Power of Thinking in Metaphors Do you usually write on similar topics? If not, what do you usually write about? I write about parenting, self-improvement, and tech on . I crosspost relevant articles to HackerNoon. my blog Great! What is your usual writing routine like (if you have one?) Depending on the topic, an article can take from two hours to 20-30 hours of researching, writing, editing, and formatting. I do this work across weeks as I have multiple drafts opened at any moment (for example, now I have around 35 current drafts). These drafts grow organically. Whenever I come around to an interesting concept, I either note it in a specific draft or open a new one. I read most of the articles from and to absorb good habits about writing. What suits me best is to do a little bit of work every day. This work does not necessarily involve writing, as I research extensively for some articles. the Writing Routines website Mason Currey's books I write my articles in Microsoft Word, edit them with Grammarly Premium, read them aloud to catch errors, and then I leave them alone for at least a night. About the editing part, I have no issue cutting whole paragraphs if they don't help the article ( , as William Faulkner wrote). Another quote about writing I follow is by William Zinnser from his extraordinary book : "You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive." "in writing, you must kill all your darlings" On Writing Well Writing gives me great joy, as it is the perfect outlet to recharge after an intensive day at work. Being a writer in tech can be a challenge. It’s not often our main role, but an addition to another one. What is the biggest challenge you have when it comes to writing? I have drafts with tens of pages (anything from 30 to 50 pages) of unedited content, with a melange of Romanian and English, as I added my ideas and research notes from previous weeks. Every time, with no exception, when I open these heavy drafts, I sigh and tell myself: why do I even bother? What original thoughts can come out of this? In time, I learned to see these distorting questions as my cue to simply start working and as a challenge to condense the complex knowledge from those drafts into eight or ten minutes worth of reading. What is the next thing you hope to achieve in your career? I'm trying to start a business with my husband to have a sustainable income from it. Our first project is a narrative-driven fantasy role-playing game with collectable card elements. This project nurtures my creative writing side as I develop the characters, dialogue, lore, and quests of the game. Wow, that’s admirable. Now, something more casual: What is your guilty pleasure of choice? is a fantastic low-carb ice cream brand. Oppo Do you have a non-tech-related hobby? If yes, what is it? Children's books! Thanks to my daughter, I discover new children's books quite often. Rich topics and mindful conversations are pouring out of these books, from emotional literacy skills to stories about friendships, bullying, death, diversity, inclusion, religion. And did you know that Dr Seuss, in his , knew precisely how to solve one of the most significant programmer's puzzles, naming a variable? Look no further than the muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle! Fox in Socks What can the Hacker Noon community expect to read from you next? Tech essays ( and the future jobs of the 21st century), a new series about debunking science myths, and more. the Polanyi's paradox Thanks for taking time to join our “Meet the writer” series. It was a pleasure. Do you have any closing words? Thank you for having me. People crave meaning and belonging. Thus, we craft our identities based on our tribes. Nowadays, we live in a world more divided than ever before, as we have access to social media applications that hold a wealth of choices for tribes. This leads to virtual social bubbles and echo chambers where our biases are distorted and amplified because engaging with social media algorithms is autocatalytic (the process feeds itself). To break free from this process, I often question and try to change my biases and assumptions. I also regularly read an essay written by Paul Graham on . So, I would like to end this interview with a question: when was the last time you changed a deep-held belief? keeping our identities small This story is a part of of interviews. If you too would like to start contributing to Hacker Noon, . Hacker Noon's Meet the Writer series you can do so here

Meet the Writer Roxana Murariu: "We Craft our Identities Based on our Tribes"

I make no pretence that I am a generalist and get bored quickly. I have written before about how this sometimes makes you feel left out, or worse, an idiot who has wasted their life. I want to explore this topic in more detail, and that of ‘tech tribes’, that I feel it relates to. Outsiders no more I think it’s accurate to say that many of us working in tech, at least those of us who have been for some time, grew up as outsiders to the mainstream. For many years our choice of interest and work was generally regarded as the domain of awkward ‘nerds’, when ‘nerd’ was a term of vitriol. In the past few years us ‘awkward nerds’ have been increasingly joined by those who would have been put off by this image. In an ultimate twist of irony, likely some of those who used to make our lives hell when we were younger. This is because the tech sector is booming, technology is king, it’s largely profitable, pays well and never stops demanding talent. In short, (for the time being) we won. And the previous winners want in on the game of those they called ‘losers’ before. A lot of these points could do with further explanation, dissection and analysis, but that’s not the place of this post and maybe not me. What I want to focus on is how this has affected us. Tech Tribes We may choose to deny it, but breaking into tribes, gangs, teams, clubs or groups (along whatever divisions) is human nature. As intelligent people we think we don’t do it, but we do, and we try to make excuses and intellectual arguments for what is basically joining a gang. It’s a defense mechanism, we felt isolated and different as youth, so forming into strongly identifying groups gives a strength in numbers that is comforting. Peruse a forum or reddit thread or sit in a room of tech enthusiasts and you will see it. My Linux distribution is better than yours, because… My text editor is better than yours, because… Your choice of programming language is dumb, because… And these are tame examples, at the extreme end these attitudes have manifested into controversies like gamergate and the general denigration of minorities in the tech world. We like to pretend that these arguments are justified and backed by reasoned, informed experience or knowledge. Sometimes they may be, but most of the time it’s plain and simple posturing. A modern equivalent of squaring up your chest to a rival. This is all fine in principle, as I say, it’s human nature. If you care so much about something to get involved in such a heated discussion, then good on you, most of the time. When it’s not OK is how you treat people who don’t share this opinion. There are those who will have an equally strong opinion that is contrary or different and will either never associate ‘with the likes of you’ or will enjoy the challenge of trying to change your opinion. But it does not excuse treating someone badly because they don’t share an opinion with you. More subtle than this is the way people who don’t care, or are more pragmatic are treated. At the more ‘geeky’ conferences (such as FOSDEM) you see this all the time, groups swarming off to their tribe of choice to seek a bit of self-congratulatory confidence boosting. When you’re asked which tribe you identify with and you don’t identify with any because you have a more broad range of interests, it can be isolating and lonely. When everyone vanishes off to their ‘project x’ dinner or drinks that you knew nothing about, but might have had something to contribute to, it feels a lot like those cold dark playgrounds of your youth all over again. Having a general interest in lots of things amongst some more extreme tech people is often seen as a bad thing. Surely you must have an opinion, you can’t have a balanced view of everything, come down on the side of something! Maybe I am indecisive, in fact I am. Maybe I fear committing myself to any one thing and use it as an excuse to flit from project to project. But there are a lot of people like me, especially beginners who haven’t formed an opinion yet. Alienating them from day one is not a sustainable approach to project growth. To these same groups it can also come across as snobbery or over confident and as success grows in the tech world, these attitudes are increasing. Not only do we think we are right, we feel we have increasing evidence to prove it. Lonely Chinchilla Cultural Differences I am trying hard to not make this post sound like a rant because I sometimes feel left out. In every situation when I have experienced these attitudes or been ignored, I try to step back, take a balanced and objective look at things and keep being friendly. But you know what, generally being the one who approaches people, instigates conversations and tries to engage with others gets exhausting. I have noticed some cultural differences between European events and events in the USA and Australia. Especially at events in the USA, where I was rarely left alone in a room of strangers for longer than 5 minutes before someone would approach me and introduce me into their circle. At European events I can stand in a room alone for an hour and few will make a move to greet you. It’s hard to say whether relationships made at European events may end up being more meaningful over US events. That’s a difficult theory to test. On the flip side, I find that US attendees at events are far more geared towards personalities, expecting you to have heard of someone they mention. Maybe this is just a different method of forming ‘gangs’ amongst groups. So What? I’m not sure what my conclusion or outcome to this post is. Despite being offended by many attendees at events, I am trying to remain open minded and positive on this issue. I guess all I am asking/saying is that when someone approaches you who doesn’t have an opinion you share, be courteous. They are trying to understand why you have formed your opinion and why you are passionate about something. Help them understand it, but don’t cast judgement on why they haven’t formed the same opinion (yet). When you see someone struggling to fit in, remember those times in your life when you were rejected or ignored and how you felt. It wasn’t great was it? And finally, remember that treating someone nicely might help them agree with (or at least see) your opinion and welcome a new contributor into your community. Podcast All of the Weekly Squeak posts are accompanied by a podcast where I go more in-depth into the topic, subscribe here or listen to the individual episode to the left.

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প্রেস্টিডিটেশন ! প্রেসিডেন্ট বিডেনের এনার্জি বুম, দ্য সোপ টু সার্বেরাস এবং স্টেইনের আইন

Taschenspielereien! Präsident Bidens Energieboom, die Beschwichtigung von Cerberus und Steins Gesetz

¡Prestidigitación! El auge energético del presidente Biden, la concesión a Cerberus y la ley de Stein

Prestidigitation! Le boom énergétique du président Biden, la solution à Cerberus et la loi de Stein

प्रेस्टीजिटेशन! राष्ट्रपति बिडेन की ऊर्जा उछाल, सेर्बेरस को रियायत, और स्टीन का नियम

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요술! 바이든 대통령의 에너지 붐, 케르베로스의 Sop, 그리고 스타인의 법칙

Prestidigitação! O boom energético do presidente Biden, o golpe para Cerberus e a lei de Stein

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Newton’s Laws in Society: How Social Forces Move Physical Bodies

সমাজে নিউটনের আইন: সামাজিক শক্তিগুলি কীভাবে শারীরিক দেহগুলিকে স্থানান্তরিত করে

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Las leyes de Newton en la sociedad: cómo las fuerzas sociales mueven los cuerpos físicos

Les lois de Newton dans la société : comment les forces sociales déplacent les corps physiques

समाज में न्यूटन के नियम: सामाजिक शक्तियां भौतिक निकायों को कैसे स्थानांतरित करती हैं

社会におけるニュートンの法則: 社会力がどのように物体を動かすか

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Nigeria! Giant of Africa, as she is fondly called. It is the most populous black country in the world, with over 200 million people, a teeming youth population, and . That's about 100 million, mostly tech-savvy young people all over the internet struggling to wrest some money from the famed riches of cyberspace. It's no wonder the country is well known for internet fraud, with a world-famous fraudster from Nigeria named Hushpuppi recently jailed by the US government for swindling numerous Americans off millions of hard-earned dollars. While internet fraud has cast a bad light on Nigerians online, this single story must not be allowed to take root, however, because Nigerians have also found ingenious ways to use the internet constructively with world-reaching effects. over 50% aged from 15 to 60 years For example, are well recognized in the content creation industry with many well-know ones like Mark Angel, Emmanuela, Sabinus etc. having millions of followers from around the world whom they routinely entertain. Nigerian music has also dominated the global space in recent years, with the internet playing a critical role in this rise. Nigerian music has dominated Africa since the 2010s, but recently, Nigerian artists like Burna Boy, Rhema, and Ckay have released colossal global hit songs like Last Last, Calm down, and Love Nwantiti, respectively, reaching hundreds of millions and even billions of streams. This was only made possible through online streaming and video platforms like Spotify, YouTube, and TikTok. Nigerian comedians A relatively recent technology known as cryptocurrency has hit the internet, and Nigerians have not been left behind. The country was in crypto adoption around the world. This, of course, can be traced back to the country's relatively backward financial system, with Nigeria recording numerous economic crises over the years. happened just before the 2023 elections in the country, where the Nigerian Naira was not even available for people to withdraw. Basically, there was little cash in circulation, and protests erupted in Banks, with people demanding to withdraw the money they had deposited so they could handle day-to-day expenses. This cash shortage lasted for several weeks, and millions of Nigerians began adopting alternative financial systems for Nigerian banks. Through this crisis, a little-known Crypto trader in the country known as would rise to fame and fortune by introducing an app for financial transactions that completely circumvented the Nigerian banking system. Blord would also go on to introduce a crypto exchange company called Blord Group in the country to convert cryptocurrency to Naira. Many Nigerians adopted Cryptocurrency during this financial crisis. recently ranked second A particularly crazy financial crisis Blord What you should know about Nigeria is that even though it is a very gifted country with lots of natural and human resources, it is run by a very corrupt government with notable ethnic biases. This has created widespread poverty in the country, with most of the gigantic 200 million people in the country left to fend for themselves anyhow they can. But the youths have taken up Agency as autonomous individuals battling against classist and ethnic divides, plus a corrupt, powerful government with dictatorial tendencies to create comfortable lives for themselves as sovereign entities who would not meekly surrender to a British-imposed country that seems determined to keep them down. This Nigerian dream has united beautifully with the vision of cryptocurrency, which basically serves as a democratized financial system that will create a level playing field for anyone around the world to make money. This article dives deeper into the possible role of autonomy, Crypto, and DAOs in getting Nigerians out of poverty. Tribalism and Classism in the Nigerian Government Nigeria is a multi-ethnic country with about 250 different ethnic groups. However, there are three main ethnic groups by population: the Hausa-Fulani in the Northwest, the Yoruba in the South West, and the Igbo in the South East. These three ethnic groups have dominated the government of the country since it gained independence from the British in 1960. However, was fought in 1967, with the Igbo of the Eastern region trying to break away from the country due to an ethnic crisis. The Igbo lost the war and have never produced a president to date, with the Mostly Muslim Hausa Fulani dominating the government at that time. Hence, there's a lot of ethnic discrimination in Nigerian politics with the Igbo, who number up to 40 million, and other Christian groups, with tens of millions of people mostly kept away from the presidency of what is supposed to be a democratic country. This discrimination in government has far-reaching economic impacts as the government of the day often favors their region in resource distribution. So, Nigerian Christians are often at a political disadvantage. a bloody civil war Classism is another major factor in Nigerian politics, with the mega-rich corrupting the voting system with their money and routinely rigging elections to maintain their hold on power and maltreat the poor (who are the majority) however they see fit. Hence, poor people in Nigeria who bear the brunt of the suffering hardly have a way to fix the country since their votes may not even count. This has led to a lot of crime around the country, with fraudsters, kidnappers, cultists, and sex workers being rampant. Nigerian Government Versus Autonomy The , through a federal system like the American government with executive, legislative, and Judiciary, does not practice true federalism. Simply put, the executive, who is led by the president, is too powerful, and through widespread corruption, they can control the lawmakers and judiciary, who are supposed to checkmate their excesses. This is also true for the state and local governments, who are often arm-twisted into doing the will of the federal government because the federal government has overall control of resources in the country. Hence, the Nigerian government is often anti-autonomy! Nigerian government Many groups have risen in the country to demand more autonomy and resource control at the regional level, but the federal government usually puts them down by force. This is mostly against the will of the people who always find ways to fight against the tyrannical control of the federal government. Basically, Nigerians want more autonomy to utilize their resources for a better life, as the federal government doesn't seem capable of delivering basic amenities like good roads, running water, and electricity. This has remained a constant cause of conflict in the country, with many lives lost. Nigerian Government Versus Wealthy Citizens As with any tyrannical system, the government in Nigeria seems determined to keep the people poor; hence, they are unable to fight for their rights. This is more rampant in the North, where despite hundreds of millions of Naira being allocated to education yearly. [Nigerian minimum wage](https://nigerian minimum wage), as at the time of this writing, is a meager 30,000 Naira (about $22) for a full month. That's way below the minimum wage in most countries and has made Nigeria a poor country for about a hundred years of its existence now. This is, of course, a deliberate act of corrupt politicians who prefer to cart away huge sums of money from budget allocations while leaving the people to fight for scraps. Hence, the people are kept poor and uneducated, so they can't really do much against these wealthy leaders who keep impoverishing them. A wealthy, educated population will, of course, be quite difficult to swindle as you please. millions of children are out of school Nigerian Government Versus the Internet During the Coronavirus crisis, Nigerians were locked up at home like others around the world, and palliatives released by international groups to ease the suffering of Nigerians were hoarded in several warehouses instead of being distributed to the people. Also, police personnel in the SARS unit went on a rampage, harassing tech-savvy Nigerian youths who were making money from the internet as fraudsters without much investigation. Nigerian youths responded by protesting on Twitter using hashtags and proceeded to coordinate themselves and break the curfew into a real Nationwide Street protest that came to be known as the #endsars protest. Millions of Nigerian youths took to the streets around the country and gained global coverage. Also, secessionist groups like , who were clamoring to break away from Nigeria, used online platforms like Facebook and Twitter to gather and communicate with millions of followers. The Nigerian government then effectively responded by banning Twitter in the country but soon canceled the ban after it failed, as citizens were using VPN apps to circumvent the ban. Hence, the Nigerian government has tyrannically tried to suppress the internet in Nigeria without regard for the millions of people who have found employment online. IPOB Nigerian Government Versus Crypto Expectedly, the Nigerian government has not reacted very well to Cryptocurrency technology in the country, though the people have welcomed the decentralized finance system with open arms. in the country as the government tries very hard to clamp down on global crypto agencies like Binance. Even the earlier mentioned millionaire crypto trader in the country (Blord) was arrested and charged with internet fraud even though he was able to come out victorious. The government predictably hates Crypto as they can't really control it. They complain that terrorists and fraudsters use Crypto for financial transactions though they've not really done much about the corrupt politicians who use the actual banking system in the country to loot Country funds. Crypto has created jobs for many Nigerian youths who work online as crypto traders, forex traders, software developers, writers, content creators, etc., and earn decent wages from foreign customers. Crypto has been banned, unbanned, and banned again The Role of Autonomy, Cryptocurrency, and Daos in Potentially Lifting Nigerians From Poverty With the country divided between several tribes and two major religions (Christianity and Islam), tribal and religious sentiments have often been used by malicious politicians to keep Nigerians fighting against each other and refuse to unite in fighting against the corrupt leaders who are the real problem. Tribal and religious crises often mar Nigerian elections to the benefit of politicians who capitalize on such crises to rig elections and discriminate in government. Also, leaders who steal often defend their tribesmen from anybody who may try to prosecute them. This is a huge problem in the country, with many jobs and industries often being based on tribe instead of qualification. Autonomy: To solve this fundamental problem, Nigerians must start thinking of themselves first as individuals instead of as members of a tribe or religion. They must prioritize their welfare as citizens in voting and making other electoral and job related decisions in order to get competent leaders and office holders who will transform the country. Regional autonomy must be prioritized over the current seemingly unworkable "federal system" which has only created much infighting. Autonomy is critical to the development of Nigeria! When Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin, he was trying to create a decentralized financial system that would make financial opportunities fairly available to everyone around the world instead of to just a few members of the elite class who capitalized on the unfair legacy centralized system to get ahead of the rest of the population. Such a system is sorely needed in Nigeria, where inequality is even worse from widespread poverty and illiteracy. Many Nigerians use mobile phones, and with a little knowledge of Cryptocurrency, they can invest and get out of poverty without having to depend on a government that doesn't really seem to care about them. Cryptocurrency: Cryptocurrency could be the best opportunity for Nigerians to benefit from the financial system. Many Nigerians have never really experienced a free and fair election in their lifetime. This is due to widespread electoral malpractice that seems to have become the norm. Just like Twitter, which provides a global voice for the Nigerian people, which the government cannot forcefully shut down, DAOs will provide an even more decentralized platform for Nigerians to unite, organize, plan, and execute digital infrastructure for the good of the country. DAOs will allow Nigerians to practice democracy and governance in a free and safe virtual environment for education and networking purposes. Also, DAOs will allow Nigerians to influence the development of Web 3 to enable the developers to come up with software that is better suited to the Nigerian environment. DAOs: DAOs will provide a more sophisticated, unstoppable cyber voice for Nigerians around the world. Conclusion Nigerians have been held down by a corrupt, tyrannical government that seemingly would prefer to keep the people divided, poor, and uneducated. However, the Web 3 vision of democratizing the Internet and financial system is in complete opposition to such a system. With crypto concepts like autonomy, individualism, and sovereignty encapsulated in DAOs, Nigerians have a global technological movement they can leverage to come out of the country's economic crisis. is a groundbreaking DAO technology that Nigerians (and anyone around the world) can use to opt out of a corrupt leadership system that doesn't really represent them. Auth Labs

Empowering Nigeria With Web3: Exploring Autonomy, Cryptocurrency, and DAOs as Pathways to Prosperity

Let's learn about via these 53 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Product Market Fit /Learn Repo 1. What the Pandemic Taught Me About Product/Market Fit The question is not, “Does the company have product/market fit or not?”. The more appropriate question is, “What’s the strength of the company’s product/market fit?” 2. How We Iterated on 10 Ideas in a Month After a discussion (that lasted 30 seconds, as it was an obvious decision for us), we decided to share our complete journey with our new startup, Dataline, with as much transparency as possible. Learnings should be shared! Anybody can leverage our journey, and it’s also a good way for us to take a step back and understand what we did right and what we could improve upon. So here is our first story: how we iterated and sorted through 10 ideas in our first month of working on a new startup. 3. How is Product Management in a Tech Startup Different Than a Large Company? I’ve been asked many times what is product management in a tech startup and how the job differs from product management at a larger company with a more mature product. 4. Painkillers, Vitamins and Misunderstood Startup Lessons If you’re a startup founder, you may be short of many things : funding, sleep, the will to live. 5. How Discord Became the Most Successful US Consumer App in the Last 5 Years I recently came across this very interesting Twitter thread which claims that: 6. Everything About Product-Market Fit: And Why You're Probably Confused About It Many people talk about product-market fit, and how important it is in the early days of a startup. Actually, most people agree that product-market fit is fundamental to a startup’s trajectory. 7. Reddit's Origin Story and Persistent  Path to Product Market Fit Welcome to the first edition of Product Stories. The first product that I have chosen is Reddit — a company that thousands of startups have tried to emulate but always failed to do so. Let’s look at why that is and what’s so special about Reddit. 8. Existing Security Tools are not built for developers, so this developer-turned-founder created one SecureStack was nominated as one of the best startups in Gold Coast, Australia in Startups of the Year hosted by HackerNoon 9. Top 5 Effective Product Positioning Strategies Product positioning is one of the most discussed topics in product marketing, and it could either make or mar the performance of any product that you developed. 10. In Search of a Better way to Measure Product/Market fit 11. 3 Questions Founders Should Answer to Scale and Raise VC Investment Do I Understand the VC Asset Class and Perspective? Am I Building a Predictable Customer Acquisition Model? Is My Startup a Billion Dollar Company? 12. The Rise of Refurbished Phones — Except in the U.S. Refurbished phones are becoming more and more popular, but the U.S. is lagging behind in sales. Here's a look at why. 13. Shifting from a sales-led growth to product-led growth mindset The transition from sales-led to product-led growth model: What are the benefits and challenges of the product-led growth model. 14. Introducing Spark: Our New Early-Stage Launchpad for Startup Founders This year we have been quietly developing and launching our first micro-incubator programme at ucreate. Since 2015 we have been working with talented founders as their tech partner across a variety of industries and technologies. 15. What Makes a Successful Product Launch: 6 Lessons for First Time Founders Launch is neither the beginning nor the end. It is a series of overlapping sequences. A typical one may include pre-build, pre-launch, launch, and post-launch. 16. How We Applied Twice for the Same YCombinator Batch Back in September, we were iterating on many ideas. We had come up with a 2-day invalidation process to make sure that we were not wasting too much time on bad ideas. 17. Retool for Startups: Early-stage startups can now build internal tools for free Retool for Startups is a program designed to help early-stage startups build critical internal tools. Eligible startups get 12 months of free Retool credits. 18. Chase Bowers Got His First Thousand Customers Without Spending Any Money - Here's How! How Did Chase Bowers Get 1,000+ New Customers Without Spending a Dime? He gave away 1,000 free plans, used feedback to improve, & then launched paid plans. 19. How to Discover User Issues: A Beginners' Guide First Things First: 20. How to Test Product-market Fit Using Software Prototypes An entrepreneur at any level can make a software prototyping model to show or test how their idealized product would work in real life. 21. How We Carved A Niche For An Rx Delivery Service Few years ago, I consulted for a small Rx delivery startup in HongKong where I focused on strategy, go-to-market and built out their product direction from the 22. Will The Customers Like This Feature? We’ve all had arguments about whether customers are going to want this feature or that. Maybe it’s about how the feature might work or even what colour a button might be. It’s an important debate to have, but all too often an important follow-up question is left out: how many customers will this really serve? 23. How to Find Your Product Market Fit Using Creative Brand Voice – A Guide By Creative Director Manifesting your community's values and unmet needs through creative brand and product ideas is the secret to product market fit. 24. A Deep Dive into the Probability of Future Success Model Intelligence Node’s access to immense online & competitor data & AI analytics puts it at an advantage to understand product trends based on probability model. 25. A Good Product/Market-Fit Needs a Good Roadmap Tech products, whether digital features, products, or services, need to achieve product-market fit if they have any hope of succeeding. 26. How Your Churn Can Aid Business Growth How tracking your churn rate can provide valuable insights into your business. Learn how to calculate churn rate to drive exponential growth. 27. An Overview of our PH Launch for AskMakers v2.0 Oh…I am so sleepy…because I launched AskMakers 2.0 on Product Hunt and I have been monitoring it almost without sleeping😪 28. Looking for a New Smartphone Led Me to Create a Platform That Aims to Reverse the Product-Market Fit We have hundreds of brands producing the same things and no one catering for any other needs, be it in terms of size, keyboard, or other characteristics. 29. Mining Fiat is Unsustainable In an earlier article, I outlined the opportunities that blockchains offer investors from a wide angle. This prompted a number of requests for more in-depth analysis of the disruptive qualities of this technology. The following is a first principle examination of the market opportunities blockchain-based solutions offer within the realm of government-controlled currencies, commonly referred to as "fiat money". Quite literally addressing all the money in the world. 30. A Deep Dive Into Product Manager Roles and Responsibilities Product Manager as a function or practice is fairly old now. It has been around since 1931 (well at least in theory). It originated from a memo written by Neil McElroy, an Advertising Manager at Proctor and Gamble. He wrote this memo to the Executive Team of P&G suggesting the need of a “brand man”, a person solely responsible for the product and not the business. 31. How Doing Product Discovery Can Help You Build A Truly Invincible Company Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. Then they build something that customers reject, they miss the mark, or they need extra budget to get it there. When you suggest a Product Discovery as a way to help get better results it gets rejected. This article is a way to answer the question: “Why do Product Discovery?” 32. The Startup Action Framework Explained How to Take Your Startup from Foundation to Flourish 33. How to Find Market Fit for Data Products By the time I entered the bar on that rainy spring afternoon, Justin had already started on his cocktail. It had been a few months since I saw him last; after his product design firm ended their work with my previous healthcare technology employer, he had taken on some new projects and
it was tough to find time to connect. I had recently left that employer myself to take on a new job that ticked all the boxes- pay raise, prestigious company, work from home, great boss. Plenty of changes to catch up on. 34. Design Thinking as a Practice for Business Innovation & Breakthrough There's no denying that Design Thinking is the way of the future. Applying this approach to a strategy and Innovation, brands can completely satisfy the needs of customers. To stay on the top, they should realize the significance of design for product success rates and have a clear understanding of a Design Thinking method. 35. Pre-PMF Startup: How To Do It Right In the beginning of June 2020, we had enough cash to sustain ourselves for 2 years, and had decided to pivot. At the time, we weren’t sure if we needed to move away from our product, on which revenues were growing very slowly, or not. We spent 6 weeks in full exploration mode to identify what our next step was. 36. How to Find Product-Market Fit by Starting With an MVP MVP is a basic version of a product that consists of minimum features and core functionality, solving an important problem for the end-users. 37. Is Telegram Premium Worth Buying Telegram Premium was released in June this year. It brings added customization features, increased limits, and an ad-free experience. 38. 8 Questions Startup Founders Ask Too Late Recently I’ve been able to interview several startup founders, ranging from very early stage to actively scaling, bootstrapped to funded. Along with the lessons learned from my own hands-on work with startups, I’ve put together my highlights on key points that could make or break your startup venture. 39. What was the Product Masterclass by Product School all about? One of the things, I had decided, was that during the lockdown I would sharpen my skills around Product Management. For this, I have been religiously attending many webinars and doing some online courses. One of the courses that hit the chord was this course 40. Service & Marketplace-model fit Services are ambiguous, and creating an online services marketplace requires finding a fit b/w the service and the marketplace model 41. Market Research is the Key to Your Business Success: Here’s Why Today’s customers are smarter than you think. They are capable enough to research your product and make buying decisions on their own. With this in mind, you have to adopt new technologies and learn market trends. You have to understand your customers’ preferences, feelings, and attitudes. For that, you need to do market research. Market research is the core of your every successful business strategy. It’s the one and only way to get a deeper knowledge about your customers, competitors, and most importantly, your employees. 42. Ask Yourself These 80 Questions Before Starting a New Business I think you'll agree with me when I say: 43. Codeless Product Demos is the Key to Closing Deals for the Sales Team in 2021 This article talks about product demo and why codeless product demo creation is critical for sales teams to get leads. 44. The Epic Story of a Stellar Product Manager: From 0 to 100k Users Sunil Tej Gorantla is a product expert, growth hacker, and writer. He believes in solving for what people need and making data-driven decisions. 45. 4 Surprisingly Easy Steps To Make Your Product Into A Habit For Customers I did a survey this summer: I asked the founders what they want help with for their startup. I created a long list of options including sales, metrics, marketing, and product development. 46. How Carta is Capturing the Atomic Unit of the Entrepreneurial Stack When founders, limited partners, and investors ask us which companies exemplify Tribe’s culture, process, and decision-making towards successful outcomes, we point to three companies: Facebook, Slack, and Carta. These companies track our trajectory from operators to investors culminating in our partnership with Carta, where we’ve doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on our initial investment. This article explains why at Tribe we say, “We make N-of-1 companies.” 47. How to Unlock Product Market Fit and Rapid Growth for Startups Discover the key finding the elusive “product market fit” and unlocking rapid growth with steps you can start today. 48. Product Management Experience: Corporate vs. Early Stage Startup Work in a corporation can blind a product manager's eyes, due to the safety provided. Why it is necessary to gain more experience by building your own startup? 49. Make Product Experience The Differentiator [Explained] When someone asks me about how to make a product stand out and what could be one of the key product differentiators. 50. Why Building Enterprise Products Is Awesome While consumer products get all the hype, B2B products are a quiet gem 51. How Blockchain Startups Can Find Product Market Fit Follow our detailed guide for discovering the product-market fit for your startup 52. A Practical Setapp Guide For Measuring Product-Market Fit If you Google anything around "product - market fit", you're going to find hundreds of articles saying why this is so important for startups and software companies. Without it, the experts claim, you can't scale your idea. Won't have a viable company. But there isn't much on how to implement this theory. 53. How We Find A Way to Grow our MRR by 800% in 6 Months At the end of 2018, my co-founder Steve and I sat down and reflected on the year. 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