Catching up with trends
Hi folks,
This week we have articles about trends impacting the startup scene, such as mission-driven companies, the Experience Age, live-streaming the future of computing, and HR for startups.
Also read about the potential market for A.I. bots, design practices in VR, and boiling a company idea down to a simple visual description.
Have a nice weekend!
Must read
The future of HR and why startups shouldn't reject It
"Many startups built their culture without the bureaucracy of human resources, but replacing a person with software can lead to problems."
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Culture
Profit or purpose? You can have both
"Nine out of ten believe that success should be measured by more than financial performance."
Modern Entrepreneurship
The daily routines of 15 successful entrepreneurs
We all want to know if successful entrepreneurs have some hidden productivity or happiness secret. Maybe it is in this article?
Trends
Moore’s Law is dead. Now what?
The key question now is if "the creative avenues left open to computing companies can provide similar payoffs to Moore’s Law after it ends", according to Neil Thompson, an assistant professor at MIT Sloan School.
Statistics on companies that use AI bots in private and direct messaging
Find out how big the potential market is for A.I. chatbots inside Messenger and other apps.
Design
The best visual description of a company I’ve ever seen
Just one slide explains the idea behind Meetup.com perfectly.
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Design practices in virtual reality
Designing an experience for VR is a totally different kind of ballgame. But an exciting one!
What I learned using an app to design a house for Alzheimer's patients
Using design principles for extreme users intersects with good design practices.
Tools
Announcing SyntaxNet: The world’s most accurate parser goes open source
It could potentially improve your digital assistants' understanding of language.
Comparably's new feature helps tech employees figure out how much equity they should get
2.5 percent? Maybe 0.5?
Sales
Enterprise sales for hackers
Are you selling your products to companies? This is an essential guide for doing sales in the enterprise.