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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

TechCrunch

And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5

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New social investment platform Follow taps influencers to mirror their investment strategies

TechCrunch

The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. Social investing is not a new concept. The size of the market is huge,” he told TechCrunch. Our biggest competitor is inertia. equities to U.S.

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How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps

TechCrunch

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. Conceptually, social commerce isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Globally, social commerce is on the path to becoming a $1.2

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

TechCrunch

’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets. And be used to pump out unwanted direct marketing or spam.

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ByteDance again looks to TikTok to promote its other social app, Lemon8

TechCrunch

TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8 , another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from product intelligence firm Watchful.ai. The app, a lifestyle social network, had originally launched in arch 2020 but was artificially inflated on TikTok this spring.

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