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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. Field will deploy the new capital in product development and additional hiring. equities to U.S.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. The latest to get VC recognition is KNN3, a Singapore-based startup working to help developers make sense of relational data across blockchains. When we get on a social network, the first thing that surfaces is normally suggestions for following.

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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. And that’s why we’ve just gone through this capital raise to experiment with that essentially.”.

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Improve Onboarding with User-Centered Design

Speaker: Dr. Kate Wolin, Founder, Circea

In the age of social distancing, digital onboarding is becoming essential to any program. Kate Wolin, founder of Circea, for an overview of behavioral science and the evidence-based strategies that can be used to support patient engagement. Application of patient-centered design to evaluate and refine onboarding strategies.

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Game Developers: 5 Strategies for a Great User Experience

DevOps.com

Many people turned to social and casual gaming to entertain themselves at home and interest is expected to continue to rise. The post Game Developers: 5 Strategies for a Great User Experience appeared first on DevOps.com. The gaming industry has exploded since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Program with Real Impact

Harvard Business Review

Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. This strategy fosters genuine community engagement and responsive initiatives, as seen in a mining company’s impactful HIV/AIDS program.

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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. The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information.