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Demand Curve: How to get social proof that grows your startup

TechCrunch

Demand Curve: How to double conversions on your startup’s homepage. This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. We’ve found that effectively using social proof can lead to up to 400% improvement in conversion.

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The path to socially responsible AI

CIO

AI is like the discovery of fire—it’s a great tool if you know how to use it, but if you don’t use it responsibly (or use a model built responsibly), it will burn you. Stack Overflow is now on a journey to create a new era in the practice of AI: the era of social responsibility.

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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’s background is in finance, most recently as COO of Acorns and the CEO of Acorns’ regulated entities. “I

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Opaper takes the friction out of social commerce

TechCrunch

On a return trip to Southeast Asia (McIntosh was born and raised in Indonesia), she observed the rise of social commerce, or people selling through social media like Instagram and WhatsApp, and was surprised to see it was similar to all the manual work she had put into her online bakery years earlier.

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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. She will also review how a patient-centered design strategy can be used to evaluate and refine onboarding processes. How to articulate behavior change techniques to be used in patient onboarding.

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Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round

TechCrunch

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Honeycomb is also different from mainstream social apps because it will be a subscription-based service, not one that’s monetized through advertising.

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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

CIO

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. It all reduces the ability to arrive at a budget settlement that shifts resources into the health and social care space. So you can see how my job has had to react to all of those stimulants.”

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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

Learning Objectives: Learn the fundamental principles and logic of experimentation Learn how to apply various models and experiments to various types of product risk Learn how Design Thinking and Lean collaborate to speed up the discovery and validation of new strategies, products, and functionality Key steps and practical guidance for building the (..)