Hey, guys! How’s everything?
It’d been a really tough week, anyway, I’ve found for you some cool stuff around. Check it out!
Book of the week:
Started just a couple days ago, I’m already super impressed and interested. Gregory Bateson teaches you to think and reflect about philosophy, epistemology and other complex things as mind, communication, behaviour, relations in the funny conversational game (“or that serious, dad?”) between him and his daughter. Highly recommend!
Articles of the week:
I started trading almost a year ago and now I’m really enjoying the new understanding of crowd behaviour and the results I constantly get. I believe that models and principles from trading (or whatever) work really good in everyday life. That’s why I want you to read this article explaining how you should think and act using Game theory.
Google made 25 million free datasets (also paid) available for search. Google doesn’t curate them but indexes them by the open standards of schema.org, used by publishers to describe the dataset’s metadata. Most of them are related to “geosciences, biology, and agriculture”, as the company said.
If you do startups, sooner or later you will want to make a marketplace. Believe me, I know this shit. Each of us can be in this situation. So that your marketplace does not wait for the fate of your "new Facebook with emoji instead of backend", read these 4-parts series with advises of world’s top 17th marketplaces.
How was 2019 for startups in Eastern Europe? Very informative and well-structured article about all significant deals in VC, product launches and joint ventures.
One of the most important things you need to understand – is your customer journey, and how your customer behaves during this path. This article from Google allows you to dive into the insights and complexities of modern-day Ukrainians on their path to purchase, you’ll learn what they think about brand loyalty, hard data, offline and online touchpoints etc.
Services of the week:
I’ve already mentioned Neon for a 4D real person generation in my last newsletter. Just a week later Amazon launched Polly – enterprise-grade solution to build high-quality, Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice that represents your brand’s persona. Check how KFC’s Sanders voice sounds.
Toggle – free time-tracking software available on every mobile and desktop platform. It is really well-designed, hassle-free and helps you to break down your hours by projects, clients and tasks to see what’s making you money, and what’s holding you back.
CogSquared – representative of my new favourite class of services: AI for marketers. It is still in the closed beta, but the promises are really inspiring. CogSquared is analyzing any digital product and recommends you to run experiments to help you increase loyalty, optimise pricing, convert better and improve your customer relationships.
Sizly – is the must-have service for anyone who sells b2b or does fundraising. This is a brilliant desktop app, which allows you to upload or create a presentation, track the open rate and time spent for a document or every single slide, as well as add lead form and automate follow-ups. Check it out!
Obviously – Another startup that uses AI to make a life of a business owner easier and replace coders with code. Greet Obviously – Data Science predictions and analytics made easy as a conversation in natural language. I haven’t immersed myself deeply enough yet, but it looks absolutely amazing. Want to hear your feedback!