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Meta is installing mandatory tracking software on US employees' work computers to record mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots.

The data feeds directly into Meta's AI agent training pipeline.

Employees cannot opt out.

what do you mean mate?

Here are some examples:

- smallcase offers smart investment portfolios curated by experts in one click. Investors include: Amazon, Sequoia Capital India, Blume Ventures and Arkam Ventures.

- Kuvera is a free online investment management platform. They cover everything from fund selection, goal planning, tax optimization, to rebalancing.

- Jar helps users build saving habits by automating deposits. Investors include: Tiger Global, Arkam Ventures, Rocketship, and WEH Ventures, among others.

If interested in reading more about India's Fintech ecosystem, I wrote about it more in detail here: https://www.fintechfri.day/p/indias-population-becoming-weal...

Acquihire?

I used to believe that software for creators was a somewhat oversaturated space — and upon doing more research, I found out that I was wrong. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.

Here's what I found out

Goldman Sachs estimates that the creator economy will double to $480 billion by 2027.

Technology has and will continue to play a huge role in this, as it has lowered the barriers to content creation.

Individuals are now free to choose which kind of work they take on (e.g. newsletters, livestreams, podcasts).

This has fueled demand, not only for content platforms, but also new services and tools that help creators manage their business.

What this means for startups:

Creators have access to new technologies and platforms through which they can engage their audiences and monetize their content.

Founders and VCs, recognizing the value of direct audience relationships, have focused on investing and developing tools to facilitate content creation, distribution, and monetization.

Some of the business models that VCs are paying attention to are:

B2B Services: this includes analytics tools, tools for managing communities and fan relationships, and services that help creators with operations (e.g. legal, accounting, or financing)

Premium Fan Experiences: platforms that facilitate the creation of unique, high-touch experiences for superfans. These can include virtual meet-and-greets, personal shout-outs, exclusive content, and more.

Education and Courses: Creators with specific expertise in can develop and sell courses or offer coaching and consulting services.

One of the most overlooked characteristics of the creator economy is that creators are in fact media companies, and these companies require services, tech, and infrastructure to operate.

I've never used Taxfyle, so I can't speak on that -- but given the price, you got a good rate. Intuit Turbo Tax is likely the same product, so there's no "incentive" to switch really -- as long as you are getting what you need.

I recommended TurboTax because that is the one I am familiar with, and the alternative is SMB accountants that sometimes will charge you $2.5K to file corp tax. Depending on the size/complexity of your biz, it's not always worth it.

$500/mo for having to review transactions yourself? That's sounds like a mess.

What do you wish they did for you, that they're not currently doing?

would love to speak with you (email or call) to learn about these issues.

From my experience, lots of startups end up with a shitty service because at the end of the day, the provider does not care about keeping the company in check.

have you tried self-filing for taxes using Turbo Tax for business? (by Intuit)

I always recomend this to founders, it's the most straight-forward and costs around $500 (a bit more if you get the package where they have someone assisting you)

Happy to chat more if helpful -- I do finance/accounting for startups.

For me, someone having experience growing their own projects is a big one (hard bonus if they were able to monetize). But generally, I look for:

- Creativity: Growth hacking often involves coming up with unconventional ideas to drive growth, so a growth hacker must be creative and willing to try new things.

- Entrepreneurial Mindset: be willing to take risks and be adaptable to changes.

- Persistence: Growth hacking involves a lot of trial and error. They should be willing to experiment with different ideas and strategies until they find what works.

- Customer focus: needs to understand customer needs and behavior. This means being able to speak with customers, analyze their feedback, and incorporate it into the growth strategy.

Bloomberg has developed a machine learning model, BloombergGPT, which applies AI techniques to financial datasets. The product could provide an entirely new way of doing financial research.

The model uses proprietary and curated datasets, including financial news, company financial filings, and press releases.

The Bloomberg data used for training spans from March 1, 2007 through July 31, 2022.

Training for the BloombergGPT model required approximately 53 days of computations run on 64 servers

Use cases include:

1/ generating an initial draft of an SEC filing

2/ summarizing a blurb containing financial content into a headline

3/ providing a company chart of an organization and linkages between an individual and multiple companies

4/ automation of generation of draft routine market reports and summaries for clients

5/ retrieval of specific elements of financial statements for specific periods via a single prompt

that is eye opening. The discrepancy of skill between a pro and a novice will narrow significantly. Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely. The metric here is # of reports to the FBI — huge increase from 2021 to 2022

oh nice -- will look into this. Thanks for sharing

I use it to help with my newsletters -- cuts down the editing process time by 80%. Mix of notion AI and ChatGPT.

gold! I found koinly extremely frustrating -- had to reconcile everything

sir, yes, sir!

That's a sick idea. I like it.

1) it's to have customers that generate more revenue and benefit from the service to pay more

2) as a company, you also don't want your users to abuse resources and upload unneccessary items to the database, after all, every item costs money (cents add up). This is nothing abnormal -- lots of companies are using a Usage-based pricing model.

Ahah nice

As you may know, Bitcoin can be divided into very small pieces called satoshis (or sats).

With the new Ordinals protocol, people who operate Bitcoin nodes can add "special" information to each of these tiny pieces (sats), creating something called an Ordinal. Similar to the smart contracts we are familiar with Ethereum.

In turn, these can create what we know as NFTs.

Ordinals is essentially the name of "NFTs" in the bitcoin world.

I guess it’s getting old for sure haha, but you can’t deny the guy has skills

Peter McKinnon (lifestyle, landscape, action shots) and Sean Tucker (portraits, street photography, nature sometimes)

My bad. I’ve never seen anything like that.

my bad! i did not see that.

I thought that was being said as some kind of metaphor/reference I did not understand. My bad.

I love the following newsletters:

- https://www.raconteur.net - https://futurism.com - https://contrarianthinking.co - https://www.saassun.day

(I write the last one)

You're not an outlier. This happens to everyone at some point in their lives. Without periods like these, one would not be able to appreciate the good times.

We are constantly evolving and finding ourselves. Keep your head up!

I found this course with great ratings while browsing on Udemy this weekend:

https://www.udemy.com/course/professional-macos-programming/

Hey guys, I wrote about this topic in my latest newsletter, and I'd be curious to hear about any additional strategies you have implemented at your company.

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In times of economic downturn, reducing customer churn becomes even more critical for companies as customers may be more inclined to cancel subscriptions due to cost concerns and perceptions of value.

To combat this, here are a few tips for startups:

1.Identify potential issues and disengagement early by tracking daily active user (DAU) and monthly active user (MAU) data.

2.For accounts at risk of disengagement (those with below-average or infrequent login frequency), create opportunities for conversation through in-person sessions or feedback forms.

2.If cost is a concern for the customer, help your customer understand the value and benefits of your solution to justify the expense.

4.In addition to direct customer interactions, you can also address churn issues by revising elements of your product pages to convey value better and reinforcing the value proposition with customer success stories and case studies.