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Can your product solve some social problem?

Ths year I hope to see more people talking about what we did not do - and needs to be done urgently - than about what we did. Makes sense? I love technology. Eternal curious and inventive but my conclusion for the last year is that we do little. In fact very little use of everything that is around us to really improve people's lives. And for me technology exists for that! So what if we think at least in these days what every software, application or solution could do if its function was exclusively to help the next one? What persistent social problem could your product solve? I think it's super cool for AI to be used in museums but it would be cooler if it was used to help people get a job or reduce food waste. I find the maximum mobility applications but how many others could not exist to connect people in need of what others are willing to share, whatever the hell. There are infinite possibilities right before our eyes. You just have to want to see.
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It's technology, not magic.

I just heard that and would complete what magic is what we can or can not do with it. Algorithms, programming languages, the entire back end can seem very complicated. Even the front end, though more understandable. But what we do with them is what counts. What user will we have, what output, what experience. It's hard work to develop all this, but let's face it, all this has a single future, to become a commodity. So your application will be your differential. This is because I defend the fourth sector as barn of these innovations. A truly win-win environment free from politics, conflict, resistance. The sky is the limit! Besides to do good and help the people who need it the most. Does not sound like a good plan?

Already monetizing?

The year has gone by and I still do not understand these Brazilian startups investors that require a year of running, customers, revenue and even breakeven. I may be wrong but in the rest of the world this is not the definition of startup. Does it take too long to come up with the real deal or are we going to stick with these fakes forever?

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Voice control

Voice control, voice recognition or voice command hot topic by the world. Mainly because of the escalation of the fight between the assistants of Google and Amazon. But do you understand that well? I Do not. When we talk about voice control we think soon of Siri or Ok Google, which many people do not know, but the breadth is much bigger and many find it to be a fundamental element for whoever dominates the future. Without much return in time it was from 2012 that this became "normal" due to the evolution of speech recognition (NLU), which until then was science fiction, and has since fallen to the taste of users and now evolves to intelligent systems (understand AI) that will communicate with people through voice, text, vision, touch and gestures. But back to the main subject. These voice assistants will be increasingly present in our daily lives as the IOT (internet of things) becomes a reality. For those who do not know IOT are devices, usually without a screen, that can ...

Value network

A value network is a business analysis perspective that describes social and technical resources within and between businesses. The nodes in a value network represent people (or roles). The nodes are connected by interactions that represent tangible and intangible deliverables. These deliverables take the form of knowledge or other intangibles and / or financial value. Value networks exhibit interdependence. They account for the overall worth of products and services. Companies have both internal and external value networks. [1] Wikipedia

The two different Social Sourcings

After reading the inspiring article below I decided to understand more about Social Sourcing and ended up learning more than I expected because the term identifies two different and equally interesting things. The first, related to the article, is related to entrepreneurship or social responsibility, in fact more specifically to the creation of social value or transformation of lives by companies through their purchasing power. The other concerns the recruitment process through social networks, used more for the identification of passive candidates, and that is gaining more and more importance. In fact they say that 92% of companies already use this technique and there are even softwares that help in the task like Oracle Taleo Social Sourcing Cloud Service. It is vital to be connected in one way or another. Why a donation of $250 from my first employee moved me to tears