Digital, Startups & Tech Roundup — Issue #90
🚀 Startups
Managing Founder Stress — stripe.com
Clinical psychologist Sherry Walling on how to balance the intensity of running a business with preserving your mental and relationship health.
User-First Monetization — Lessons from Instagram and Strava — firstround.com
James Quarles played a crucial role in creating Instragram’s multi-billion dollar business model. Now CEO of Strava, he’s sharing the fundamentals of healthy monetization for startups.
A Roadmap of the Key Stages From Zero to $50M — And How to Win at Each One — www.slideshare.net
There are seven key stages in a startup’s evolution from $0m to $50m in revenue. Understanding where you are in that evolution, and how to act at each stage is…
🏆 Product
Google alums launch Maslo, a digital companion to mediate technology’s uncanny valley — techcrunch.com
Earlier this month, two former Google staffers quietly launched a new app that’s designed to help users overcome technology’s uncanny valley and develop a more healthy relationship with the ubiquitous electronic assistant that “lives” in our pockets.
10 Steps for better Onboarding Experience — uxdesign.cc
Onboarding is one of the most crucial elements of every app. Very often, it will determine whether a user will continue using an app or not because of how simple it is to use. Onboarding is way more…
Spotify is testing a new app that’s just for listening to playlists — www.theverge.com
It’s called Stations, and Spotify says it’s the fastest, easiest way to get to your music.
📈 Marketing
Facebook is cutting third-party data providers out of ad targeting to clean up its act — www.recode.net
Facebook says it’s going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom.
Advertisers will spend $40B more on internet ads than on TV ads this year — www.recode.net
Thank social, video and mobile.
📱 Tech
All of Facebook’s privacy fixes have broken Tinder — www.theverge.com
Facebook has broken Tinder and users who were booted off the dating app have taken to Twitter to complain about it. Ever since the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data breach, the social media platform has been rolling out more security and data privacy updates.
Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless Amazon Go stores this year — www.recode.net
New futuristic convenience stores could appear in Seattle and Los Angeles.
The Ikea Manual Of The Future Looks Amazing — www.fastcodesign.com
What might Ikea’s confusing instructions look like in AR? One designer decided to find out.
