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2021-09-02 10:11:54 ​#StartupNews

Virtual events startups have high hopes for after the pandemic

Few people thought of virtual events before the pandemic struck, but this format has fulfilled a unique and important need for companies and organizations large and small during the pandemic.

Today, you can find numerous small niche events available year-round that might have been buried in the back of a larger in-person conference before 2020. For organizations, internal virtual events can also be instrumental in helping connect and promote engagement for remote-first teams.

Some respondents acknowledged that low-quality virtual events are growing ever more common, and everyone agreed that there is much more work to be done.

Among them:

Xiaoyin Qu, founder and CEO, Run The World
Rosie Roca, chief customer officer, Hopin
Hemant Mohapatra, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners India
Paul Murphy, former investor in Hopin with Northzone (currently co-founder of Katch)

Events are still going to happen virtually just because they’re easier to organize and people can have more in-depth conversations. Internal virtual events for employees is another category that is getting more traction, because companies have been going remote. So many internal events like the company happy hour — events that help employees engage better — we think that’s still going to happen virtually. So there are a number of use cases we think will continue to be virtual and are probably better virtual. Open / Comment

2021-09-01 18:14:19 #course #education
Our first course is ready for lounge. Next week live session is starting. To be part of the first live session be active, check today’s presentations, discuss these. Course Live session is limited by 100 people. All other will get it as recorded version. Open / Comment

2021-09-01 18:01:48 #SuccessStory

Figma - a startup that has increased its value to 10 billion in 5 years

As much as Google Docs did for text and GitHub for coding, Dylan Field's Figma does for design. The app is used by employees of Netflix, Airbnb, Zoom and Discord, and in July the company raised $ 200 million from investors: as part of this round, Figma was valued at $ 10 billion.

In April 2021, Dylan Field had his craziest day since he dropped out of Brown University to try his hand at startups almost a decade ago. At an online conference he announced his second product, an online learning tool jokingly called FigJam. Field's first product, Figma, an online graphics editor for collaboration, is popular with clients such as Airbnb, BMW, and Zoom.

Figma's flagship product is a virtual canvas where designers and other professionals create images in real time. But they can't use Figma to draw diagrams for ideas or flowcharts. This is where FigJam comes in, a digital version of a sticky whiteboard in the office or at home.

Figma entered the market in 2016 but already has millions of users and, according to sources, expects revenue to more than double this year from $ 75 million in 2020. Joe Biden's campaign organizers managed all visual assets through Figma.

How has it began?

When Field was in a specialized technical high school in Sonoma County, California, he created robots and websites for friends. Field later wowed executives during a summer internship at LinkedIn when he helped develop a social responsibility program.

Field drew attention to the widely used Adobe Photoshop for editing all kinds of images, which uses technology for this purpose in a public web browser, rather than in an office application. The idea was enough for venture capital firm Index Ventures, Flipboard board member Danny Rymer, then LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and others to spearhead a $ 4 million seed round in 2013.

When it came to introducing payments to use Figma, Field's intuition told him to take his time and keep refining the product. However, when a user from Microsoft warned him that the adoption of Figma in an IT corporation was slowing because employees hesitated whether the free service from the startup could be trusted, Field accelerated. Returning to the study, he chose a model inspired by the Australian platform Atlassian - a simple pricing system, ranging from $ 12 to $ 45 per editor.

Now with an additional $ 200 million in cash, Figma must decide how to prioritize international expansion, potential acquisitions, and new features that would allow the platform to become an end-to-end solution. FigJam, a project in progress, is on the first line. But there is still a lot of work to be done to turn it into a finished product. Open / Comment

2021-09-01 17:52:26 IDEA FACTORY official pinned «@Bestlogin, @MahovMah, @intel06, @Mr_american, @Amansolanki262, @VilasLandge, @blacknwhite420, @KingThoki Dear Trendsetters, you can and should promote your Idea and invite your friends and followers. But they should join the channel. We are checking this…» Open / Comment

2021-09-01 17:52:15 @Bestlogin, @MahovMah, @intel06, @Mr_american, @Amansolanki262, @VilasLandge, @blacknwhite420, @KingThoki

Dear Trendsetters,
you can and should promote your Idea and invite your friends and followers. But they should join the channel. We are checking this strong. And for sure they should be interested on topics of our channel. Good luck.

All other channel members are invited to discuss ideas in comments.
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2021-09-01 16:19:30 #voting #PitchYourIdea
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2021-09-01 16:17:54 #voting #PitchYourIdea
We begin our vote for the best idea! Vote will last until Sunday, so you'll have a chance to get acquainted with all the projects and choose the best one.

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2021-09-01 12:46:15 #PitchYourIdea by @KingThoki

Telegram Bot for students

90% of Students forget a topic and 10% never forget. Why? 90% of students don't revise a topic after a time interval while the other 10 percent do it.

Here, any student can add the topic of what they have read and the bot will remind them to revise it at each interval of time.

Also, students can add topics which they want to study in future at specific time/day. The bot will remind them before some hours as they should not forget and there will be many more things like weekly test/study materials.

By low or free fee for this service it will be used and spreaded very fast. We have a strategy to get 100.000 users in 6-8 months. This number of users will bring advertising, which will bring the project to profit and develop this business model to > 1.000.000 users. Open / Comment