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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey wants to build an app store for social media algorithms

The Verge

Dorsey also sees decentralization as a way to “address some of the problems” around Section 230, the law that gives platforms protection from user-created content. TechCrunch published a deep dive last month on where the project is headed, and it described Bluesky as “firmly in the research phase.”.

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civil society,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified. “In The issues are far from isolated. Gigauri noted that leaders in Georgia were proceeding apace along a three-phase legislative attack on NGOs.

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Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta, gets backing from 500 Startups

TechCrunch

For instance, some Nigerian startups are guilty of issuing preferred shares in naira and then canceling to issue dollar-denominated SAFEs when they get incorporated in the U.S. This raises transaction costs to manage subsidiaries and issue employee stock options. Image Credits: Raise. The company is active in Nigeria and Kenya.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. This is the phenomenon where critical thinking is seen as disloyalty even if it raises valid issues. Bike Shedding.

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Building a Nonprofit Data Marketing Strategy Without Cookies

Nonprofits Source

While Googles latest update seems to indicate that cookies wont be completely phased out, they will become increasingly unreliable as more and more users opt out of them. This issue is more common than you might think; 28% of nonprofit leaders cite not capturing the correct data as a top donor data challenge. Leverage data enrichment.

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A startup’s guide to software delivery

TechCrunch

As we know from Conway’s law , your software architecture and your organizational structure are deeply linked. The founding phase is the exciting exploratory phase. The key during this phase is to keep the architecture and tooling as simple and flexible as possible. The key to success is consistency.

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

TechCrunch

During the development phase, the team should be constantly asking how their use of AI is in alignment with the company’s values, whether models are treating different people fairly and whether they are respecting people’s right to privacy. Don’t forget about ongoing AI governance and regulatory compliance.

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