Finding out if your startup has product-market fit — that is, if you have validated that there’s a market for your product and people will pay money for it — sounds like something you have to do later in the process, when your business is already well on its way. But finding out whether your startup has PMF is important because it means you can justify investing resources during the next stage of growth.
Read more ...Online research is cheap and fast which helps researcher to gain insight quickly. However, beside the good points, online research has also many disadvantages, which make researchers hesitate to use it.
Read more ...If you’re dreading the future, worry not — robots will take some jobs away from humans and there is actually a chance that AI will create new jobs. There are two sides to this coin: robots and AI will take some jobs away from humans — but they will also create new ones.Since 2000, robots and automation systems have slowly phased out many manufacturing jobs –1.7 million of them. On the flip side, it’s predicted that AI will create 97 million new jobs by 2025 Sean Chou believes that we all need to learn how to adapt comfortably with our new robotic overlords, but there are some who think otherwise. In an interview with the New York Times, he voiced his opinion that robots are stupid and can only be fed the same data over and over again, having no intelligence of their own. In blunt words, he says: "They’re dumb as s***." Robotic automation will eliminate many jobs in the near future, but it won’t be a job destroyer. In fact, it’s likely to lead to more self-employment and alternative work arrangements, which is one reason why the IBR study found that there’s no evidence that low-level workers — such as teachers, nurses and other professionals — will be affected at all by AI technology.
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