Growing Kid vs Growing Startup As I continue to put my efforts in working and mentoring to grow my 3 years young kid and 2 years young startup, <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://remasto.com'> Remasto</a>, I see many similarities and opportunities in this journey: <center><img src='/images/startup-vs-kid.png' alt=life of an entrepreneur vs life of a dad' style='width: 512px; height: 512px;' /> </center> 1. You can only expect to grow step by step - 1,2,3 and so on. If you skip foundational steps, it will lead to bigger missteps later. 2. The onboarding process for the kid and startup is almost the same. If it’s not explained well, the results might not be the same as you expect. 3. The real learning happens only when both are released outside in the market. It is based on the feedback the parents receive. 4. You have to be adamantly responsive as the kid wants to play with you right now at 2 AM and the startup wants you to fix the bug right now at 4 AM. 5. Focus is required. You always want to go for the next one as getting an idea or executing the same process of the next ones is very easy compared to taking care of the kid or the company you have right now in your hand. 6. Both are growing fast and you are too busy focusing on one or the other every single moment. You will love it when both are growing. It passes faster than ever. You will remember that time forever.

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<a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://k12practice.com'> K12Practice.com</a> is a personalized learning tool for students of all ages and abilities. It includes subjects & topics for students from kindergarten to 12th grade in 25+ countries and in 60+ languages. One-size-fits-all instruction for high school and middle school students is not always effective. Every student has different skill levels & different learning styles, strengths, & weaknesses. K12Practice provides personalized feedback & guidance to students with unique needs & abilities. Here are some potential use cases for K12Practice: <center><img src='/images/K12Practice.png' alt='K12Practice.com for Children in K-12 School' style='width: 614px; height: 522px;' /> </center> 1. Personalized Learning: When a student struggles with a particular concept, K12Practice can provide additional explanations or examples until the student demonstrates mastery. 2. Learning at their own speed: K12Practice can support self-paced learning by providing students with flexible access to resources. Students can work at their own pace, taking as much time as they need to master a concept before moving on to the next one. 3. Enrichment Activities: K12Practice can suggest books, articles, & videos on a particular topic, or provide challenges & puzzles that push students to think creatively & critically. 4. Customized Learning Plans: Students can work with K12Practice to identify areas where they need extra help, practice more in any language, set achievable goals, & track their progress over time. 5. Personalized Support: K12Practice can provide additional explanations, practice problems, & feedback to help students master difficult math, science, social studies, or language arts concepts. 6. Track Progress: K12Practice can help students track their progress over time. This can help students stay motivated and focused. It can also help them develop important skills like self-reflection & self-evaluation. 7. Individual Feedback: K12Practice can provide personalized feedback on student work, identifying areas where they need improvement, showing them progress charts & suggesting strategies for improvement. 8. Collaboration & Communication: K12Practice can facilitate collaboration & communication between students, parents & teachers in any language. This can help create a more interactive & engaging learning environment. Whether students are struggling with a particular subject or looking to explore their interests in any subject in 25+ countries, K12Practice can be a valuable resource that supports their learning and growth in 60+ languages. <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://k12practice.com'> Signup now</a> to help your kids to practice and improve their critical thinking skills.

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Negotiation with parents and teachers is typical after the age of 12, but children lack confidence or shy away from negotiating while often resorting to angry or frustrated language. A <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/course/03b8ccea383c4cca-develop-negotiation-skills-for-your-children'> course</a> that teaches negotiation skills is not enough on its own. Practices associated with the course that help your Children find the gaps and opportunities to improve their logical thinking are the need of the hour. Reading, listening, or watching videos on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Vimeo or any other platform is not enough to develop any skill for your Children. Practicing how to speak, what to reply, and critical thinking in real-time makes them more prudent. I’d also argue that practices might not be enough for many Children and we have seen that in our private beta users. But practices with the right set of feedback will make them think and apply the learnings from the report in real-life. With that start, they are able to begin optimizing their practices. The concept of negotiation itself is based on logical thinking. So, the first step to teaching them this life skill would be to teach logical thinking and keeping calm to think logically. We have added 15+ real-life situations and scenarios that parents and children face almost every day. <center><img src='/images/Negotiation-skills-develop-for-children-jwalant-patel.png' alt='Develop negotiation skills for your Children' style='width: 614px; height: 522px;' /> </center> We have included all experiences in the course that will help you help your children realize the responses and conversations. Every situation is analyzed in the following format throughout the course: 1. We lay out the scenario. 2. Then we give an unsuccessful answer that might sound like their current attempt. 3. We then explain, briefly, why it won’t work. 4. Then we give a better answer. 5. Lastly, we explain how the second answer addressed the previous concerns we mentioned. Every situation is provided with practices that have been trained to help your Child shape their responses. Unlike humans, the Bot will never be bored or stressed out in teaching your child to be better critical thinkers until they are. Remarkable negotiation skills also help in avoiding future conflicts and problems. These exceptional negotiation skills can contribute to your children’s future success. Good negotiation skills can help build better relationships because the aim is to foster goodwill and collaboration despite differences in interests. These skills enable quality solutions that last longer, instead of short-term solutions that fail to satisfy the situation completely. Teaching negotiation skills to kids is important yet tricky at the same time for parents and teachers. Having better negotiation skills gives everyone constructive benefits, most of the time. This course is prepared by Laura Miller, MA, Minal Patel, and Jwalant Patel. Every topic includes practices and the format that we have discussed above. The course will be active on December 2nd. But you can now pre-book it for $43. It’s a one-time buy. This is the perfect Christmas gift for your Children. Every practice is secure and cannot be seen by anyone other than parents and children. Read more <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/privacy_policy'> here</a> about Our Policy Towards Children and COPPA. You can delete practice videos anytime you want and the videos will be removed from our servers. We all have faced these situations as a Child and now as a Parent. We have created this solution that we wanted for our children and directly provide to everyone to get the most benefits from this. Our kids will not learn the art of negotiation overnight. Only through practice shall a child learn this skill. However, once children learn these, they will be better prepared to manage their anxiety amidst adversities. With their strong-rooted negotiation skills, your children can pave their way out of any problematic situation with the best result. In difficult situations, even in regular social interactions, negotiation skills help a child in many ways.

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Teach Your Children Negotiation Skills

We will be discussing performance reviews in Fortune 500 companies. The process will include the details of questions, practices, discussions, parameters, categories, keywords, criteria and AI-powered feedback about performance reviews and meetings in the companies. We have included performance reviews for 5 companies in the course this week and many more will come in this month. Here’s the list: Deloitte Deloitte’s previous performance management process was discontinued. In which at the start of the year, objectives were set for the organization’s thousands of employees, employee performance on projects was evaluated by a manager. The new process is based on structured reviews. We have included the process, questions, practices and AI-powered feedback with all the practices in this <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/courses/'> course</a>. JP Morgan Chase: The bank has 240,000 employees and is approaching a web based platform for the feedback rather than traditional ratings system. Learn more about the questions, discussion points, meetings, reviews and feedback given to employees anytime in the year in this <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/course/ec07abd449758299-performance-review-course'> course</a>. <center><img src='/images/Fortune-500-performance-reviews.png' alt='Team and employee performance reviews in Fortune 500 companies' style='width: 614px; height: 522px;' /> </center> Walmart: Walmart’s performance planning is based on three main dimensions that relate to the needs of its retail business. One of the parameters is related to customer service across departments. We have included the practices with AI feedback, questions and processes in the <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/courses/'> course</a>. Amazon: Amazon has a unique approach when it comes to performance review. The expectation is very high and there is always a feeling of competition every time. This drives high performance across teams and individuals. Although the performance review only happens once a year at Amazon, the feedback reflects your entire year’s journey. <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/'> Click here</a> to find about the practices, keywords for each answer and more. Infosys: Infosys switched from a forced ranking system to an “open ranking” system. It has implemented a new performance appraisal system. Feedback is given throughout the year. There are few ratings given when it’s time about the promotion, appraisal, bonus and salary discussion. Learn everything, positive and negative, about Infosys review system <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/course/70a89743755a6755-performance-review-for-infosys'> here</a>. <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://shadowing.ai/courses'> Click here</a> to find more courses and practices.

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Despite the fact that online shopping has grown at an enormous pace in the last 20 years, brick-and-mortar stores are still as important as ever. This is mainly because the online store experience still fails to give the user real contact with the product to be sold. Here’s the report from Market Track. The concept I explain here can be applied to any store such as, Walmart, Target, Amazon Go, and grocery stores like, Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Food Lion, etc. Walmart is using technology to improve shopping experience offline and online, but there’s always scope for more improvement. It’s been around 5 weeks now since I saw Walmart’s store-issued scanner device for the first time in one of the Walmart stores in Mountain View, CA. I was surprised and curious when I saw the device for the first time. So, as curious as I am towards trying new things, I tried it out. I liked using the device as it was easy to scan products I was interested in buying and wouldn’t take as much time at checkout. There were special carts designed to hold the device while shopping. So far so good. The device was proving to be pleasantly convenient. <center><img src='/images/Walmart-Scan.png' alt='Scanning device at Walmart' style='width: 700px; height: 364px;' /> </center> There were some things that I found during my shopping trip that would have made the experience even better. Some of my concerns were that: <center><img src='/images/Walmart-scan-cart.png' alt='Walmart cart and scanner' style='width: 700px; height: 467px;' /> </center> <ul><li>1. I couldn’t delete any item from my cart on that device. I was only able to delete the item from my cart when I went to the self check out section before making my payment and for that too I had to call a store associate to help me delete the item from my order. </li> <center><img src='/images/Walmart-selfcheckout.png' alt='Walmart self checkout' style='width: 700px; height: 467px;' /> </center> <li>2. There was no place to put/return the device near the self-checkout register after I scanned the device to make a payment through the register. Convenience and verification was missing at this point. I thought there should have been a place near the self checkout registers where one could return the devices and that would automatically register within the system that the device has been returned. </li> <center><img src='/images/Walmart-self-checkout-unit.png' alt='Walmart self checkout unit' style='width: 500px; height: 700px;' /> </center> <li> 3. There were a few items in the toys and electronics section I couldn’t scan. </li></ul> What more could be done? I’d like to share some reading material about what some enterprising folks are doing to further expand the shopping experience. I read an article some time back about shopping on the way to work in South Korea: <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='https://www.designboom.com/technology/tesco-virtual-supermarket-in-a-subway-station/'> https://www.designboom.com/technology/tesco-virtual-supermarket-in-a-subway-station/</a> And I just read an article about how Kroger is taking a direct shot at Amazon and Walmart and making checkout lanes obsolete. <a target='_blank' style='color:blue' href='http://www.businessinsider.com/kroger-customers-check-out-without-registers-or-cashiers-2017-12'> http://www.businessinsider.com/kroger-customers-check-out-without-registers-or-cashiers-2017-12</a> Currently, customers still have to go to the register to pay in Kroger stores. Making payments using the Kroger app will be introduced soon. So, I thought to combine the aforementioned 2 processes from the reading material I shared. Imagine this: After reaching a Walmart store, 1. I don’t want to take any cart. (I just dislike carts. I don’t like to push around carts in any store.) I scan the products I want using the store-issued trackable scanner device. <center><img src='/images/Walmart-scanner.png' alt='Walmart scanner' style='width: 387px; height: 536px;' /> </center> 2. I pay on that device itself. No need to stand in line, including the self checkout lane, for the payment. <center><img src='/images/Walmart-credit-card.png' alt='Walmart credit card' style='width: 284px; height: 179px;' /> </center> 3. After the payment, I expect Walmart to deliver my order to my address in my account or any given address. <center><img src='/images/Walmart-delivery.png' alt='Walmart devlivery information' style='width: 700px; height: 345px;' /> </center> This takes care of the combination of, in-store buying experience, technology (made it easy to carry my items in cart) and delivery (at my home in 2 hours where I don’t have to worry about taking products first to my home). As a consumer, I have achieved a few things here: I like to see items first before I buy, e.g., groceries. I want to carry the scanning device to make me feel stand out. My order will be delivered to my address in 2 hours. So, I can go anywhere I want after checkout and that could be to watch a movie or to pick up my neighbor’s kid from school or to go to gym or to go to a meeting. I saved dead mileage (UBER and LYFT, please notice this. Just saying. You might already have thought about this as I don’t have to go home just to drop the products I just bought.) This experience is both convenient and enjoyable. I would definitely be a very happy returning customer. I will provide following analytics in my next blog: <ul><li> 1. Cost analysis to implement this featured process </li> <li> 2. Possible sales growth and brand building analysis </li> <li>3. Impact on metrics, like, returning visitors, CAC </li> Please provide your feedback. I hope that this fostered food for thought. You can also find me on @jwalantpatel. If you like my blog, please subscribe. January 18, 2018

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