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Great to hear the positives about congestion pricing. It would be great to see how it can ease the congestion in Toronto. Unfortunately, I suggested congestion pricing as a possible solution as part of an academic project and was laughed off.

The Canadian market lacks innovation because the market doesn’t want innovation. Most Canadian businesses and startups thrive in the U.S. simply because the Canadian market is so much more risk-averse. Buyers are afraid of change and investors afraid of risk.

When you say business loans aren’t an option because of size and location, is it because you’re a 1 person company or because you’re in Ukraine? Just trying to understand where these companies consider risk.

With something like an IoT development framework, advertising and promotion is certainly not the way to begin. Have a look at the book called "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg to get an idea of the different GTM strategies.

You should have a target customer in mind and that will guide the strategies that you'll need to reach them.

Would you not be able to solve this by having a messaging queue and getting the database to publish it’s updates?

Curious what products you’ve seen as well.

I’ve seen small businesses use something like Zapier. A better way would be to have a pub/sub system but that may be overkill given the complexity.

Thanks for sharing. Really interesting that you've focused on dividend scheduling which is something I haven't quite seen anywhere else. The app also mentions stock prediction using AI - do you have more details about it?

Previously led data teams in banks and you’re right. There are dozens of flags for test accounts. When auditing, we screen out these accounts. Of course, with a proper data cleaning process, analytics gets a lot easier

Remote desktops are generally the access point for anything sensitive like source code or data.

Social engineering is likely the easiest way to get through security systems.

I’d be interested in learning more about your friend’s service.

It’s hard to give meaningful advice without understanding the full context of the business. Details such as maintenance, customer acquisition, etc. all play a factor in your next step.

Personally, I’ve mostly used LinkedIn, email and a spreadsheet but I’ve seen other tools like personal CRM float around.

LinkedIn and other social media tools are great because you can always comment on things other founders have/shared posted.