Forward of the discharge of Harry Types’ third album, Harry’s Home, Twitter revealed simply how typically we’re late-night speaking in regards to the former boy-bander in what its dubbing “The Types Report.”

In response to the social media firm, the British pop star beat out Harry Potter and Prince Harry as probably the most talked about Harry of the last decade. Guess that is only a signal of the occasions.

Harry’s Home was introduced on March 23 and since its announcement followers have tweeted about Harry over 10 million occasions since. Twitter experiences that on common every fan has tweeted in regards to the album twice.

However Types goes viral for extra than simply his music. He is consistently serving buzzworthy seems. His inexperienced boa adorned leather-based swimsuit on the 2021 Grammys induced a fervor on Twitter that resulted in a 5 occasions improve in tweets about boas in comparison with the week earlier than. Tweets about sporting boas peaked throughout the awards present.

Types’ different most tweeted about trend moments embody his December 2020Vogue cowl and his 2019 Met Gala match.

Twitter additionally took “The Types Report” to the streets and painted murals in Los Angeles and New York Metropolis of common tweets about Types.

In a press launch, Twitter’s head of Music Partnerships Kevin O’Donnell spoke to Types’ affect on the platform, “Twitter is on the middle of the music fandom—it is the place individuals talk about new music and performances, and join with different followers who share an identical ardour. It has been unbelievable to see how the dialog round Harry Types has developed and the joy round Harry’s Home.”

There’s already been over 10 million tweets about Types and Harry’s Home and it hasn’t even come out but, solely time will inform what chaos happens on Twitter on Friday, Could 20 when the album drops. It is going to by no means be the identical because it was.

Harrys Home can be streaming on main platforms on Friday, corresponding to Amazon Music, Apple Music, and Spotify, and is accessible for buy on vinyl.

Over the previous few months, we’ve been working to make Patreon simpler, sooner, and extra gratifying for you and your patrons.

At the moment, we’re excited to share a preview of those upgrades, designed to make your commonest workflows faster and extra intuitive. Now, the instruments you employ every single day have been consolidated right into a single, unified view, providing you with full entry to the whole lot it’s worthwhile to energy and develop your membership.

You’ll additionally see an enhanced looking expertise throughout net and cell. Your pages will load sooner, the app will run smoother, and the whole lot will simply really feel an entire lot sharper.

With this replace, your patrons may have a clearer path to the issues that they care most about — you and your creations.

Beginning subsequent week, right here’s what you’ll see:

Your web page, entrance and middle

Now, while you log into Patreon as a creator, you’re dropped proper into your workflow so you may immediately begin creating. You’ll be capable of see and edit all your earlier posts, or view your web page from the angle of your patrons or the general public.

In that very same proper menu, you’ll be capable of soar to enhancing your web page and managing your posts.

A extra streamlined sidebar

The brand new top-level navigation provides you direct entry to the entire instruments it’s worthwhile to energy your membership. The locations you go to most steadily — Patrons, Insights, Payout, Messages, Notifications, and Settings — stay neatly in your left sidebar. Your commonest workflows, from creating posts to creating withdrawals, at the moment are proper at your fingertips.

If you click on into these sections, you’ll discover related tabs throughout the highest of your display screen.

Seamlessly change between profiles

Practically one third of creators are additionally members of different Patreon communities, and we’ve heard from many creators that you really want a simple, streamlined approach to transfer between your creator profile and patron profile.

The brand new profile switcher provides you with a lightning-fast approach to step into your patron profile and again into creator mode.

All your insights in a single place

Beforehand, insights have been unfold throughout many various pages, which made it troublesome to get a transparent and correct image of the well being of your membership.

Now, you’ll see the very important details about your membership, earnings, and posts in a single, unified view. No extra clicking round to seek out the data you want. It’s all proper there.

We’re dedicated to giving each creator the insights they should make knowledgeable, actionable choices about their membership, together with what ways are working throughout revenue, membership development, web page site visitors, and submit engagement. Within the coming months, you’ll see extra enhancements to the Insights expertise as we construct in the direction of that imaginative and prescient.

Simpler than ever for patrons

With this replace, your patrons may have a a lot clearer path to your creator web page from their house feed and sidebar. The issues they care most about — you and your content material — at the moment are entrance and middle.

In case you missed it, we’ve lately made a variety of enhancements to the general app expertise. Search is cleaner, playback is smoother, and the audio tab has gotten a whole rework.

What’s subsequent

The brand new expertise will begin rolling out to creators and patrons on the finish of Could throughout net, iOS, and Android apps.

When you’ve got extra detailed questions, you may as well go to our help web page for a full breakdown of what’s altering in our Assist Middle.

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Matt Phelan is the co-founder and co-CEO of The Happiness Index (THI). A seasoned entrepreneur, Matt launched a advertising and marketing company in 2008 which turned integral to constructing THI. The workforce has been capable of develop to over £1 million in annual recurring income, with a 95% buyer retention fee*. Now with plans to develop internationally and have extra staff completely satisfied and engaged, they’re fundraising on Seedrs to a goal of £475,007. We felt this was the fitting time to get to know Matt and his mission. 

You’re a second time entrepreneur and writer. Inform us about your profession earlier than launching The Happiness Index?

I began my first enterprise, a advertising and marketing company, in 2008 proper earlier than the final huge monetary disaster. Though I can’t advocate beginning a enterprise when the world is in melt-down, we actually needed to study loads of classes in a short time on the time! 

My first enterprise was truly integral to constructing The Happiness Index. Not solely did the thought come from certainly one of our prospects (who’s now our Chief Advertising Officer), however our CTO on the time constructed V1 of our product. It was initially an in-house answer we used! Shortly our prospects began asking to make use of it too, and now we offer a platform that’s utilized by 1000’s of individuals throughout over 100 international locations. 

What’s The Happiness Index and what downside does it resolve?

In a nutshell, we offer a SaaS platform that helps HR and Individuals professionals measure their workforce’s happiness and engagement. Historically, feelings are omitted of the office, however neuroscience reveals us that we have to unite each the pinnacle and the center. By understanding how staff are considering and feeling, companies will thrive. 

How does your enterprise mannequin work and what are your income streams? 

As a SaaS firm, we cost to be used of our platform. Sometimes, prospects join a three 12 months contract which we discover is the very best timeframe to implement large-scale cultural modifications. We cost on a sliding scale by firm measurement. 

We additionally provide a management coaching academy, which permits formidable professionals to familiarize yourself with our neuroscience mannequin to allow them to assist construct thriving cultures.

What does your aggressive panorama appear to be and the way does The Happiness Index differentiate itself? 

In contrast to different measurement firms, we take a look at each happiness and engagement. Inside these broad strokes, we now have a proprietary neuroscience mannequin which makes use of eight key themes. Collectively they assist create a cheerful and engaged workforce, a thriving tradition, and, in flip, a productive organisation.

Now we have over 20 pre-built surveys which concentrate on all points of the worker and organisation lifecycle. In addition to an always-on listening instrument which permits our prospects to gather worker suggestions because it occurs. 

Our know-how is designed to indicate organisations which key neuroscience themes your enterprise is at the moment performing nicely in and areas to enhance. This may permit firms to take finest follow and apply to totally different areas of the organisation, for instance between groups or places.

May you inform us about a few of your largest achievements to this point? 

Final July we launched our Neuroscience improve. This revolutionised how we at the moment are capable of benchmark and analyse information inside our platform. We additionally launched our closing the suggestions loop operate. A instrument which permits managers to enter into conversations about suggestions whereas sustaining full anonymity on behalf of the worker.

Nevertheless, our largest achievement is that we’ve managed to construct our firm with out sacrificing our principals alongside the best way. For us, all the things is about #FreedomtobeHuman. We don’t need to do something if it’s not proper for our folks.  

How do you propose to create a scalable and worthwhile enterprise?

I need to begin by telling you about my favorite happiness research. 

In 2012 Michael West and Jeremy Dawson revealed a paper with The Kings Fund that also shocks me  a decade later! Their research aimed to look right into a hyperlink between worker engagement and job efficiency. They checked out a variety of metrics to measure efficiency. These included issues which are fairly particular to the healthcare trade, resembling mortality, but additionally some which are related to different industries, resembling security measures and affected person (or buyer) satisfaction. They even checked out some which are arguably related to each worker – absenteeism and turnover. 

West and Dawson proved that there have been many clear associations between happiness and office efficiency. Strikingly, the info confirmed that an enchancment in worker engagement of 1 customary deviation led to a lower in affected person mortality of two.4%. This implies if there have been two hospitals, and all the things else was precisely the identical, however one had completely satisfied workers and the opposite had sad workers, extra folks would die within the second hospital!

We run a enterprise, not a hospital. However by listening to our folks, and measuring the happiness AND engagement of a whole bunch of 1000’s of staff throughout 90 international locations, we will see that the identical is true in enterprise.  

I’ve seen numerous information factors that spotlight how specializing in tradition and happiness has modified companies and adjusted lives. You may learn extra about it in my ebook right here. However secure to say, what I realized was that caring about how your staff assume, really feel and behave is vital to operating a thriving enterprise. 

Past this, certainly one of our huge objectives for the approaching 12 months is to turn into B-Corp licensed. We imagine that scalability is all all the way down to sustainability. Should you’re not sustainable, you’re not scalable. 

What do you propose to do with the cash you elevate? 

It’s crucial to us as founders that we create a enterprise with a sustainable progress plan. For that purpose we’ll proceed to steadiness our funding throughout:

• Rising and growing our workforce
• The event roadmap of our platform 
• Increasing our international progress gross sales and partnership functionality

What do you like to do in your free time? 

Spending time open air with my children, I really like taking part in in nature with my son and daughter at any time when I can.

I additionally run each day for my psychological well being, and have been identified to kick a ball about with my mates. Different issues I really like embrace taking my son to the park or my daughter to look at Spurs girls play within the WSL.

Should you weren’t constructing The Happiness Index, what do you assume you’d be doing? 

I grew up on a working farm and I used to assist my mother and father out while rising up. So if I wasn’t operating The Happiness Index, I’d be engaged on a farm attempting to determine the right way to sustainably feed the world.

What’s the largest lesson you’ve learnt to this point constructing The Happiness Index?

After we alpha examined The Happiness Index method again in 2011, we made happiness a goal. However making happiness a goal is like telling somebody who seems to be sad to cheer up. As a substitute we realized to view happiness and emotional information extra like a climate report. For instance, if it’s going to rain, pack an umbrella. If it’s going to snow, be sure to have packed the snow chains.

Right now’s feelings are tomorrow’s efficiency. Emotional information is intelligence firm board and management groups can use to make higher choices.

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To affix Matt and The Happiness Index workforce on their quest to enhance worker wellbeing, take a look at their marketing campaign right here. 

*Primarily based on unaudited administration accounts.

I get it. I actually do. Discovering profitable investments is hard on this atmosphere.

However I do know of an funding that’s not only a winner… it’s near excellent.

Traditionally, it’s been off-limits to nearly everybody however the ultra-rich.

However not anymore.

Let me inform you about it.

Like a Mutual Fund… However for Startups

The funding I’m referring to is a enterprise capital fund.

Enterprise funds are professionally managed portfolios of startup investments.

They’re like mutual funds or ETFs. However as a substitute of containing a portfolio of public shares, they include a portfolio of personal startups.

It doesn’t matter what you’re investing in, diversification is essential. But it surely’s particularly essential with startups. Usually talking, startups are riskier than shares. So to attenuate your danger on this asset class, you want a portfolio of them.

But it surely’s value it…

From 55% a yr… to a 2,000x Return

You see, the earnings from startups could be far greater than the earnings from shares.

Traditionally, shares have returned a median of about 6% a yr.

However even whenever you issue within the winners and the losers, over the previous 20 years, early-stage startups have returned a median of 55% per yr. (To place that in perspective, at 55% per yr, in 20 years, you would flip $500 into greater than $3.2 million.)

And if you happen to occur to get a Google or a Fb or an Amazon in your startup portfolio, you would earn tons of and even hundreds of occasions your cash.

For instance, our pal and colleague Howard Lindzon made 400x his cash by investing in Uber again when it was an early-stage personal startup. That’s sufficient to show each $5,000 he invested into $2 million.

And Fb’s first personal investor made about 2,000x his cash. That’s sufficient to show each $5,000 into $10 million. Are you able to think about?

Sadly, getting right into a enterprise fund is less complicated stated than finished…

The Challenges with Enterprise Funds

For instance, the minimal funding to get right into a enterprise fund is usually six to seven figures, and sometimes much more.

So at a naked minimal, it’ll value you $100,000 simply to get your foot within the door.

However that’s not the one hurdle. Listed below are just a few others:

Fiercely Aggressive: Due to their stellar efficiency, getting right into a enterprise fund is not any simple feat. Except you could have a connection to somebody on the within, there’s nearly no approach you’re getting in.

Alongside for the Journey: With enterprise funds, you haven’t any say in how your capital is invested. You may need many years of expertise in a selected business, and also you may uncover that your fund supervisor made a horrible funding in that sector. However there’s nothing you are able to do about it. You’re simply alongside for the journey.

The Charges: And eventually, there’s the charges. Not solely do fund managers take a 2% administration price every year, however additionally they take 20% to 30% of your earnings. That would add as much as tons of of hundreds of {dollars} over time.

So, positive, enterprise capital funds supply enormous upside…

However not solely are there challenges in moving into one within the first place…

However even if you happen to might get into one, there’s loads of draw back.

The entire Upside, Not one of the Draw back

However what if you happen to might get all of the positives of a standard enterprise capital fund…

With not one of the negatives?

What if you happen to might put your self ready to earn the possibly life-changing returns that enterprise capital funds supply…

However with not one of the drawbacks like excessive funding minimums or excessive charges?

Effectively, now you possibly can…

Be part of us on Could 24th

On Tuesday, Could 24^th, Matt and I will likely be internet hosting a particular on-line seminar to indicate you precisely how.

Throughout our presentation, we’ll stroll you thru this chance intimately, and present you the way to get entry to it instantly.

This might be one of the crucial thrilling displays we’ve ever hosted for you.

Actually, due to the robust demand we’re anticipating, we’ve determined to host two displays on Could 24th. These displays are free to attend for all Crowdability readers, however you’ll want to join upfront to say one of many seats.

Click on one of many hyperlinks under to pick out the time you’d wish to attend:

Click on right here to sign-up for the 1:00 PM (EST) presentation »

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We will’t wait to see you there!

Finest Regards,

Wayne Mulligan
Founder
Crowdability.com

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ECHO is a small yellow robotic presently dwelling with a colony of emperor penguins in Antarctica. The robotic is a part of a undertaking by Woods Gap Oceanographic Establishment learning local weather change’s affect on the South Pole’s most iconic inhabitants. Physicist Daniel Zitterbart, who has been working alongside ecologist Céline Le Bohec, tells us about how ECHO works, what the undertaking is attempting to attain, and his hopes for the long run.

Netflix’s Love, Demise + Robots is again, with Quantity three premiering on Friday. Within the meantime, although, the darkish, NSFW comedy anthology has a whole new episode out there to stream on YouTube titled “Exit Methods”, with the robots persevering with their investigation into the tip of the (human) world.

Be part of the trio of droids, Okay-VRC, XBOT 4000, and 11-45-G, as they appear into the potential survival of people who rocketed to Mars. The brand new episode options some satirical gems, together with a couple of digs at tech billionaires (ahem, Elon Musk), the elite, and American politicians.

The newest post-apocalyptic take comes, as soon as once more, from acclaimed sci-fi author John Scalzi. Watch the total ten-minute episode above for a sneak-peak into the following steps within the robotic quest for solutions.

Love, Demise + Robots Quantity three premieres on Netflix on Could 20.

Need extra?

We’re excited to introduce you to our new fee methodology, Pay by Financial institution.

Pay by Financial institution is an modern fee methodology providing you with a quick and guarded method of processing transactions with Seedrs immediately out of your financial institution, powered by Banked.com. 

The very best half? 

There’s no must arrange an account or manually enter your card particulars. The method is fast, secure and safe. 

How does it work?

Pay by Financial institution capabilities seamlessly through a Choose, Join and Approve mannequin:

• ​​Choose Pay by Financial institution : at checkout
• Hook up with your financial institution
• Authorise fee

Why are we introducing Pay by Financial institution?

We worth simplicity and clear communication. We wish all processes, transactional or not, to be clear. Plus, your expertise goes method past what you see on-line.

Banked supplies a world class expertise with biometric authentication, taking safety and privateness to a different degree. You’ll be able to belief that you simply’re in secure palms with a safe connection to your banking app of alternative. Your financial institution particulars are by no means shared with anybody and there’s nothing to log into, you’re simply able to go. Banked have achieved this by enabling you to pay on-line through your checking account, streamlining checkout with no information entry required. 

You don’t must solely profit from Banked with us, they’ve partnered with Financial institution of America to carry this characteristic to e-commerce platforms.

When investing within the companies we showcase, there’s sufficient thought and energy going into making the suitable alternative for you. The very last thing you’ll want to fear about is the technicality and safety of fee.

That’s what Banked and Seedrs are right here for.

It’s additionally an enormous plus for the companies you’re investing in. Pay by Financial institution gives a low value fee methodology, so extra of your cash goes on to the funds supporting that firm. A win win for all. 

To study extra about Banked, go to their web site right here. 

*Observe: this selection is simply accessible for GBP campaigns and UK residents.

All of us love an unhinged NextDoor thread (besides the racist ones), however we adore it extra when you possibly can put faces to these usernames as an alternative of a string of varied hypothetical Karens and Kens. Kudos to whichever author at Jimmy Kimmel Dwell determined to makes these faces extraordinarily well-known ones, and corralled an entire bunch of massive names to behave out one neighborhood’s involved dialogue of some unsavory native exercise.

Usually when a late evening host guarantees a bit that includes “Hollywood’s most beloved actors” they’re stretching the reality considerably, however might I current: Lisa Kudrow, Donald Glover, Michael Chiklis, Diane Kruger, Giancarlo Esposito, Anthony Carrigan, Eiza Gonzalez, Jake Johnston, Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Scott, Nick Kroll, Jason Segel, Brian Tyree Henry, Sam Richardson, and Henry Winkler enthusiastically sprucing a candlestick.

Are most of those individuals higher identified for making TV than Hollywood movies? Positive! However who cares? There’s even a mini X-Information sort-of reunion, with each Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny displaying up. Most are solely onscreen for a second, however they actually convey this (purportedly actual) thread to life.

So in case you’ve ever wished to see this particular group of individuals focus on the most effective plan of action to cope with a neighborhood masturbator, immediately is your fortunate day. And if Brian Tyree Henry does not lastly get that Emmy for the most recent season of Atlanta, possibly he’ll get it for his flawless studying of the road “BEAR SPRAY.”

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Velocity Capital Advisors are consultants within the meals and beverage trade. They’re identified to again the likes of Wild Radish and Full Inexperienced. So when Raj Saxena, Managing Director, tells you “ZAG has the potential to do what Redbull did with vitality drinks”, you already know a model is onto one thing. 

ZAG is a serious disruptor within the NoLo alcohol market, just lately launching into the hospitality trade. Their alcohol free drink is formulated from a mix of botanicals together with kombucha, inexperienced tea and citrus. They’re obsessed with making a beverage that anybody can take pleasure in, is wholesome and is present for the state of the world right now. 

Gross sales of non-alcohol drinks rose sharply prior to now yr by 33.2%, totalling $331 million. IWSR, a drink market analyst agency, predicts the trade to develop by 31% by 2024. This rise is parallel with shopper demand which is just going up. 

Delicate drinks will be stuffed with sugar, overly candy and really unhealthy. Then again, alcohol incorporates about 7 energy per gram. All which don’t present the important minerals our our bodies have to perform. For the well being acutely aware shopper, there’s an absence of choices for a market that actually wants them. In a British Vitamin Basis survey, 62% of Brits made a change to their weight loss program to get more healthy over the previous yr. 64% of these are eyeing the dietary info extra carefully when deciding what to eat. You’ll be able to wager that a large portion of these are the shoppers contributing to the non-alcoholic spirit gross sales rise of 113.4%. ZAG advantages from the development in direction of on-line gross sales and the benefits of tight shopper focusing on from digital promoting, promoting by way of its personal web site and Amazon.

An enormous a part of this trade is buyer satisfaction which ZAG proves, with prospects taking the trip to go away opinions of their merchandise:

Notably, ZAG has been featured in The Unbiased, Ladies’s Health and extra for his or her developments into the trade. To take their enterprise to the subsequent stage, they’re elevating capital on Seedrs for £180,006. Near the end line and simply days to go, ZAG is worked up to welcome new traders into their group and assist them dominate the rising NoLo market.

How precisely?

With the funds raised, ZAG might be doubling down on their advertising and marketing exercise to scale the notice of the model. Additionally they plan to additional develop new merchandise and discover worldwide licensing alternatives. 

When you’re all in favour of being part of the ZAG story, take a look at their marketing campaign right here.