📈 Uzbekistan Business Confidence Surges in January 2026
💼 Uzbekistan’s business confidence jumped in January 2026, with the composite business climate index reaching 64 points, up 23% year-on-year, according to the Centre for Economic Research and Reforms (CERR).
🌾 Agriculture led growth, rising to 77 points from 48, as nearly half of agribusinesses reported increasing demand. The services sector climbed to 65 points and construction reached 61 points, while industry remained positive at 54 points.
👷♂️ Around 22% of companies have already increased staff, 65% plan workforce expansion, and 71% expect higher demand in the coming quarter.
⚖️ More than half of entrepreneurs (57%) reported no major barriers, with taxes, utilities, and access to finance being the most cited challenges.
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🪙Custom Intros
An upcoming update to the Telegram for Business feature set will include the ability to customize an intro for yourself.
Based on a video from the messenger team, business accounts will be able to edit the look of the greeting message screen that is shown in an empty chat with a user. Currently, by default, this space shows a prompt to send a greeting sticker to the other user.
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🪙Custom Intros
An upcoming update to the Telegram for Business feature set will include the ability to customize an intro for yourself.
Based on a video from the messenger team, business accounts will be able to edit the look of the greeting message screen that is shown in an empty chat with a user. Currently, by default, this space shows a prompt to send a greeting sticker to the other user.
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It's a short essay from HBR.
The essay is not bad, it's just, somehow, trivial.
I didn't know you could write for HBR on such trivial topics. Amazing...
https://hbr.org/2024/01/getting-machine-learning-projects-from-idea-to-execution
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In 2015, there was a company called SixFold. They were one of the first heroes to disrupt an industry that has not changed much for a century, the freight market. They investigated the situation, established their hypothesis, created MVP. They did not succeed. The image is a summary of their post mortem.
There are at least two learning from this story.
- Think in terms of the utility function. Do not just point out blocks of reasons. Write down the utility function for the situation and make assumptions on the parameters.
- Swarm intelligence sometimes works better than one might expect. Improvements in swarm intelligence take a lot of effort if one does not have a smart plan.
Here is the article by their CEO: https://medium.com/@MartKelder/end-of-road-for-trucking-startup-palleter-523a4a906fe9