It is using the app platform route pioneered most prominently by Japanese chat app Line, which plugs a selection of apps from invited partners into its service.
With the last class of YC startups, the incubator invited partners from some of the top VC funds in Silicon Valley to hold office hours at YC.
The rules permitted West, the actual declarer, to spread his cards as dummy and invite partner to play the hand.
"We used to have a rural development strategy, but now we have our own policy, and invite partners to align with us … we've changed the rules of the game," said Mamoudou.
For example, if you are organizing a project using Clearspace (another new capability), you can invite partners from other companies to join you for just those projects.
Facebook will personally invite partners, and everyone else will have to apply during the registration period, providing an explanation about why they want to go and why they should be there.
A prerequisite for this direct reciprocity is to identify each partner and remember the history of interactions an error-prone memory would invite partners to cheat.
The CDSMP protocol allows partners of patients with chronic conditions to attend the programme, though for this feasibility study we decided not to invite partners for logistic reasons.
In most projects, southern partners had invited northern partners to continue to have limited but well-defined inputs to strengthening capacity such as tutor training (CS1, CS2), or as collaborators on research proposals (CS2, CS3).
Of 1,993 women who invited their partner, 313 (16%) returned with their partners to ANC.
