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If I were to choose one nugget of advice that I would give to every startup founder, it would be this. "Do not fail. Until you absolutely have to."
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I got an email last week from an investor that was basically a pitch to sell me services with a carrot of potential investment dangled to help sweeten the deal.
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Let's talk about where plugging A.I. into your own business framework makes sense, using the most recent A.I. variant: GPTs.
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It's becoming increasingly obvious that the A.I. business and startup bandwagon is running out of room. It's time to hop on that money train. Right?
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I'm a huge fan of the democratization of technology that allows a non-technical founder to get their ideas into the arena of high-tech entrepreneurship.
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The next wave of Generative A.I. will surely be providing answers to more complex questions. The money will be in automating the creation of those questions.
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When you're a startup leader, you're not trying to become the best at what you do, but rather the best at building the business that does what you do.
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I'm not going to tell you whether or not to shut down your startup. But I will tell you what I've done, because I've been there at least a dozen times.
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Conventional wisdom has always taught the innovator to focus on being great at one thing, then build on that greatness. That's no longer true.
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Bootstrapping a startup with $10,000 may seem like a lot of money or nowhere near enough. Regardless, the trick isn't how much you spend, it's how you spend it.
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Hiring a team to help build one of the first ever Generative A.I. platforms, I discovered the skills you need to be successful with A.I., they're not about writing code.
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The key to avoid being replaced by A.I. isn't to get good at what A.I. does. Far from it. The key is to get great at the things A.I. sucks at.
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Bravado fuels startups to take enough risks to start growing. But as soon as things become real, they realize that their bravado is just that, and they panic.
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Mistral AI just raised $113 million exactly one month after formation. How long does it really take for a startup to achieve "overnight success"?
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If I come up with what I believe to be a great startup idea, and if I can't put it into one of these 4 categories, I've learned to bury the idea before it buries me.
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The truth is that most startups do pricing wrong, and they almost always err on the side of underpricing. It's a common mistake made in the name of customer acquisition.
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