Another one from our call-in show:
At the earliest stages, when someone is asking for more data, more meetings or more customer references the answer is no.
No one get conviction in Excel and data rooms are where dreams go to die…
Last week on our call-in show we translated VC feedback for a founder who was confused by some of the reasons a VC gave them for passing.
Running it back tomorrow night. If you’re interested in a call, DM for a time slot…
The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (@madisonmills22 / Axios)
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This has become such an annoyance, everyone chasing the same 100x opportunities.
How does the “midfield” of founders that still cares about building in currently unsexy categories like Consumer find funding? Is the answer in FO? Or angels? Or bootstrapping? (Assuming that needs are not immediately capital intensive). Or are all investors just oriented towards AI multiples while the getting is good?
A lesson most of the hyper scalers will have to learn- FDE is not the same as Professional Services.
The amount of software, skills and tooling for real transformation are fundamentally different from previous forms of engagement.
And the margins are much better too…
A lesson most of the hyper scalers will have to learn- FDE is not the same as Professional Services.
The amount of software, skills and tooling for real transformation are fundamentally different from previous forms of engagement.
And the margins are much better too…
@braveben@bryce@maxaltman I can't say it's never happened; who knows.
That said, I have serious skepticism about it as any kind of viable/repeatable strategy.
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