Serial founder living in Los Angeles & NYC. MIT Media Lab PhD (CV, ML, AI, immersive). Knight of the Republic of Italy for work that blends art and technology.
I have invested in over 250 pre-seed startups, mostly in B2B software. The most successful ones have had some distribution tricks to quickly get their first happy customers.
Here are the Best (and worst) distribution wedges I have seen for Pre-Seed software startups.
@sama It's such a helpful tool in a variety of tasks. Are you comfortable sharing the percentage of actual utilization vs expectation? Is it 30% more or perhaps 50%?
@brandonhli@Airbnb I had a very similar bad experience with @Airbnb in NYC and have used the platform very little or not at all since then. Customer service is non existant. Reminds me of mr malaussene from Daniel Pennac
@AlanaDLevin California is a great place to think, build and stay healthy. It's a great place to be after years at MIT spending long hours in the labs.
Throwback to the interactive dance performance software I crafted for a show at REDCAT in LA! 🕺💃 From computer vision tracking to responsive graphics, I had my hands on every piece of code. 🖥️ With interactive performances making a comeback, I'm excited to dive back #digitalart
0/ Today we are launching ✨The Getting Started with AI JS Stack✨ https://t.co/7glgmTfXb7
- 🔒@clerk for auth
- 💻@pinecone / @supabase pgvector for vector database
- 🎨@replicatehq for image model
- 🤖@OpenAI for text model
- 🌐@flydotio for deployment
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🚨 This week has been nothing short of extraordinary.
Nvidia AI ad
Unity new AI
Japan's New Plan
RealityScan X Unity
Microsoft Free Course
AI "Anime" in Real Time
Record memories in 3D
Google Controllable Image
Nvidia 3d Graphics Structure
Here's what you need to know:
10 years of my life was building software companies.
My last one sold for $100M.
I doubt I’ll ever return to pure-play software.
So here are my cheat codes:
@AprilynneAlter A spinoff I created was early for the programs I applied to. In an earlier case we were the perfect fit and had good metrics, so I can't get the woman founder factor out of my head. Be passionate about solving the problem. The rest is ego - albeit women are entitled to their ego.
@ljin18 Sounds like a cynical and judgemental person or perhaps someone who has had terrible experience with their HOA. One could argue that culture matters in DAOs. When I see the creativity in the proposals of @nounsdao I know this person that you mention doesn't have the full picture