My hunch is that something pretty seismic has changed in the past few days Mastodon used to have to compete with Twitter – a free, ad-supported service. Why pay for Mastodon if Twitter is free? Twitter seems to be setting a new expectation that $8/month is a fair price to pay!
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Navigating Startup Pivots While Keeping Stakeholders Engaged
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Startups often pivot, but changes in direction can seem a betrayal to stakeholders who believed in the venture early on (like customers or user communities) How to navigate this? Bring them along! Exposing stakeholders to the struggles that led to the pivot rebuilds the old bond
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Twitter’s Risk Calculus Shifts After Going Private
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I would also add that the risk calculus for Twitter has changed. At a large public company, risk is avoided (which can be a good & safer thing, but slows change). Private companies, and especially entrepreneurial ones, make bigger bets with higher risk of failure or big returns.
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Montreal AI Building AGI Merch and NFT Brands
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AI | AGI Merch WE ARE BUILDING AI Clothes | AGI Clothes AIChampagne.Eth | AIWhisky.Eth | AIBeer.Eth https://
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OpenAGI: Montreal’s Initiative Winning the AGI Race
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"OpenAGI" Discord: http://
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Entrepreneurial Decision Making Under Uncertainty
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I think about #10 & #11 a lot. They apply to entrepreneurs & also basically any expert who has ever had to make a decision under uncertainty.
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Understanding AI Startup Models in New Era
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we very likely will in the future! want to really understand what works for AI startups first; i think we are entering a pretty new era
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Y Combinator Offers Funding and Model Access for AI Startups
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we will write you a check, give you preview access to new models, and try to help with ML issues and strategy. YC is YC. you could happily do both!
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AI Impact Preparation Guide for Startups
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not related to YC. YC is the best accelerator in the world and i expect it to remain that way for a long time; this is very specifically to help startups rapidly come up to speed on what's about to happen with AI.
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AGI focus: unlocking massive value for startup ecosystem
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we will remain very focused on AGI, but we think there will be a _gigantic_ amount of value unlocked for the world along the way. we want to enable startups to go after it.