If your messaging is like: "We're an AI-Powered, disruptive platform that leverages technology to empower..." Stop it.

Emily Heyward, CEO @redantler helped Hinge + Casper go viral. Can she help a founder fix their messaging and scale past $6M? Find out: youtu.be/i6wjqXPHgzI?si…

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If you're interested in what an agentic business model looks like you can fine out more details in this new article. It covers what an opportunity looks like and a framework to identify the best new opportunities. #agentic #outcomebased

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I'm looking for startups with business models that turn potential customers into vendors. #Agentic #outcomebased

Starting my new role as an unofficial @Waymo ambassador. Dean's first autonomous ride. It was a scenic route for sure but, very impressive at several decision points.

Request for Startups:

We're looking for teams with outcome based business models. This means the team is so good at solving the customer's problem that they can guarantee results at a fixed rate. Reply if this is your team or tag a team in the comments.

Capital without the Venture
@BuybackVC, we're looking for bootstrapped founders with LLCs that have a $300,000 opportunity that will generate enough free cash flow in 3 years so they can buy back a majority of our equity.

Tag an amazing founder, who's too humble to ask for help.

Find me @ andywhite.me

This is awesome! So much nuance to fundraising. I love that @HustleFundVC is open sourcing it for founders

Pitch this "Mean VC" & get rigorous critique that sharpens your strategy, challenges your assumptions, and helps prepare you for IRL investors.
Link: chat.openai.com/g/g-TtYJjBhs3-…@yoheinakajima

My @TEDTalks is live!

Join me in this exploration of "identity" as I touch on our complex nature, the collective conscious, limitations of language, with a strong nudge to see the opportunity today to build a better future with AI.

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If you’re new to SD or looking to get into the local startup scene, seeing which events to attend can be overwhelming. That’s why our SSD team partnered with The Social Coyote to create the San Diego Startup Calendar.

🚀 Learn more: ow.ly/xgxV50QoLSk

#StartupSD

According to @navrinasingh, the founder and CEO of Credo AI, the successful companies are the ones that involve people from data science, risk, compliance, and policy, so that everyone understands what’s at stake.

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A few weeks ago, I built an OpenAI Chat playground clone for a client using
- @nextjs 13 app router
- @tailwindcss
- @shadcn UI
- Vercel AI SDK

Now it's open source here
github.com/stephenw310/op…

Feel free to play around and use it for your own projects.

Introducing WIDOW - our second album! It's a vibey collection of Greek & Macedonian folk songs for voice & banjo. widowrecord.com

Dec 12th 📆 1-2pm 🕐
Join us for a chat with experts from Cooley LLP, NuFund Venture Group, Ankona Capital, and Aquacycl. Get insights on what investors consider when backing your startup.

Register ➡️ bit.ly/3szbv8W

This might be the coolest thing ever... a hawk on bird patrol @SphereVegas.
#reinvent

This may not be a good start to the day. Aria tram is moving slower than I can walk... Call for help if you don't hear from me in the next couple of hours.
Cc: @MGMResortsIntl @MGMRewards

Published the slides and notes from my @MainStSummit presentation titled:

"The Indie Era of Startups" bryce.medium.com/the-indie-era-…

What Amazon’s doing really well with the launch of the Amazon Q GenAI assistant is really illustrating that it’s a platform. They’ve shown real integrations across a broad domain of use cases to help people understand the potential. #reinvent