Lukas Schulte

"If you're relying on AI not becoming 100X better, you're about to get steamrolled." -- Jason Warner, ex-CTO of Github and CEO of poolside How we code and build software is being rapidly transformed with AI. Sitting down with Jason the future looks clearer. Over the next 5 years: 🌏 All 7 billion people can code 🏗️ Search bars will spit out software 🔋 AI will generate its way out of data scarcity 🌩️ Foundation models to become cloud companies I unpack the 5 year frontier of software development in Future of Code: AI-led Software Development https://lnkd.in/gze2QSbu #AI #Software #Code

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There's now no shortage of options for open source model hosting providers. i.e., take your pick for Llama 3 (Groq, Together AI, Telnyx, etc.). Am I wrong in thinking the only real difference now between them is speed, cost and readability? If so, this space just became commoditized quickly and reminds me of the telco provider wars where its a race to the bottom on price. Which means the cost of running AI applications is approaching something close to zero... 🤯 #ai #cx

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An interesting article below, that demonstrates out how San Diego is punching above its weight.  And how Connect's strategy and execution over time, contintues to be central to that success. The article describes the current state of the market in Seattle.  (And i love Seattle.) It's a market that we tend to track with relative to venture fundings.  They used to kick our butts, we outraised them each of the last three years.  This despite the fact they have 3x as many funds there, and 9x the amount of resident capital there. (per pitchbook) Some key takeaways:  * They continue to compare themselves to SIlicon Valley. Instead, we leverage our proximity. *They whine there's not enough local investors (see note above - they have more than us). We bring over 200 VCs to SD annually! * They say founders are not connected with one another. We bring CEOs together regularly, in a variety of ways - private dinners and through our Springboard program. * They say they need to elevate their image on a national & international stage. Why we created and continue to build Five.Ten.Thirty (aka Inno Day).  * And the last paragraph - they need to concentrate on making their region a great place to live. Our mantra: "It's about Better, not Bigger." (See XEO, TL Fund). THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT. WE ARE ON A MISSION TOGETHER!!!  (Comments, whining, suggestions on SD always welcome.) https://lnkd.in/g6Rq_f2Y

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2025 will be all about Physical AI. BrightAI is putting it to work to fix America’s pipes, power poles, and sewer drains, which are crumbling under the pressure of climate change. With 250,000 sensors deployed on infrastructure across the company, they are collecting data from the physical world to help blue-collar industries be proactive and spot infrastructure flaws before they become disasters. After bootstrapping to $80M in revenue, the company is just now taking on VC dollars to grow its Stateful OS platform. Full story on the platform launch https://lnkd.in/dccWfh7x CC: Alex Hawkinson Nancy Li Smith Erin Dudley Nick Kim

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I just met with the one of the top VCs in Phoenix. Here's how they believe AZ can be one of the top startup states in the next 10 years: 1. Company Formation ⏩ Starting more startups ⏩ Growing big companies ⏩ Selling for big exits 2. Capital Velocity ⏩ More investments into AZ startups ⏩ Reinvesting back into AZ once you've exited 3. Community Vibrancy ⏩ Small/Medium/Big creators hyping up AZ ⏩ Attractive events that bring true value And the community is thriving: Shawn Allard w/ private meetups for SMB owners Sean Huntington 🍯 w/ Founders N Funders events Josue Romero w/ AZ Tech Founder meetups Josue Romero and Daniela Santangelo with Freeway (amazing dashboard to see AZ venture stats + event calendar) No better time to be an AZ Founder 🌵🚀 *** Side Note: can we find a better name to unite the startup valley? YesPHX is okay Silicon Desert is okay but way too cliche at this point

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pro tip: i made the "blazing fast" AI dev stack for y'all! ⌘ Langbase is supa fast!! Deploy your AI agent pipes today. Excited to see what y'all will ship with composable AI. Here's an entirely free and open-source chatbot. ⌘ Open Pipe: https://lnkd.in/g-wU_ZyF 📖 Open-source Chatbot: https://lnkd.in/gT5_wFkc Let's go!

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🚨 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨 Silicon Slopes Summit is Utah’s original and longest-running grassroots startup and tech event. It provides entrepreneurs, startups, and leaders the resources and community they need to succeed. With the pandemic behind us, we’re excited to bring Silicon Slopes Summit back to its original January dates in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival. That said, before we go any further, we have some incredible news: Silicon Slopes Summit is free for all Utahns for the first time ever! For those looking for an upgraded experience, we offer VIP tickets for just $95. That’s hundreds of dollars less than a standard ticket in years past. Thanks to our partners, sponsors, and government leaders, Silicon Slopes Summit is the most accessible tech and startup event in the world. Summit will be hosted in multiple locations throughout the week in both Utah and Salt Lake Valley. There will also be a Startup Alley at Summit this year where startups and entrepreneurs can meet with investors from around the world to pitch their ideas, receive feedback, and promote what they’re building. Of course, we’ll be bringing in world-class leaders and speakers, as we have in the past, but we’ll also be hosting specific tracks and bringing attendees together for curated networking in a way never done before. You don’t want to miss this year’s summit! To register, buy VIP tickets, learn about sponsorship, and apply for your startup to be part of Startup Alley, go to siliconslopes.com/summit.

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Remember Jian Yang’s app, SeeFood, from Silicon Valley? It was a "hot dog detector" that scanned food images and told you whether it was a Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog. As expected, it flopped. But after shutting down SeeFood, Jian Yang’s product was acquired for $4M by the company where he was interviewing. Why? Because they realized the same algorithm could be repurposed to filter inappropriate adult content online—NOW THAT'S A REAL PROBLEM. That’s the power of product positioning: Same technology, different positioning, different results! Over the years, I’ve seen even the best products fail due to poor positioning. So, how do you get it right? Talk to as many people as you can! Use those conversations to build your positioning and narrative. At Sanas, we initially positioned ourselves as an 'accent translation' company. However, after speaking with customers, we realized that we were actually enabling people across the globe to understand each other better. As a result, we repositioned ourselves as a 'speech understanding company.' Since then, we have developed a Noise Cancellation product and are working on Speech Restoration and Speech Enhancement products — all with the spirit of facilitating real-time speech understanding. Positioning your product correctly is as important as building it. Make sure you get it right. Maxim, Shawn, Marty, Ashish, Anant, Monal, Supriya, Andrés, Carya Venture Partners

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Quick tip for those building to grow. ➡️Scaling and feeling overwhelmed? DM if you’re in the chaos. ➡️Share your process building hack in the comments. #growth #founders #scale sclr labs

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Super excited about the *SpotDraft Fall 2024 Release* At SpotDraft, we engineer integrations to fit into your existing ecosystem—not disrupt it. Our Fall 2024 Release comes loaded with features that elevate how legal teams operate within their preferred tools, aligning with our vision that great software should empower teams effortlessly. Here’s what’s new: 1. Microsoft Word Sync I’m particularly excited about this one. Our new MS Word desktop integration allows users to open, edit, and save contracts back to SpotDraft directly in Word. Best of all, it takes a single click to begin reviewing within your favorite editor. In the words of one of our beta testers - “Insane work, much easier, so so much better!” 2. Enhanced Slack Notifications Our new Slack notifications make it much easier to see contract details in an instant including reviewer details & approvals. You can also take action directly from Slack, without leaving SpotDraft! 3. Simplified Salesforce Integration Designed for complex needs, our upgraded Salesforce integration enables multi-account connections, custom field mapping, and dynamic data sync, all with a heavily simplified configuration that is super easy to set up. These integrations aren’t just a few of the enhancements that we are bringing to SpotDraft this fall. They were designed to make SpotDraft a fully adaptable, invisible ally in your daily operations. By meeting teams exactly where they are, we’re transforming SpotDraft into a unified, frictionless source of truth and collaboration. Check out all the new features coming to SpotDraft here: https://lnkd.in/e4Pr2d7y #SeamlessIntegration #ProductManagement #LegalOps #SpotDraft

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Let's talk for a minute about how Harbor compares to Nanit on pricing. Ultimately, Harbor comes with a 10" tablet and beats every other product on functionality many times over... but here are a few points on pricing. Nanit offers two tiers (as of spring 2024) at $120 or $300 per year PER CHILD. If you have two children in their premium tier you're looking at nearly TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS across two years! Harbor has one flat membership per household. For just one child, Harbor is just $33 more across two years than Nanit's camera, floor stand, and Memories plan. It comes with a dedicated 10" tablet and a level of reliability, security, and quality that no WiFi camera app based system can match.

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PSA: If you send a founder product nits + feedback with concomitant screenshots/mocks you instantly vault into being an S-tier user. (Friction logs are even better, of course.)

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Earn royalties for automating troubleshooting steps? See an AI Assistant use your steps to respond to alerts and questions? If you can be in San Francisco on Sat June 22nd, sign up for SRE Day and use discount code KYLE20 so we can provision you a dev environment for our workshop. Link in the comments. I'm also taking volunteers for anyone who wants to race Eager Edgar, one of our AI Assistants, troubleshooting popular Kubernetes-based apps... #sre #devops #platformengineering #whatdoirunwhen

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7 Days left! Gladly, we have over 90 VCs and Angel investors registered for MELT. Let me introduce 17 remarkable investors 👼 【💎VIP Sponsored By】 - Kyle Hudson, Founder of Stacks, Inc - Akash Saraf, Founder of ScaleGenAI - Iris Cheung , Founder of Orbiter Finance ☞ General Partner @ Black Sheep Ventures Industry: Cybersecurity, AR/VR, B2B, AI Focus Stage: Seed - Series A Investment Range: $500k - $1M 💎 Notable: Invested in 12 startups at NTT Group with 6 exits. ☞ Founding Partner @ Element14 Capital Industry: Fintech, AI, B2C, B2B, SaaS, E-commerce, Healthtech, Climate tech Focus Stage:Pre-seed - Pre-series A 💎 Notable: Exited YC company to Life360, then scaled them to $300M+ ARR with 2 IPOs !! ☞ Co-Founder and CEO @ Pario Ventures Industry: Fintech, Healthtech, Climate tech, Agtech, Spacetech, Gaming, Mobility, B2B Focus Stage: Pre-seed - Series B Investment Range: $30M - $100M 💎 Notable: Turning Pario into a $1.8B AUM ☞ Senior Principal @ Presidio Ventures Industry: SaaS, B2B, Robotics, Cybersecurity, AI Stage: Pre-series A - Series B Investment Range: $100M+ ☞ Senior Investment Director @ Sony Ventures Industry: Fintech, Web3, Cybersecurity, AI, SaaS, B2B, Mobility Stage: Seed - Series C Investment Range: $200k - $10M ☞ Principal @ Counterpart Ventures Industry: Fintech, Healthtech, Climate tech, Edtech, Proptech, Insurtech, Cybersecurity, AI, B2B, SaaS, E-commerce Stage: Seed - Series A Investment Range: $1M - $10M ☞ Principal @ Acorn Pacific Ventures Industry: Fintech, Biotech, Robotics, B2B, SaaS Stage: Seed - Series A Investment Range: $1M - $3M ☞ President @ Oridun Capital Management Industry: Proptech, Climate tech, AI Stage: Pre-seed, Seed Investment Range: $50k - $200k ☞ Managing Partner @ Aurelia Ventures Industry: B2B, SaaS, Fintech, Govtech, Cybersecurity, AI Stage: Pre-seed, Seed Investment Range: $50k - $100k ☞ Managing Partner @ Borusan Ventures Industry: Climate tech, Mobility, AI Stage: Seed - Series A Investment Range: $300k - $1M ☞ Managing Partner @ Actuate Ventures Industry: Various Stage: Pre-seed - Pre-series A Investment Range: $1M - $3M ☞ Manager @ Marubeni Corporation Industry: Healthtech, Climate tech, Retailtech, Biotech, Mobility, Robotics, Cybersecurity, B2B, SaaS, AI Stage: Pre-series A - Series D Investment Range: $500k - $10M ☞ LP @ Pioneer Fund Industry: Healthtech, Climate tech, Edtech, Agtech Stage: Pre-seed - Series A Investment Range: $50k - $100k ☞ General Manager @ Presidio Ventures Industry: Fintech, SaaS, B2B, Web3 Stage: Seed - Series B Investment Range: $1M - $3M ☞ General Partner @ Astera Ventures Industry: AI, B2C, B2B Stage: Seed, Pre-series A Investment Range: $200k - $500k ☞ Founding Partner & GP @ Actuate Ventures Industry: Biotech, Spacetech, Adtech, Robotics, Various Stage: Pre-seed Investment Range: $100k - $3M ☞ Founder & Managing Partner @ Niremia Collective Industry: Healthtech, AI, AR/VR, B2C, B2B, Various Stage: Pre-seed - Series A Investment Range: $200k - $300k

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Code Willing’s concordance solution accelerates data ingestion, modelling, simulations and backtesting. Enables quants to get tested trading strategies to production markedly faster. We partnered with Code Willing on a similar premise - to accelerate the integration of ‘alt’ data (ie data without reliable identifiers). Alt data is increasingly important to trading strategies, so having an easy button for data integration is another example of time to value.

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I'm excited to announce our newest product💥 💥 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 **You do not need to live in Nevada to use this trust. You just need a licensed Nevada trustee. This product works best for: ▶ Startup founders and execs ▶ VC and PE investors The benefits of this trust include: ---> ZERO state capital gains tax (Nevada is a 0 tax state) ---> Bulletproof asset protection (better than a prenup) ---> Unlimited QSBS potential (you can stack trusts to eliminate federal taxes) My cofounders and I started Dynasty 2 years ago specifically to bring this product to market 🤠 We were 1st employees at Carta and were fortunate enough to take some money off the table. But we paid enormous taxes (over 50%)! On the flip side we met a serial founder who leveraged Dynasty trusts and paid ZERO taxes on over $50m in capital gains 😮 The second we heard about this, we knew we needed to start Dynasty so this product could be available to everyone... So if you are a founder, investor, or anyone with high growth assets - check us out!

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I had an absolute blast with Michel Gagnon and the Stun and Awe crew - THANKS again for having me... Sneak peek of the substance below: > Micro SaaS companies can be just as safe and stable as larger businesses, offering lower valuations and less competition from institutional players. > Founder-product fit is crucial, as founders solving their own problems often create useful products with great retention. > Founder burnout can be a buying signal, indicating a solid business with a founder ready to move on. > The first 90 days post-acquisition should focus on visibility, documentation, transition, and validating diligence assumptions before pursuing growth. > Building transparently and maintaining open communication with users post-acquisition helps preserve the human element and avoid the pitfall of going silent. > Simplicity equals mastery - if it takes a complex explanation to justify an acquisition, you probably don't fully understand the business. > Establishing reasonable incremental growth goals based on baseline performance (systems over goals) is more effective than setting arbitrary targets. > Fostering a culture of care and respect enables honest feedback and allows teams to move faster through a shared commitment to truth-seeking.

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Apple to developers: Heads I win, tails you lose (part 4) In pursuing DMA compliance, Apple’s changes to link-out, in aggregate, don’t make its more use feasible: it’s another example of a “Heads I win, Tails you lose” proposition from the company. The new fee structure, to my mind, erodes the commercial benefits of the new, less-restrictive link-out rules. Developers only save 5% relative to App Store payments on transactions for the first year after a user’s installation, and fees apply to transactions that take place on any platform. The user-level attribution burden and reporting requirements alone render the 5% savings unattractive, not to mention the conversion friction inherent with (admittedly, less intimidating) disclosure sheet and off-platform transaction process.

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