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Boab AI, one of our strategic partners is running an exciting free startup development program open to people living in Victoria, Australia. Generation AI is for first time founders and founding teams, whether you have an existing idea or are starting from scratch. A brief description of the program is below and the link to sign up. The closing date is this Friday! Brief: Learning how to get users, ship products, and raise funds is overwhelming. There’s a million things you have to do, limited resources, and an infinite amount of paths you can take. It can be daunting when you are doing it alone. In this course, you get hands-on experience on how to build a startup following a proven process, avoiding common first time founder pitfalls. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with like-minded peers to learn and build together. Over the course of 8 weeks, you’ll recruit your first users, launch version 1 of your product, and pitch to investors at an exclusive demo day showcase. To review the syllabus and schedule, please visit this page: generationai.au There are a limited number of seats in this cohort. I recommend joining soon. Enrollments close on Friday the 23rd of August. Boab #CIAIRI Amir Nissen Andrew Lai

🚀 Calling all startup innovators and VCs! Join Google for Startups and Zauben Co-Founder Zachary S. for Founder AI Day on Thursday August 29th in Chicago (or virtually) as we explore 'The Future of Product Development is AI'. Whether you're a founder, product manager, or tech enthusiast, this event is designed to give you practical insights and strategies to stay ahead in the AI-driven future. Don't miss this opportunity to network, learn, and grow! Register now: goo.gle/founderfridays #GoogleForStartups #AI #ProductDevelopment #StartupInnovation"

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Hard truth about validating startup ideas is that as much as you want to believe that people are telling you their operational "problems", which may be true, it doesn´t always translate to being a problem they would pay to solve ⛔ The impact of the problem just isn´t big enough to them to justify spending £000k 💳 on software. It´s incredibly easy to get caught up with the excitement around building if there´s no indicators of willingness to solve the problem from their end. Crucial to fold in prospecting questions during discovery to gauge: ⏲️ The material impact of the problem 🛒 What the buying considerations are We aim to implement this daily in validating our Inaugural portfolio companies 🚀 #startups #problemdiscovery #ai #validation Angus Sam

Did you miss our electrifying event, "AI Unleashed: Turbocharging Startup Growth"? We gathered a powerhouse panel featuring industry leaders like Tracy Young (TigerEye), Leah Culver (3-time founder/Angel investor.), Daniel Kivatinos (JustPaid.io), Alex Mashrabov (Higgsfield AI), Neil Madsen (Fabius) and Andy Li (Keywords AI (YC W24)) Check out our video recap capturing all the key takeaways on leveraging AI for explosive startup growth. Stay tuned and follow us for the latest trends and strategies to propel your business forward! #AI #Startups #Growth https://lnkd.in/e_fy9pUk

Uncovering the next startup to invest in is a breeze with Landscape. 💨 Easily filter your target sector and see every startup and founder under that sector! We’ve recently looked into Enterprise startups and here’s what we found 👇 - bryo - Decipher AI (YC W24) - ReByte - roofline 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 🔗

Do you concur, the startup golden age is here? A young friend, late teens entrepreneur was running an initial garage business off her influence developed through TikTok rants that went viral. "Oh Brad, you can do it too. Anybody can get 1 to 5 Million views. Easy peasy!" she would say. I would shake my head in doubt. She was right. She held that valuable thing called audience attention. They quickly graduated to a small factory and staff of 7 in a short time. She exited to travel and pursue other stuff. The timeline was compressed. Throw #automation and #ai apps on top of it all and now you are more than turbo charged to launch. #startups #share #entrepreneurs

📣 Pitching opportunity for AI startup founders 📣 Practice your sales pitch, get exposure for your AI startup, and gain valuable feedback from investors who know the current climate! We are giving three AI startups a chance to present a three- to four-minute pitch at the TechDay AI Founders Day on November 21 at 7 Times Square in NYC. Who qualifies: - Founders must be building AI-enabled products and/or services. Startups in all market verticals qualify - Applicants must have three years of experience in business - Startups must not have raised more than $3 million in funding If you meet all the criteria, fill out this application to be considered: https://lnkd.in/eM6FW29u This is a FREE application opportunity until this Friday, November 1 at 11:59 PM ET. After this date, there will be a $50 application fee. 🔁 Share to spread the word about this opportunity 🔁 #PitchEvent #NYC #Founder #Startup #AI #VentureCapital

2 startup things I’ve read lately that our data disagrees with. 1) Dilution in seed and Series A rounds is rising. Untrue. Dilution median for primary seed continues to be right around 20% and the 75th percentile hasn’t budged much either. Bridge round dilution has ticked up however. 2) Only AI companies are raising. About 30-35% of capital invested this year into early-stage startups on Carta has gone to AI…which means quite a lot has gone elsewhere! Now I will say that percentage is much higher than 2023 - and founders would do well to have a good story around why they aren’t using AI (if you choose that path). But AI ≠ all VC 🙏 Going to do a multi-hundred slide recap of 2024 in VC soon - if you’ve got questions I should answer, drop them in the comments! #startups #founders #venturecapital #seed #SeriesA

🤗 We’ve extended the application deadline to pitch at the TechDay AI Founders Day 🤗 Have an AI-enabled product/service that you want to share with a panel of investors and get valuable feedback? We’re giving a select number of founders the chance to pitch their startups to leading investors in the AI sector. Who qualifies: - Founders must be building AI-enabled products and/or services. Startups in all market verticals qualify - Applicants must have three years of experience in business - Startups must not have raised more than $3 million in funding The deadline is this Friday, November 8 at 11:59 PM ET. To apply, please submit this form: https://lnkd.in/eM6FW29u 🔁 Share to spread the word 🔁 #PitchEvent #NYC #Founder #Startup #AI #VentureCapital