I participated in another Daniel Gross program, Pioneer, and it was _excellent_. I highly recommend it or this for folks that may be more 'outside the band' when it comes to raising money or getting a startup from 0 to 1. I would note that if you're trying to bootstrap this is probably not the program for you. These guys are incredibly connected in venture capital and this program ought to be a great way to leverage that.
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#22Fuck yes. This is the type of program that can actually hear a proper pitch. I teared up reading it.
As someone who has a lot of tinkering and research underway on a big idea, this motivates me to scrap and scrounge to get the demo party together.
Spending 8k-ish to build a product demo for my friends rich uncle is too uphill for me to risk. But for this, I mean fuck yeah.
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#23So like 1 experienced researcher or 2 college grads for 1 year's worth of salary. Putting it through that perspective, it does not seem like much. Wondering now how much hours of compute this would buy.
It’s a call option on a more lucrative and fulfilling career path.
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#24I'm working on building a search engine specifically to help with prompt engineering https://pagebrain.ai/promptsearch/
Is this useful enough to be a startup?
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#25Is anyone actually using co-pilot? They claim “millions of users” but I seriously doubt millions of programmers opted into paying $10 per month for it. A lot of these stats seem highly suspect.
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#26I'm working on building a search engine specifically to help with prompt engineering https://pagebrain.ai/promptsearch/ Is this useful enough to be a startup?
That's cool! Please do apply.
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#27So like 1 experienced researcher or 2 college grads for 1 year's worth of salary. Putting it through that perspective, it does not seem like much. Wondering now how much hours of compute this would buy.
Alternative view: this is a pre-pre-seed and fills a much needed gap in the VC ecosystem. Well-connected founders raise very early money from "friends and family". Most people don't have wealthy friends and family, so getting the first money in to kickstart the venture is difficult.
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#28Is anyone actually using co-pilot? They claim “millions of users” but I seriously doubt millions of programmers opted into paying $10 per month for it. A lot of these stats seem highly suspect.
I use it, am paying for it, and wouldn't want to code without it.
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#30Cool. I wish more people that had “made it” thought of “giving back” in this way.
Isn't that just angel investing?