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The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by ElProlactin »

Schiendelman wrote: post #20

I think it's easy for those already in the tech industry to pooh-pooh this, as the previous comments on this post have. Right now, people with ideas prompt their LLM by saying "I know how to make x, how do I turn that into a business?" Anthropic knows that, and releasing a playbook like this is a way to make people who haven't asked that question think to ask it. For a non-technical person with a small business they…

> I truly think that people in the tech industry do not understand how hard technology is for people who aren't in it.

When it comes to AI, a lot of them don't want to understand because it threatens their livelihood.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by LtWorf »

ElProlactin wrote: post #30
Oras wrote: post #22

AI has changed the build for sure, it is a lot easier to build now, a lot easier to practice multiple copywriting ideas, do market research ... etc. There is something that will never change for being a founder, you need to sell, and for that you need network and credibility. It was never about the building, its all about the selling. AI has not changed that.

> AI has not changed that. But it has. AI can help you do market research, develop buyer personas, evaluate potential customers, create, analyze and enrich prospect lists, evaluate marketing channels, create ad copy, write sales scripts, think through objections and how to respond, etc. Will it turn you into Jordan Belfort? No. Will it be 100% successful or effective? No. But can it help enough to make a difference?…

AI generated market research won't necessarily match reality.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by dmujic »

hypfer wrote: post #6

Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…

Yeah, and these days it really isn't a big deal to build things; it's much bigger challenge to actually develop a distribution channels and cut through the noise. I think people are just overwhelmed with everything and attention span is shorter and shorter. And that's the real issue - what I am finding now is that again the thing that really works is good old actual human conversation with potential clients.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by ElProlactin »

LtWorf wrote: post #33
ElProlactin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AI has not changed that. But it has. AI can help you do market research, develop buyer personas, evaluate potential customers, create, analyze and enrich prospect lists, evaluate marketing channels, create ad copy, write sales scripts, think through objections and how to respond, etc. Will it turn you into Jordan Belfort? No. Will it be 100% successful or effective? No. But can it help enough to make a difference?…

AI generated market research won't necessarily match reality.

And? Spending 1000s of hours searching on Google, reading human-written market research reports, etc. won't necessarily "match reality" either.

AI is a tool. A starting point. A feedback mechanism. It's not the end all or be all.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by nieksand »

LtWorf wrote: post #33
ElProlactin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AI has not changed that. But it has. AI can help you do market research, develop buyer personas, evaluate potential customers, create, analyze and enrich prospect lists, evaluate marketing channels, create ad copy, write sales scripts, think through objections and how to respond, etc. Will it turn you into Jordan Belfort? No. Will it be 100% successful or effective? No. But can it help enough to make a difference?…

AI generated market research won't necessarily match reality.

Nor will human generated market research.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by Netcob »

Especially as someone outside the US, building a startup on AI sounds like a bad idea. Some AI company fails to pay their bribes on time, or your country doesn't cede territory to the US president, the AI gets yoinked and you are left with Mistral or Qwen.

(Technically that also applies to MS Teams, Google and so on and not just AI)

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Post by hatefulheart »

Oras wrote: post #22

AI has changed the build for sure, it is a lot easier to build now, a lot easier to practice multiple copywriting ideas, do market research ... etc. There is something that will never change for being a founder, you need to sell, and for that you need network and credibility. It was never about the building, its all about the selling. AI has not changed that.

With all due respect this reads a little deranged. To sell something to the masses you fundamentally need a product to sell. I'll agree that how you market the product can be a "product" in itself, but that only gets you so far. If it was never not about the building why waterfall vs agile why velocity why stakeholder why business analysts why meetings why board members pushing for features?

This is like when AI bros claim that AI has changed absolutely everything for their project but the first thing they do is reach for docker compose, react and postgres. Why don't you forget the bloat and have your LLM make your container, vdom differ and lightweight DB?

It's very surreal to have to point this out.

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