Tag: Startups
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“We went from 120 people down to 12. Laying them off was incredibly hard.” We’ll call this founder “Jim.” When I spoke with Jim recently, he looked tired but determined. Jim was doing everything to keep his company alive. That meant getting rid of most of his team. Cutting Off…
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The right images can get millions of eyes on your startup. This morning, I used the new Grok Imagine 2.0 to make creative for a fake startup: Chamath’s sweater emporium. Round #1: Making an Ad for the Grand Opening I’m picturing blonde wood, Nordic design, and endless piles of buttery…
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+ Ads, Advertising, AI, AI Images, Artificial Intelligence, Creative, Entrepreneur, Founders, Grok, Marketing, Startups+
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I’m heading back to Japan in early 2027. But Madonn, are those flights expensive! Fortunately, I got early access to an AI assistant that can help… Instinct Becomes My Personal Travel Agent Instinct is a new AI personal assistant. You talk to it via iMessage or WhatsApp. It’s in private…
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Elon dropped his most powerful AI model ever last week: Grok 4.6. I just used it to make a slick app for angel investors in minutes. Building My First App with Grok 4.6 I want an app to track all the deals I pass on. Right now, I track them…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Entrepreneur, Founders, Grok, SpaceX, SPCX, Startups, Vibe Coding, xAI+
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“We need $1 million.” You may need it. But does anyone want to give it to you? So many founders treat venture capital like a gas station. When you’re out, come in for a refill! That worked in 2021. It doesn’t work now. What you need is not the investor’s…
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Ever dreamed about building a viral app? My buddy Jesse Bray did it. Jesse had an idea for an app called TimTalk — a hillbilly Twitter. People loved the demo…but building a scalable app proved more difficult than Jesse expected… We Won $5,000 for an App That Didn’t Exist How…
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“How did you know Instacart would be a big success?” I asked a VC who was one of the first investors. His answer surprised me… “I didn’t.” I sat there slack-jawed. “They had a good product, they were expanding quickly from neighborhood to neighborhood in San Francisco.” he continued. “It…
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You started your own business. But your family and friends aren’t buying it — why not get a real job? If no one believes in you, here’s what to do… Stop expecting them to! It’s not other people’s job to believe in you. That’s your job. People Don’t Believe What…
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Are you spending a fortune on tokens? How does $0.05 per million sound? This morning, I tried one of the cheapest LLM’s in existence. Turns out, it’s surprisingly powerful. Llama 3.1 8B on Groq costs just $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens. That’s over 100x…
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If you’re old enough to have had a flip phone, you probably remember that images looked terrible on that tiny screen. But a friend of mine, Jesse Bray, figured out how to stream HD video to those little screens as early as 2005. How he did it is the story…
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Tremendous 