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I share my views and insights about startups, entrepreneurship, venture capital, AI and tech.
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We want to pace the frontier but what about pacing its venture funding (opens the original)
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Learning from building a different type of VC for ventures in the physical world (opens the original)
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The AI industry needs less drama (opens the original)
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The future of lean startup is agentic (opens the original)
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The future of lean startup is agentic. I have been working on a new model of Self-improving AI lean startup agentic system. The idea of this concept is not to replace the human customer validation, but to leverage AI to reduce costs of validation and time spent on human validation using 'Customer Twin Agents'. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKXT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%
Over 300 builders and PMs are joining my "Introduction to AI-Driven Lean Startup" session (opens the original)
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