Building a Generative AI Startup to $10M+ with a Virtual Team: Chris Lu, CEO of Copy.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What do you offer? Chris Lu: When we first started, we were more of a copywriting app. We help write your email copy or sales copy. However, that has transformed over the years. Our entire vision has always been the business’ business. How do we become the product that helps your business assemble

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Building a Generative AI Startup to $10M+ with a Virtual Team: Chris Lu, CEO of Copy.ai (Part 1)

Chris and Paul have built a front-end to Open AI and a significant business with over $10M in revenue. Now, they’re broadening their product capability to business workflows. We also discuss ideas and opportunities for new entrepreneurs. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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Catching Up On Readings: Summer Game Fest 2023

This feature from The Sports Rush covers the game announcements, reveals, and trailers from the Summer Game Fest held online last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Extending Product Roadmaps with Generative AI: Acrolinx CEO Volker Smid (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: It seems like Microsoft, AWS, Google will create sophisticated AI-optimized cloud environments. These environments are going to be so advanced that you would be hard-pressed to argue against using one of those. Volker Smid: The other aspect is if you have the system on-premise, it’s hard to be connected to external services. All

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Extending Product Roadmaps with Generative AI: Acrolinx CEO Volker Smid (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: From your product roadmap point of view, you operate in the post-content production scenario mostly, right? You’re looking at content and governing content. You’re not involved in the production piece. Volker Smid: We are also involved in the content production piece because we provide the side bar for the authoring environment. When an

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Extending Product Roadmaps with Generative AI: Acrolinx CEO Volker Smid (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The objective is learning. What your technology is doing is, it’s streamlining that learning. Volker Smid: By helping the author to align the content with the objective. The objective is learning. You need to use technical, simplified English. The content needs to be measured against clarity. Sometimes it’s as easy as saying you

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Extending Product Roadmaps with Generative AI: Acrolinx CEO Volker Smid (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2015? Volker Smid: I decided to go back to my roots. Sramana Mitra: Start another company? Volker Smid: No, I was joining a company with very little revenue. It was the second largest SEO platform in the world called Searchmetrics. I became the CEO of Searchmetrics to get the company

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped First Venture, Raised Money for the Next

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  As a variation on our ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’ theme, we also see many entrepreneurs who have bootstrapped a first company (or business), and then gone onto venture-fund a second. Christian Chabot built Tableau Software in this mode. Sridhar Vembu built Zoho. We have numerous examples

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