Extending Product Roadmaps with Generative AI: Acrolinx CEO Volker Smid (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do after? Volker Smid: Fulfilled my lifelong dream to go to the US. It was in 2000. Sramana Mitra: To what company? Volker Smid: It was a US-German company that went public in the year 2000. It was called Poet. We had a marketplace catalog product, which was a big

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Extending Product Roadmaps with Generative AI: Acrolinx CEO Volker Smid (Part 1)

In this conversation, Volker discusses how his company is extending its product line with Generative AI, and also, very specific new startup ideas leveraging the capabilities of Generative AI. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

Catching Up On Readings: AI Regulation

This feature from The Financial Times by Marietje Schaake, International policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, discusses why CEOs should be kept away from AI regulation. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped While in School, Raised Money Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  True to our mantra, Co-founder Mark Newman bootstrapped HireVue to $1M in revenue before raising the first funding. When we spoke in 2015, the company had raised a total of $92 million, and was doing $30 million in revenue. Excellent case study to study! Sramana Mitra:

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New Student Entrepreneur Startups Course and June Udemy Course Coupons

We have packaged our proven 1Mby1M methodology for building technology startups into short courses on Udemy as a part of our aim to democratize entrepreneurship education at scale globally. In addition to offering you up to 85% off the following Udemy courses this month, we are introducing the new course, Student Entrepreneur Startup Case Studies.

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Capital Efficient Strategy for Generative AI Startups: Aisera CEO Muddu Sudhakar (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The PaaS business is getting harder and harder to do because the big players are so entrenched. It’s so expensive. The stack is so expensive from an infrastructure and computing point of view. You can’t really play the PaaS game as a startup anymore. Let’s switch to what you’re seeing on the go-to-market

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