Bootstrapping First, then Raising Money to Build a $10M+ Generative AI Startup: Anthony Scodary, Co-Founder of Gridspace (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are the results of these deployments? Anthony Scodary: For instance, we have one customer that calls when you’re discharged from hospitals, and they call thousands of patients a day. Some people spend twenty minutes talking with Grace. We build all our own language and speech synthesis models, so we’re able to make

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Bootstrapping First, then Raising Money to Build a $10M+ Generative AI Startup: Anthony Scodary, Co-Founder of Gridspace (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about the structure of these. As you were revolving from these pilots to actual deployment, sounds like your platform was strengthening. Who was doing the application layer? Was a part of your team doing the application layer or the customer’s team doing the application layer?

Roundtable Recap: May 16 – Don’t Commit Years Of Your Life on a Bogus Idea

During this week’s roundtable, we had extensive discussion on the ideation phase of businesses. If you are going to commit 5-10 years of your life on a venture, please do so with adequate due diligence. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra

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Bootstrapping First, then Raising Money to Build a $10M+ Generative AI Startup: Anthony Scodary, Co-Founder of Gridspace (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s trace this a little bit more granularly. When did you launch the company? When did you quit your jobs, or did you not quit your jobs? Did you start it before quitting your jobs? Anthony Scodary: No, I quit my job in November 2012 and I think we started a day later.

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July 17 – Rendezvous Meetup with Sramana Mitra

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our next informal meetup. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will join us. Location:Café Borrone1010 El Camino RealMenlo Park, CA 94025 Time: Wednesday, July

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Today’s 640th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 15 minutes, on Thursday, May 16, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Bootstrapping First, then Raising Money to Build a $10M+ Generative AI Startup: Anthony Scodary, Co-Founder of Gridspace (Part 1)

Gridspace is a wonderful case study of a speech technology company on the bleeding edge of Machine Learning and Generative AI. You will learn how the founders managed to bootstrap to large paying customers and then raise strategic funding. You will also learn the nuances of how they used various Open Source components and existing ML

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