Capital Efficient Strategy for Generative AI Startups: Aisera CEO Muddu Sudhakar (Part 1)

Muddu Sudhakar and I share the perspective that the real opportunity for Generative AI startups is not in building platforms but in piggybacking on other platforms.

This conversation deep dives into the subject with real world examples and explores all the nuances entrepreneurs need to consider.

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Catching Up On Readings: Microsoft Build 2023 

This feature from Engadget covers the highlights of the Microsoft Build conference held in Seattle last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Colors: Thunderstorm IV

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Thunderstorm IV

Thunderstorm IV | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 9  x 12, On Paper

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Capital Efficient Strategy for Generative AI Startups: RavenPack CEO Armando Gonzales (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How big a deal has your infrastructure been as a cost element in the past and now? It does take horsepower to process data.

Armando Gonzales: Because we don’t have access to that type of capital, we had to build a very cost-effective system. Even these days, it’s probably less than 10% of our gross revenues. Because of the type of software and infrastructure we’ve built, we are able to operate very efficiently.

Colors: Thunderstorm III

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Thunderstorm III

Thunderstorm III | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 9  x 12, On Paper

Capital Efficient Strategy for Generative AI Startups: RavenPack CEO Armando Gonzales (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: At this point, you had a customer. You understand your TAM. You are starting to execute. It’s an easier funding situation.

Armando Gonzales: Exactly.

Sramana Mitra: How much did you raise?

Armando Gonzales: $3 million.

Sramana Mitra: 2008?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to $10M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

When we spoke in 2015, CEO Carl Mazzanti has bootstrapped eMazzanti Technologies using services to close to $10 million, maintaining a 20% year-over-year growth rate.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Carl Mazzanti: I was born in Pennsylvania. I come from a military family. A joke that I used as a kid was, “My parents moved around a lot, but I always found them.” Because of that, me and my brother are more outgoing than the rest.

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Cloud Stocks: Nutanix Reimagines Data Centric Platform Services

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