Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So, what you’re saying is that you got this input about what the market was looking for, and because they were paying customers on the first piece of the functionality, you were able to get them to give you access to data. Because in all of this, as you know, in building AI products, access to data is one of the big gating items so that you can develop anything without problems.

John Wallace: Yes. We cannot build these products in a laboratory. We need to do it in the trenches with customer data.

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Roundtable Recap: February 1 – Premature Funding Plans Never Materialize

During this week’s roundtable, we dealt with two scenarios that each need to figure out bootstrapping strategies to mitigate the lack of early stage funding.

gestr

First, we had Anthony Dobaj from Draper, Utah, pitch gestr. This discussion is a good case study for crowdfunding as a way of early bootstrapping.

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Next, Chetan Barot from Nairobi, Kenya, pitched Budysdilpoa, a super app for Kenya.

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Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now, let’s double click down on the concept of experiments. Once you were in these POC situations and started to gain some traction, what kinds of experiments are customers running?

Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So let’s double click down on a couple of things here. You mentioned a different dataset. So, what dataset is LiftLab using?

John Wallace: In our last company, we were essentially working with user level data, device level data, and log data. Now, we’re working with aggregated data. So we’re working with time series, and the methods are much more around econometrics. So it, it was a new data set and new algorithms.

Sramana Mitra: And what, what is the source of this data?

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