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Roundtable Recap: February 16 – Two-Sided Marketplaces Don’t Work if You Boil the Ocean

During this week’s roundtable, we had one pitch and another five conversations with entrepreneurs.

Invest4energy

We first had Phuong Skovgaard from London, UK, pitch Invest4energy, a 2-sided marketplace for funding solar panels. We discussed the need for focus and restraint.

Two-sided marketplaces in all kinds of verticals and niche markets have become a key trend in the e-commerce startup space. We explore the various nuances and case studies of how entrepreneurs are building two-sided marketplaces in the Udemy course, How to Build 2-Sided E-commerce Marketplaces | Sramana Mitra.  

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Colors: Tulip Fields, Aerial I

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 – Tulip Fields, Aerial I

Tulip Fields, Aerial I | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

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Cloud Stocks: Twilio Focusing on Health Vertical

Communications PaaS player, Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) recently announced its fourth quarter results that continued to surpass market expectations. The impressive performance sent the stock soaring 15% in the after hours trading session.

Building a PropTech Venture with a Virtual Team: Discount Lots President Paul Hersko (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is your primary use case? City dwellers wanting to buy property outside the city?

Paul Hersko: Yes, I would say so.

Sramana Mitra: Were you self-financing still at this point?

Generative AI: A Strategy Blueprint for Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship

Ever since ChatGPT was made available to the general public, everybody is talking about how it will impact the world as we know it. 

ChatGPT is a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models (LLMs). Generative AI is trained on vast amounts of data that enable it to understand and respond like a human. It helps create new content from previously created content. It can write and debug computer programs, compose music, plays, and student essays, and answer test questions. 

OpenAI’s Journey and Financials

OpenAI was originally founded in 2015 with a stated goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, AWS, Infosys, and YC Research pledged over $1 billion to the venture. 

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599th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 599th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 16, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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Today’s 599th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 16, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!