1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Artificial Intelligence

At 1Mby1M, one of the most popular courses these days is the Artificial Intelligence segment. These courses include case studies that involve discussions on opportunities and challenges in Generative AI domain.

Bootstrap an AI Startup First, Raise Money Later: Sean Minter, Founder CEO of AmplifAI (Part 1)

Sean has bootstrapped AmplifAI to $1M, and then raised over $15M in two rounds of financing. Read on to learn the nuances of his strategy and execution.

The Startup Velocity Question: AI Blah Blah Blah

There’s an AI blah blah blah phenomenon right now all over the industry!

“Product growth is plateauing or declining but we have AI that will rejuvenate everything …”

Well, AI will do what?

What is the exact positioning of your AI offering?

Positioning a Generative AI Startup: Erik Severinghaus, Founder and CEO of Bloomfilter (Part 1)

Erik discusses his journey as a serial entrepreneur and we deep dive into the Positioning of Bloomfilter.

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

The Startup Velocity Question: Market Shifts Derail Companies

Let’s take a most obvious example: BPO companies offering large numbers of customer support agents to other businesses.

Enter AI.

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 this really unified, low-latency experience that sounds like a person.

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?

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. I think we decided we were going to do this in the fall of 2012. Nico had previously been at a video game streaming startup called OnLive in Palo Alto. Evan had sold his last company, which was called Zappedy.