VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2024

It’s also worth mentioning that for many creators, generative AI can also be perceived as a threat – not only it enables more creators to compete on user attention, but also risks their own content or style being stoles or commoditised.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Non-consensus investments , on the other hand, are those that defy popular opinion or seem risky due to unconventional business models, unproven markets, or early market entry. That led us to start investing in generative AI in 2019 (consider that ChatGPT only came out in November 2022, that’s pretty early).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and GTP-3, Sequoia.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2023

“The unanticipated demand to create AI software has outstripped the cloud service capacities of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle” The Information The big challenge in generative AI is GPU shortage and costs. This affects both big players like OpenAI / Stability AI as well as small startups.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

Benchmark: Serena Capital advises B2B SaaS startups to target a gross margin of 80% or higher to demonstrate the scalability and profitability of their business model. Burn Rate Definition: Burn rate is the rate at which a startup is spending its capital to finance operations before generating positive cash flow.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Companies need to have a clear understanding of their business model and how they will achieve profitability in order to attract investors. In general, raising seed capital in a down market requires creative thinking and perseverance. Quite astonishing how easy content creation can become using Creative generative AI.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Generative AI now has the potential to exponentially grow the quantity of content created. Articles, ads, images, videos, voice, graphs, 3D objects, music, scientific papers… all can be created today with AI. Base10 includes 300 startups in their generative AI landscape (source).

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. The AI Girl on Call The business model is just as you’d expect it to be: a classic freemium model. Things are now much more real than that.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The next 18-24 months will be critical as early adopters prove out use cases and business models. For founders and investors willing to bet big on this shift, the opportunity is unprecedented. But remember: with great power comes great responsibility.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

New Business Models : AI enables innovative business models, such as offering AI-driven services or selling the “work” performed by AI agents rather than traditional products or services, where the user still needs to operate some kind of dashboard/product.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2024

Among these are the Lean Startup Method, Business Model Canvas, and Design Thinking*. Of the respondents, 70% acknowledged employing generative AI tools at some stage of their entrepreneurial journey, with chatbot assistants being the most popular tool mentioned (including ChatGPT and Claude). LinkedIn, 20 June 2023.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2025

Looking Back: A Year Defined by Generative AI 2024 will go down in history as the year generative AI truly went mainstream. It wasnt just startups leveraging generative AIcorporates like Adobe, Salesforce, and Google integrated AI-powered features into their core products, making it ubiquitous.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They also discuss how Abrams approaches every new project like a startup in and of itself, and what tech entrepreneurs can learn from his business model at Bad Robot Productions. (To Generating stories, generating conversation. Whether it’s music or visual art or story.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

10 VC investment themes in 2025 according to Stripe Stripe highlighted the biggest global trends impacting startups in 2025 , focusing on evolving customer needs and the power of AI. Stripe anticipates these trends to create significant business opportunities for new and existing companies.

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