Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The spend is way off whack, and businesses are spending less and less of marketing because even with generative ai, what you're seeing is you're seeing sameness in content people now people are generating content through generative ai. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

And new technologies, like generative AI, are creating new opportunities for founders to stand out in the consumer space. Lighttricks – the suite of mobile apps for photo and video editing, and most recently generative AI photo and video generation. Much has changed since then. founded in 2019, raised $13.5M

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I don't want to make this full of acronyms and buzzwords and so forth, but there's a lot of technical stuff that you can do the heavy lifting using AI now and not have to do it the old fashioned way. There's material on things like page speed and core web vitals or three different metrics and core web vitals. So there's a lot on that.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise, given that entrepreneurs are obsessed with data and metrics, but in the conservative VC market of 2024, it feels even more important for founders to know what ‘good’ looks like and what investors expect. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

I searched for internships that would allow me to explore generative AI. Israel’s track record of producing innovative tech startups like Waze, Fiverr, Lightricks, and more, made Israel a natural choice for emerging generative AI startups. Moreover, I was able to contribute to the Israeli generative AI landscape.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Build a strong team – this sounds obvious, but is especially important at the early stage, where there are less metrics or revenue to assess the attractiveness of your company to investors. Generative AI poses a lot of interesting new opportunities in this space and you’ll be smart to be ahead of the curve.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

You identify a strategically wise problem to solve, build a solution, and conduct market research—then you align on your pricing metric, segmentation, and willingness to pay. The metric you use to price your first product isn’t necessarily the one you use to price your next. Let’s make this more concrete.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It’s so much easier to create content these days with generative AI. Superhuman’s famous waitlist strategy, for instance, grew entirely through word of mouth by optimizing for their “very disappointed” metric. Make sure you’re planning ahead. Rinse and repeat.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!) make a product sticky.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

Automated Root Cause Analysis: Conviction believes that AI can significantly improve incident resolution times and the on-call experience for engineers. Startups can develop AI agents that analyse logs and metrics to identify root causes, suggest fixes, and generate post-mortems.

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