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This is brilliant! Every VC back in 2020/2021 market hype 👇😂 "If you show revenue, people will ask how much and it will never be enough. But if you have no revenue, you can say you're pre-revenue. You're a potential pure play". Unfortunately, we're seeing the exact same thing with AI startups right now. Investors are pumping billions into anything that has AI in it. Even if it's just a domain name 😉 Market cycles is an unbeatable force. P.S. for more great stuff, check out 🔔linas.substack.com🔔, it's the only newsletter you need for all things when Finance meets Technology. For founders, builders, and leaders.

VC in 2024 as well. Hahahaha so relevant

does your start up show or not show revenue

Educating and training today on GROWTH. Expanding services, the team, sales and revenue growth are the foundational blocks. Like if you have a revenue growth plan in your business.

What is the value of a company? Most economists would agree that it is the present value of the discounted future cash flows of the company. Accordingly, revenue and profits ought to be key to this determination. Curiously, “actual” revenue, in this day and age, does not seem to matter as much as “potential” revenue as far as startups are concerned. In other words, if a pre-revenue start-up can offer a “dream” (if believable enough), no revenue could be a lot more attractive than a “non-dreamlike” start-up that can actually eke out some revenue (as this video shows). Isn’t this familiar in a corporate setting? Have you seen in your organization employees who are good at selling “dreams” to their bosses without actually delivering much would often receive higher raises and bonuses than employees who quietly and consistently produce results for the company that help pay for the cost of the dream-sellers? At the end of the day, each organization should have dreams, otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to innovate and grow. However, how to actually deliver the dreams is the more important question and oftentimes, it would depend on the non-dreamlike people in your organization, so do take good care of them!😊😊

GUILD4AI AI ecosystem sharing news, usages, bringing together speakers, experts, market players. #guild4ai The resources are in you! your story is your strategy! Christian Jumelet “Storytelling is the most underrated skill,” says Ben Horowitz who, along with business partner Marc Andreessen, has built one of the most influential venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Andreessen-Horowitz has invested in the next generation of leading technology companies including Airbnb, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. I recently spoke to Horowitz, the bestselling author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things about the ‘most underrated skill’ and how entrepreneurs and leaders can improve their ability to tell an inspiring story in business. “Companies that don’t have a clearly articulated story don’t have a clear and well thought-out strategy,” says Horowitz. “ The company story is the company strategy .” Horowitz says that business books are full of advice on how to achieve objectives and goals, but they’re light on explaining the “why” questions that matter the most: Why are we doing this? Why does the problem need to be solved? Why should you join this company? Why should you invest in this company? Why should you buy a product from this company? The answer to “why” is the company’s story. Horowitz told me that he believes a leader’s ability to articulate a clear and compelling vision –and to tell a story around the ‘why’—is fundamental to the task of leadership. https://lnkd.in/d3n5GzqC Enabler4you provides global premium services for fundraising, brand development, business growth #enabler4you

Should you raise venture capital for your AI startup?   Maybe, maybe not. Here’s why:   Venture capital can speed up execution.   But it’s not a strategy itself.   VC is for businesses chasing massive markets.   Think billion-dollar opportunities.   Investors expect big returns - 20 to 40 times their investment.   But a lot of successful companies don’t raise VC.   They’re focused on steady, sustainable growth.   Not high-risk, high-reward markets.   VC is suitable for a small subset of businesses.   If you’re not targeting rapid scale in large markets, it might not be the right fit.   In short, weigh the pros and cons carefully.   VC can accelerate growth, but it’s not for everyone. Do you agree?👇   —   Want real, no-hype AI insights? I post daily, offering quick AI lessons for business leaders in under 2 minutes.   If you like what you see, follow me and tap the 🔔 on my profile to never miss a post.   #AI #ArtificialIntellegence #MachineLearning

As an early stage investor, I’m able to get a ‘snapshot’ of the venture economy at the earliest stage through monthly investor updates. I find most of the top performing companies (although not all, there are always exceptions!), send detailed monthly reports - often on the first of each month. Overall, compared to last year, it appears that SaaS sales are picking up. Startups are having more luck meeting, and even exceeding, their revenue targets. AI is unlocking new exploratory & innovation budgets within companies. Once startups are embedded, they have been able to quickly add new features and expand internally. It’s a very exciting time to be in tech, especially within vertical AI.

Ever wondered what makes angel investors tick? 🤔 Imagine you're at a poker table, but instead of cards, it's AI startups. What's your next move? Here's the insider scoop: 1. **Team Dynamics**: Are they the Avengers of tech? 2. **Tech Marvels**: Is their AI as groundbreaking as they claim? 3. **Market Magic**: Will their solution vanish into the crowd or stand out? 4. **Financial Fortitude**: Can they manage cash like Scrooge McDuck? 5. **Customer Chemistry**: Do users love their product like chocolate? 6. **Scalability Sorcery**: Is their growth spell powerful? 7. **Competitive Cauldron**: What's brewing to keep rivals at bay? 8. **Business Blueprint**: Is their plan a treasure map to success? 9. **Legal Labyrinth**: Any minotaurs hiding in their legal matters? 10. **Exit Enigma**: What's their grand finale? Now, let's talk MarketOwl.ai - your personal AI marketing wizard. 🧙♂️ Ready to invest in magic that turns Brand Awareness to Leadgen without lifting a wand? Snap up this chance to diversify your portfolio with innovation that sparks. 🚀 #Innovation #Investment #AIStartups Be part of the next big success story. Because investing in AI shouldn't feel like rocket science, it should feel like magic. 🌟

Things are operating as they should. smart people are identifying value. smart bankers are making bets in early Investments to build infrastructure and products for the marketplace. and this is going fast. https://lnkd.in/gDHgHhfx As always, even though these companies have raised a lot of money some of them will fail. The failures will make this skeptical people that are screaming "ai bubble" very happy because they'll be right about something, even though anyone could predict it and it's obvious that technology companies fail, when they miss the market. They will still claim broad market failure based on anecdotes. This is basically ignorant pseudo analysis. It's very likely, that this scale that some of these companies will proceed and become unicorns and have product Market fit that's useful to their customers. Other analysts, like myself, we'll dig into these early leaders and make assessments whether or not these are early signals of a new market shape, new infrastructure and new products that will disrupt and change the way that their Enterprise companies go to market. Markets aren't crazy... but it takes a large number of inputs from widely desperate resources for markets to move in certain directions, up or down. what is distracting is is that there's negative and positive oversteering that happens in the volatility of early markets. Have you spotted any AI driven Market leaders that are actually generating Revenue at scale? These are companies like Canva, V7, CrewAI and Hebbia. Please add them to the comments if you know them. Happy hunting for the 5-baggers. 🦕🦖🦈💰💰💰💰💰