VenturusAI's instant MBA & Samantha Wong on identifying soon-to-explode startup markets | E1777
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Today’s show:
VenturusAI founder Emanuel Ciciu joins Jason as he dives into the origin story of his new startup before talking about building vertical AI solutions (1:30). Then Blackbird VC's Samantha Wong gives a presentation at Angel Summit about identifying soon-to-explode startup markets (41:53).
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Emanuel joins Jason
(1:30) VenturusAI origin story
(5:20) The evolution of prompt engineering
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(10:23) The true cost of building on top of a LLM
(12:56) Building vertical AI solutions
(18:15) VenturusAI demo
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(24:42) VenturusAI path to 100 customers
(29:51) Next steps for VenturusAI
(35:40) Jason places a bet
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(41:53) Blackbird VC's Samantha Wong on identifying soon-to-explode startup markets at Angel Summit
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| 1:41.6 | any discussion about a business and analysis of a business while you're building it if you're |
| 1:46.0 | considering building it is great because it lets you build a mental model and so we did a demo |
| 1:54.2 | of this product and it got an incredible response from our audience so i told producer neck by the |
| 1:59.9 | way did a great job reading the news just yesterday on this podcast or this week on the podcast |
| 2:05.9 | depending on we publish a show he did a great job he'll be coming back to read more news |
| 2:10.7 | i said hey producer neck let's get this kid on the pod this kid is the manual |
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