Operating a SaaS app is like running a one-room hotel that has unlimited occupancy. It’s as if you’ve figured out how to rent the same hotel room to many guests at a time through some weird tricks of quantum superposition. It is the greatest business in the world.
Customers pay for your hotel room by the month. Each one gets the same basic setup: bed, desk, and Wi-Fi that never works when you need it. When you make changes to the core room, all guests get the new version. But they can also request customizations personal to them, like a wake-up call—5 am for the gym rats, 1 pm for the barflies. Guests tend to stay for months or years at a time, paying for the same room as everyone else.
It is an absolute license to print money. — Read More
Daily Archives: July 24, 2023
Ai + writers/illustrators = $tartup $tudio.
In addition to building startups, I’m a writer and video-maker. This puts me in possession of a secret that I will share here: there’s not much difference between building a startup that generates cashflow and movie or book that makes money, they both require immense Founder Energy– the Ambition, Determination, Creativity, and Charisma to build something people want and inspire folks along the way to help you make it happen.
Seems to me there’s a huge opportunity for writers and illustrators, maybe even actors, to build startup studios using AI. What’s missing is a YC/FounderU-type community/acclerator/cohort learning system to attract creative founders, pair them with the latest AI tools, and help them launch, grow, and raise money to produce the content. — Read More
India’s AI newsreaders are multilingual, cost-saving and ‘never tired’. Can they replace humans?
In April, an artificial intelligence chatbot presented the news on television for the first time in India. The chatbot named Sana had fair skin and long black hair and read the highlights on the Hindi-language news channel Aaj Tak that is owned by the India Today group, one of the biggest media houses in the country.
Following Sana, Odisha TV in eastern India revealed its chatbot named Lisa that wears a sari, has dark-rimmed eyes and reads the headlines in Odia, the local language. — Read More
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