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The (NOT SO) obvious signs of a successful AI startup

The (NOT SO) obvious signs of a successful AI startup

A graveyard of AI portfolio

Ashish Sinha
Sep 08, 2023
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A successful AI startup need not have:

  • a super strong defensible long-term tech moat (sorry VCs: most startups will not have a strong defensible tech moat..even OpenAI doesn’t have one)

  • branding, UX, tech, proprietary LLM as a moat

  • .AI-led branding strategy (no more shouting ‘We are an AI startup’ from the top of your lungs.

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