How much money do we need to grow?
Raised €1M pre-seed, launched Placy Pro tests; now considering a €2M–€10M seed round, dilution trade-offs, Carta guidance on keeping ~55–60% founders' shares.
Raised €1M pre-seed, launched Placy Pro tests; now considering a €2M–€10M seed round, dilution trade-offs, Carta guidance on keeping ~55–60% founders' shares.
Placy announces Meta Tech Provider status to simplify WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook integration for realtors, with APIs, onboarding and Meta's support.
Self-teaching LLMs: AlphaZero precedent; self-generated reward models tested on Llama 2 70B outperforming Claude 2, Gemini Pro, GPT-4 (report).
Quick take on how Perplexity and SearchGPT change search economics: data owners get paid, marketplaces add AI, and paid search models emerge.
Reflection on why property portals are stuck in a 2010s mindset and how AI (Simon Baker, Cian.ru reference) could trigger a seismic change.
Founder note on choosing primary B2C platform — LinkedIn is fixed for B2B; user counts for Cyprus+Greece and 2023 growth rates for major networks.
Future Unicorns Party at Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov 11, 7pm — speakers Oleg Khusaenov, Michael Bychenok, Eugene Zhiharev; registration: fienta.com/futureunicorns (code UNICORN)
Notes on Y Combinator's 'Most promising areas for tech startups in 2024' — Placy/Placy Pro focus on Explainable AI and LLMs for legacy back-office automation.
Gartner predicts 25% drop in search volume by 2026 as users move to ChatGPT/Claude — marketplaces face bot-first traffic, pushing SEO/AEO over TV ads.
Examples of growth experiments by Airbnb, PayPal, Canva and Facebook/LinkedIn; a quote on learning how to grow a business and a FirstRound link.
Brief note on Diella, Albania’s AI 'minister' for public procurement — a PR-forward GovTech experiment that raises transparency questions and GPT limits.
Announcement: R-Founders Day Dubai on Feb 6 — 50 attendees, AI in operations, 2026 fundraising rules, XPANCEO lab visit and networking with founders.
Argues AI-to-AI language is high-dimensional vectors (4,096+), faster and less ambiguous than words; references Villeneuve's Arrival and heptapod ink circles.
Interview with Uri Levine — 2x unicorn founder; discusses PMF, AI‑maps (Waze), VC shifts and a Cyprus drought drone metaphor.
Sergey Osipov summarises PropTech 2026 in a 5-minute Doers Summit Dubai talk: why startups must learn to compete with bots; video link included.
AI widened the attack surface: Mozilla fixed 423 Firefox vulnerabilities in April; defenders use Claude Mythos but it's not a moat.
Interviews with marketing, creative and music agencies on layoffs, AI and where the gaming industry is headed; quotes and podcast links from Manarino, Brodsky, Lyman.
Краткий разбор закона Конвея и ещё 9 управленческих законов — Брукс, Паркинсон, Гудхарт и др., с практическими следствиями.
Кратко о Gartner Hype Cycle: показывает стадии развития технологий, помогает в оценке перспектив, планировании внедрения и анализе рисков.
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