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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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Startups Want Chatbots but 80% Lack Knowledge About Conversational AI

ReadWriteStart

The Conversational AI market is growing dramatically, training new large generative models, expanding the technology stack, and bringing more advanced products to the market. The technologies behind conversational AI products are becoming more complex as well. . Unleashing the Advantages of Conversational AI to Startups.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

If all that wasn’t enough, you have the problem of model hallucinations, where the conversational UI offers an answer that is well articulated, but completely wrong. where rather than sift through noise to find an answer, users will generate a specific result to match their needs.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). Know Thy Audience – And look at creative funding sources.

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World with Bitcoin

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin was created by an anonymous person or group under the name Satoshi Nakamoto and released as open-source software in 2009. Bitcoin is changing how the world does business, with Bitcoin-based transactions happening all over the world. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital resource (like money). dollars, Euros, etc., Conclusion.