Starting a Startup, Reloaded | Ben Bolte
My "Starting a Startup" post from a few months ago needed a refresh. This is a new version with my updated thoughts about what a successful startup looks like.
While I'm sitting on the Caltrain from San Francisco back to the guesthouse I'm renting in Palo Alto, I was looking at some of my former blog posts and realized that my post about starting a startup should now be considered deprecated. The full story of what happened is somewhat long and embarrassing (as failed startups tend to be), but suffice to say that I've had the opportunity to update several of my priors about what a successful startup looks like. What does a successful AI startup look like? To answer this question, it's important to say that one of the top highlights of working on…
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