How to pitch your startup in 30 minutes (initial introductory meeting) in 8 steps
How to pitch your startup in 30 minutes (initial introductory meeting) in 8 steps
Joyce Shen
Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI , September 12, 2023
“TSMixer: An all-MLP architecture for time series forecasting” (Google)
“Attention Is All You Need” (a major classic!)
“Language to rewards for robotic skill synthesis” (Google)
“Consistent Collaborative Filtering via Tensor Decomposition
Authors” (Apple)
“Speeding Up Text-To-Speech Diffusion Models by Distillation” (Nvidia)
“To Copy Rather Than Memorize: A Vertical Learning Paradigm
How to pitch your startup under 10 minutes
The following startup pitch guide is focused on presentations that need to be done within 10 minutes (or less). It is very hard, and some entrepreneurs master this. But everyone can get better at this with practice.
Demystifying the Cap Table
One essential document in startup financing journey is the "Cap Table," short for Capitalization Table. While it may sound like a complex financial document, it is quite simple in its construction and provides the basis for various financial analyses related to a company's capital structure.
Understanding
What does it take to lead early-stage investments?
Venture investing in the early stage is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot of strategic and operational work to achieve key business and financial milestones which are prerequisite for growth equity. No one can do all the work alone. In fact, it requires the right type
Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI , August 18, 2023
Spotify launched Confidence — an experimentation platform: blog and sign up for private beta. (link)
“AI chatbot K Health picks up $59M in fresh funding, inks partnership with Cedars-Sinai” (link)
“A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks” (NYT)
“The case for and against open-source large language models for
Building a cyber defense fortress
Cyber attacks are getting out of hand, and every organization is vulnerable. Just looking at recent news:
Clorox had to take certain operations offline due to cyber attack (Reuters)
Discord went offline because over 700K user information were stolen (link)
Prince George's County public school system was hacked
The Discipline of Business Updates
Sharing regular business updates is an important discipline for startups and management teams. For me, these regular updates come each week and month in the forms of weekly CEO calls and email updates from CEOs. These regular updates focus on the state of the business - finance, sales, marketing, product,
Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI, July 28, 2023
“Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart” (NYTimes)
“AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics” (Nature)
“SK Hynix and Samsung’s early bet on AI memory chips pays off” (FT)
“KNN-Diffusion: Image Generation via Large-Scale Retrieval” (Link)
“Consistency Models” (Link)
“SelfCheckGPT: Zero-Resource Black-Box Hallucination
Generative AI x Knowledge Graphs
Data wrangling tasks include data acquisition, data ingestion, data extraction, data cleaning, data transformation, exploratory data analysis, and data pipelining for ML tasks. Data variety, dimensionality, complexity, duplication, provenance can further complicate this data wrangling process.