If you’re an early-stage founder, finding out what your customers *really* want so you can build the right product is critical. I’m excited to share some of First Round Capital's PMF Method program with Gagan Biyani on Friday! Gagan has founded 3 companies including Udemy, Sprig, and Maven. We’re hosting this live conversation for product leaders & founders on how to reach PMF. You’ll learn: - How to identify your customers' real problems - How to test demand by selling before building - When to write code vs. build a no-code MVP RSVP to join on June 14th (it’s free): https://bit.ly/3VBAK69
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Congrats to Itai Turbahn, Yoni Goldberg, and the whole Dynamic team on the partnership with Magic Eden! ME is the biggest multi-chain NFT marketplace, huge milestone and partnership for the company.
It’s a special day for Dynamic… In 2021, our team first began experimenting with digital collectibles and everything they have to offer. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we power the authentication and user management for Magic Eden, the largest multi-chain NFT marketplace! As a result, hundreds of thousands of monthly users are now utilizing Dynamic for authentication and wallet connection. By joining forces with Magic Eden, we’re enhancing the NFT experience for collectors and creators alike, empowering them to navigate the world of NFTs with ease. Scaling your web3 project or launching your own decentralized marketplace? Reach out to see how Dynamic can help!
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Sometimes getting the right positioning for your startup is more challenging than getting to the product itself. “Often it’s not that you don’t know who the customer is, it’s that you’re not picking — you haven’t committed to one hypothesis over the other. That’s what creates the confusion about what the product is, what the feature set looks like, and what the language that you use in the product even is.” Clay's Kareem Amin is one of the most thoughtful founders I know on this topic. Before Clay was the GTM power tool that it is today, it was struggling to choose between broadly building a horizontal product and narrowly focusing on outbound sales. “We had a bunch of initial customers, but they were all doing very wildly different things,” says Kareem. “One company actually sent me their code base because they wanted to send all of their data to NetSuite, but they didn’t have time to do it, so they asked us to reverse engineer it. It was in the same general sphere of doing some data transformation in a no-code way, but it had nothing to do with sales or recruiting. We just had this running in the background for a long time. They were paying us. But suddenly our servers would go down and we were like, ‘What's going on?’ And it was just this one company sending a bunch of data to us that needed to get transformed and sent to NetSuite. We had a customer, but it was the wrong customer.” In the latest installment of our Paths to PMF series on The Review, I got to sit down with Kareem to unpack the seven-year “overnight success” story of Clay, drilling deep into the debate between building a horizontal vs. vertical product, and how to find focus as a founder. Article in the comments.
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Loved hosting our "Know your buyer" panel as part of PMF Method. These panelists have purchased 💰 millions in SaaS and gave insights on what they look for in new SaaS products, when they say yes to design partnerships, how to navigate procurement, etc. Super useful for founders!
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"If the goal is to get Roman Empire facts exactly right, Lamini Memory Tuning would create experts on Caesar, aqueducts, legions, and any other facts you provide. Inspired by information retrieval, the model retrieves only the most relevant experts from an index at inference time — not all the model weights — so latency and cost are dramatically lower. High accuracy, high speed, low cost: with Lamini Memory Tuning, you don’t have to choose."
Building the future of LLMs. Cofounder & CEO, Lamini. CS Faculty at Stanford. MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35. (Speaker).
Excited to announce Lamini Memory Tuning, a new research breakthrough! 🎉 ◽ 95%+ accuracy, cutting hallucinations by 10x ◽ Turns any open LLM into a 1M-way adapter Mixture of Memory Experts (paper & Lamini-1 model weights on Hugging Face), e.g. one memory expert could recall facts on AMD's last earnings report, another on Nvidia's. ◽ Fortune 500 customer case study on how they memory-tuned their SQL agent to reach 95% accuracy, when they could only get to 50% with advanced RAG & instruction fine-tuning 👉 Drop us a note at info@lamini.ai to Memory Tune on your data. We read every message. 🧱 Come to my Databricks talk at 11am today for a deep dive on the technical paper & customer case study. All the resources! 📜📜📜 Blogpost: https://lnkd.in/gPTrKdBa Case study: https://lnkd.in/gNVgBRXc Paper: https://lnkd.in/grqTsaZE Weights ✨: https://lnkd.in/g2ibWUm6 Contact us to for a demo on your data: https://lnkd.in/gcBr9XnK
Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations | Lamini - Enterprise LLM Platform
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Excited to see Lamini's memory tuning announcement today! For many problems, prompt engineering and RAG (even when iterated on by expert teams for months) don’t perform well enough to use in production. These approaches break down when trying to deal with large, messy data when the use case requires reliably retrieving and combining specific facts. Lamini Memory Tuning is a new fine-tuning approach that turns any open source LLM into a Mixture of Memory Experts (MoME). Memory tuning allows your LLMs to keep their general reasoning capabilities, with 95%+ accuracy, cutting hallucinations by 10x. Read Sharon Zhou, PhD and Gregory Diamos's blog post: https://lnkd.in/gyVDygcr Check out the case study: https://lnkd.in/gdS9x7Ux
Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations | Lamini - Enterprise LLM Platform
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I've been consistently blown away by Ben Freeman and the Omnea team — their business is ripping. Some amazing opportunities to join the team below! 👇
📣 We are looking for our first ever VP Engineering and Head of Product! 🚀 Over the past few months we have grown into one of Europe’s fastest growing SaaS businesses, serving customers like Typeform, Onfido, and McAfee with our modern-day Procurement Automation platform. We are now looking for experienced leaders to help drive our growth across Product & Engineering on our journey from start-up to scale-up! ⭐ VP Engineering - Lead Engineering at Omnea (reporting to CEO), build out our engineering function, and grow our incredibly passionate, talented, and product-minded engineering team (inc. Brian Azizi, Gavin Williams, India Derrick, George Nishimura, and many more!) ⭐ Head of Product - Lead Product at Omnea (reporting to CEO) and own how we shape and ship our product, from scoping features all the way to crafting the longer term product strategy. 📈 Why now? We’ve built a single platform to help businesses manage their spend - think Spend Control 2.0 - and companies are demanding our product more than ever before. We’ve built an incredible & passionate team, raised money from the best investors out there (and have many years of runway), and shipped our platform to incredible customers. This year we are on track to >5x our revenue and >2x our headcount, all while remaining operationally efficient. 👉 We are also hiring across Sales, Customer, Marketing, Talent, and Engineering. You can see some of our open roles here: www.omnea.co/careers 💵 We are offering £10,000 for any successful referrals — pls refer to careers@omnea.co !
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Super excited to lead daydream's seed round! Thenuka Karunaratne, Shravan Rajinikanth and the team blew me away with their vision for the future of SEO and Search, how they're solving very real pain points for their early customers (like Clay, Tome, Notion and Product Hunt) and their fast growth out of the gate. I also loved that Thenuka experienced this problem firsthand at Flixed, and built the platform he wished he had. And as a side note, we heard some of the strongest personal references we've ever seen about the team ("Thenuka is one of the founders I’m constantly blown away by. I would bet on his life output very early on.") 🎉 Looking forward to partnering with the team on this next chapter!
I'm beyond excited to announce daydream's $3.8M Seed, led by First Round Capital's Todd Jackson.🎉 Since raising our pre-seed six months ago, we've been blown away by the interest in programmatic SEO from growth and marketing leaders. We'll use this capital to further invest in R&D, scale our team, and build a best-in-class product for this industry. If you're interested in building an SEO strategy that will thrive in the next generation of search, DM me! P.S -- We're also hiring for two roles (Marketing Lead and Full Stack Engineer), so if you're interested please visit our careers page or reach out to me directly.
Announcing our $3.8M seed – Notes by daydream
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Wrapping up the first weekend of PMF Method and feeling so excited for these founder journeys! In Session 2 we talked about “dollar-driven discovery” — how to validate that customers will truly need and pay for your product. This means before jumping on customer calls to validate your startup idea, you need a hypothesis. Who’s your buyer? What critical problem will it solve for them? Most founders stay at the surface level, using one liners like “we’re the first [X] to enable [Y]” during customer calls. At First Round Capital we developed a framework called the 4 P’s to help founders dig deeper: persona, problem, promise and product. Taking time to validate your 4 P’s with customers is how you’ll stress test whether you’re building something that customers truly need. In Session 3 we covered markets, which is a critical (but often underdeveloped) choice in company building. We don’t look at markets using high level TAM slides or McKinsey-ish top down numbers. Instead, we define a market as a collection of buyers who have a specific problem that your product solves, who buy software in a similar fashion, and who expect the product to provide value in a similar way. Given our definition, most generational businesses end up serving many adjacent markets over time. Some characteristics of a great market, starting with an initial white-hot center: • Enough buyers with an urgent problem to drive significant initial revenue, but ideally not enough that it’s saturated or obviously huge (and thus hyper-competitive) • Buyers are unhappy with the status quo…or the problem is very new • The category is entering a period of high velocity software adoption • Buyers have high (or at least medium) sensitivity to product quality • Budget already exists or will be easy to obtain • There’s willingness to pay a price point that can support the right GTM modality We loved digging into the first 6 months of company building with this group over the past few days, covering "How do I tell if this path is going to lead to PMF?" "How do I know if I'm targeting the right buyer?" and "Is this actually a good market to be building in?" Excited to continue the sessions with the founders over the summer! More to come on positioning, customer discovery feedback and founder-led sales.
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CEO and Co-Founder at Maven. Previously Co-Founder at Udemy.
4wLooking forward to this!