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Tell your next date that you're an early VC investor in OpenAI or Anthropic

So we missed the VC boat. Taking this line of thinking into its progressive next step: what are these skinnier women with sexy undies going to want next? Yoga pants? Beach vacations? Makeup? Hair products? How can i profit from this trend?

This. It's got uses, but they aren't reliable and the cost of is too much. We're shielded from that cost by VC funding, but the party won't last.

I am part of a team in an automation Startup that is in the final stages of getting funding from a VC fund and my role in the start up is CFO. I have been competently doing this so far (at least in my opinion) but now that there will be outside capital involved I will be honest I am a bit afraid that I am not skilled enough for this role. Do any of you have experience getting funded as a start up? If so, What are some of the changes/challenges you have experienced after getting funded in comparison to before (especially from the finance person perspective)? Will appreciate any feedback

Tell your next date that you're an early VC investor in OpenAI or Anthropic

So we missed the VC boat. Taking this line of thinking into its progressive next step: what are these skinnier women with sexy undies going to want next? Yoga pants? Beach vacations? Makeup? Hair products? How can i profit from this trend?

This. It's got uses, but they aren't reliable and the cost of is too much. We're shielded from that cost by VC funding, but the party won't last.

I am part of a team in an automation Startup that is in the final stages of getting funding from a VC fund and my role in the start up is CFO. I have been competently doing this so far (at least in my opinion) but now that there will be outside capital involved I will be honest I am a bit afraid that I am not skilled enough for this role. Do any of you have experience getting funded as a start up? If so, What are some of the changes/challenges you have experienced after getting funded in comparison to before (especially from the finance person perspective)? Will appreciate any feedback

Angel networks and accredited investor groups are your best bet, though honestly the VC route exists because traditional investors want someone else doing the vetting. If you're bootstrapping instead, that's a different game entirely.

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As long as there is no premine and no VC allocations, what makes the zKAS distribution different from KAS distribution?
Not disputing that zKAS might be a shitcoin (I don't know anything about it). But criticizing it for having the same kind of launch as KAS is kind of whack... How else could they do it better?

I am currently building a health benefit administration platform for SMBs and Brokers. We launched 5 months ago and things are well so far.
Our thesis is that AI decreased the cost of product development and process automation heavily, thus decreased the bar of launching new product or productized services, so the most important thing is now customer acquisition and stickiness of products/services and be having to have a human in the loop for legal liabilities. Because of this, we are launching series of products with regulatory arms which could be upselled and crossselled. This pipeline of products include payroll, retirement benefits, treasury management, banking, compliance, bookkeeping, managed IT services etc. Very like Ripplings compound product concept. And nearly all of them are AI automation based productized services.
I have raised funds from VCs couple of times before and went through a well known incubator(Y Combinator) for my first startup. This could be framed as a VC material and backed by VCs. There are some companies that moves that direction with same/similar value proposition like us like Every, Warp etc. Even in Y Combinator, there are tons of similar products right now and I believe currently winning one is Rippling and will be Mercury after Central acquisition.
For a company in this segment, after VC route, best outcome is acquisition, I don’t think any of these companies will end up in IPO scale other than Rippling because this is not winner takes all market and barrier of entry is currently being product and sales savvy and having access to financial infrastructure since the product development does not need too much capital or scale as it used be before the AI. VC route is not something we desire, we want this to be always sustainably growing asset in evergreen industry.
So I started to explore other venues but couldn’t find a segment of companies or experts that is publicly looking for deals like VCs does. VCs job is to deploy capital, thus they are very reachable and process is very well structured making it very convenient to communicate with them.
I did 3 things so far:
1- set up an email campaign for capital allocators and family offices with data sourced by lead databases like Apollo. I had some responses but far lower than I expected.
2- got a proposal from financial advisory firm called Post Oak group which looked very fishy and requested upfront retainer investment from us without establishing any trust with additional ridiculous commissions on funds raised.
3- Ask people in my network about suggestions which generally ended up offers of small checks from friends as an investor which was nice to have.
I am looking for advice on who to approach and how?
Is it family offices or wealth advisors or asset managers?
If so what scale is desirable for this segment?
Is there a way to identify family offices that could also be a strategic partner: family offices from HR or insurance brokerage background.

Agreed, I remember when ET money was used to be pretty good in there assesment. However once ET sold it to some rando company backed by VC funding with enough cash to burn for marketing there app became more of an adware, with fund houses paying to be on there ranking lists. There algorithm became shit, I made money I won't say I didnt but buy then I pretty much figured out how the framework of picking right MFs.

This is what needs to brought to lawmakers attention. Not Perosi husband Paul's VC account.

Need to go after bigger fish like Trump. His business filed bankruptcy 9 times before. But he is in the office.
It is not Nancy is trading. Her husband Paul is a VC investor. He is doing his job with wealth shared. In fact Paul has his CFP not doing any of the work himself.

Have you seen the GPU backed securities that are set to launch? Seems similar to a mortgage backed security except the underlying asset depreciates.
Also most of AI funds seems locked in the private sector like VC funds and other private investors. The public AI companies like NVIDIA have businesses that is necessary for AI no matter which frontier model or other AI overlays survive. So I don’t think the bubble really exists in the retail sense like dotcom.

Bulk deals coming up for 5 star. I heard VC are looking to offload their shares