why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Disclosure
Niv combined pre-seed and seed to announce $6.5M round for TechCrunch
“And with that proof of concept I raised a seed round of a 5.2 million dollars. I announced it as a 6.5 because I wanted to get into TechCrunch. I combined the pre-seed and the seed together. But eventually TechCrunch did not cover us.”
Opinion
Niv: 10M titles go unpublished yearly due to cost and inefficiency
“So I believe there are about ten million titles that are not being published every year because of the process being so expensive, so inefficient”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Niv says an AI publishing rival raised $4M but never launched
“There is another AI-based publishing platform that had a seed round of four million dollars a year and a half ago, and they didn't launch a product yet. Not even the first version, because it's very complicated to take a publishing process, ok, and turn that i…”
Disclosure
Niv: Spines has 20 top-tier VCs interested in Series B
“Now in the pipeline, I have about 20 top tier VCs that are very interested in leading our series B. Ok, and eventually I will have to choose one of them.”
Disclosure
Niv: Oren Zeev tracked Spines for two years before leading round
“One of the things Oren Zeb told me because I've been communicating with him for over two years before he decided to invest in me. And he told me, like, two years ago, you kind of told me what you are planning on doing. Two years after, it actually works, you k…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Niv: Spines has published 3,700 authors with 10x YoY growth
“And we've been able to already, when it's recorded, to publish 3700 American authors. And we are growing very, very fast for the past two years, more than 10 X year over year growth.”