Roberge: AI founders should target startups first despite high churn
Mark Roberge · Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race? with Stage 2 Capital Co-founder Mark Roberge · Nov 17, 2023 · at 27:46
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Mark Roberge offers tactical go-to-market advice for early-stage AI founders looking for their initial beachhead customer segment.
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“If I'm gonna build my MVP, I'm gonna build it with the startup tech community. That's, like, scary for me to say, because the startup tech by itself, as an, that, that has a high failure rate, so you're gonna have a lot of churn, but it's just where you're gonna have the quickest bang for your buck to build the models, and then quickly move up to the S&B mid-market tech, which is a pretty common best practice.”
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