u/cryptofays

Hello,

My recommendation is to launch your product and scale it fast. Start having your new customers, engage them and show signs of growth.

But keep in mind that angel investors and VCs invest in companies that build products that can scale, with an exit at the end of the tunnel.

You need to ensure that whatever you are building is having a unique proposal through its positioning in a way to generate value for customers at large.

As investors, we receive 20+ investment requests per day, thus you will need to build a much better narrative if you want to catch the attention of anyone there.

The next steps cannot be aligned with capital raised:
- you need to have a vision
- you need to have a roadmap with intermediate milestones to achieve your target goal
- you need to start fast and show traction

We are past the era where investors fund ideas. Investors fund projects to scale an existing traction.

That’s just jealousy. He fears that you’d be talking to other guys.

Creepy as you say. Probably the best way to know is to ask him why he wants to know, but either way, this is a red flag of obsessive behavior.

Génial. Je recherchais ce type de programmations. Merci!

That’s definitely an clear advantage, and the right way to see it. There is an active movement to turn researchers (as in labs) into founders, leveraging their expertise, combining it into deep tech, to create high impact startups, in particular around biotech, bluetech (water), nanotechnology, healthcare etc…

Hand it over to Claude/Codex, provide the errors, ask it to analyse the code, give him your code documentation, explain your project, explain the architecture, then ask it to help fix problem by problem (guiding them).

I built 6 ventures, sold 1 to a multinational, built the African subsidiary of a large multinational, and I am a VC investor, investing in startups since 9 years. I think I have some background to support what I’m saying.

And let her work to pay college.

DramaWave short drama.

The main reason you went to college was not to get the degree for a respectable 9-5, but it was to learn some fundamentals and perspectives that you could leverage for whatever you want to do.

You are doing this on a part time basis, you have customers, a positive feedback. You have all the ingredients to go all in. And if it does not work, you can always go back to a finance job in a year.

You have to see yourself as building a business, structuring it, with different revenue streams (services, maintenance and potentially others in the future).

There is nothing to be ashamed about. You have the grounds for entrepreneurship, if what you highlight is solid and reflects reality, I would put more time on what the side hustle and less on the 9-5.

No as long as the vehicle is not selling in Spain they cannot tax it there. There are strict rules for what we call a Permanent Establishment (PE). The conditions will need to be met before the company is locally subject to taxes.

But they can tax any revenue the founder is generating for themselves (salary, royalties, equity).

Super, merci beaucoup! Je regarde tout ça, ça a l’air intéressant.. Surtout le Human Talk.

Merci! 🙏🏻

Merci Ciwol! Je surveille les dates 2027!

Merci!

J’ai été sur le site d’Agile, ils ne semblent pas avoir de nouvelles dates pour 2026. J’ai marqué les dates du Snowcamp 2027, ça a l’air pas mal.

Try Bloom bookstore. They have a very large selection, and if they do not have it, they can order it for you.

Il y a différentes manières de trouver et lever du capital, en particulier si le projet a une bonne base et est solide. Évidemment dans le périmètre du raisonnable.

Quand on se lance dans l’entrepreneuriat, on le fait avant tout pour quelque chose qui nous passionne, autrement aux premières difficultés, on perd l’énergie, la capacité à avancer (et il y aura de nombreuses difficultés, en permanence tout au long du chemin).

Une fois que l’on a défini ce que l’on peut faire, on établit des étapes de développement (et c’est à ce moment qu’on définit de premiers objectifs en adéquation avec les ressources dont on dispose), mais cela ne veut pas dire qu’il faut être restrictif et qu’il faut cantonner la taille du projet au budget seul.

Probably the best answer. Start small. Gig by gig, leverage AI to deliver, grow along. Choose your focal point:
- Software development
- Websites and landing pages
- Copywriting
- Whatever is your thing

The most important part is to start, to start quick, and learn along. If you feel it ain’t your thing, pivot to something else. No sunken cost.

Worst thing: not doing anything because you don’t know what to do.

Wrong answer. On démarre par le projet, le capital suit.

u/WalidB03

Sure! So basically I run two agent crews (for two different businesses). One for product dev, one for consulting, they both share the same infra and Gbrain.

Conductor orchestrates everything, Hermes handles the heavy tool, and Claude + Kimi do the actual reasoning and generation (Claude for deep analysis and writing, Kimi for code at scale). I am thinking about using openrouter for right model selection. Gbrain keeps persistent memory across sessions so agents aren’t starting blind, ZeroEntropy handles semantic search over all my docs and codebases, and Arize watches everything in production and handles observabilith (quality, latency, hallucinations…).

Conductor → Hermes (tool execution) → Claude/Kimi (code gen + review/ consulting) → ZeroEntropy (codebase context) → Arize (QA + monitoring).

I hope that helps.

The logistics would be costly if they are not in the same neighborhood, on top of this you’d probably increase the wait time for receiving the order. On top of this, providing you negotiate thr 20% discount, you would still need to have your own margin, which would be at least 6-7%. So you’d secure effectively a 14% discount there.

Here are a few helicopter view points to address in your product design (from a business perspective):

Now if you only manage to negotiate a 10%, the effective discount is around 4%. You cannot renegotiate your bottom line based on negotiated rates otherwise your growth is unsustainable, unless you aim at lower margins but plan on making high volumes (risky assumption). For info, some of the food delivery businesses can go up to 20+% margin on some orders.

Now if we assume the contract states that discount kicks off at 5 grouped orders:
- How long does the person wait before knowing that their order is confirmed, at what price?
- To cover for the logistics cost discounting, you’d probably have to group the delivery: how do you ensure food freshness for all?
- Why would they use your platform if they go normal price ? In this case, would you have 0% margin?

You might have something there, but there is probably a deeper flow design require to ensure you are able to execute it in a sustainable, profitable way that brings value to the customers.

I hope this helps. Those are just my two cents as an investor.

Hello,

There are two aspects:
- Current search of an opportunity: any startup has design issues and priorities, or company building products, systems (including IT departments). You should aim at reviewing opportunities either as a full-time employee or as a freelancer (depending on your skill leve) where you can bring value. Build your portfolio, make it public, generate content to drive engagement and pipeline around your capabilities. If you demonstrate the proper skillset, people will come to you and you will be a in better position to negociate your terms. This is not difficult to do, but it requires diligence, commitment, perseverance and consistency.

- AI is disrupting every field, not just design. Apps development is one of them, copywriting is another. But it is neither replacing the first nor the seconds. AI is just another tool that you need to leverage as a designer to produce great outputs. You can use Claude with Blender or Figma, and many other tools to address specific requirements depending on your field of application. You have to evolve your skillset with the AI development.

It is not because AI is able to produce designs that anyone can prompt it for a good design. If the people do not know what they need to ask, they are not getting it. There is where you, as an educated designer make a difference. You can create a design that respects the right flow for customer experience, that is accessible, that emphasizes the call to action, that helps with the navigation, the modularity while adapting with the current design trends.

So make these two focuses:
- Evolve your way to working to leverage AI as an integrated part of your job. You can deliver in 2 days what used to take a full week.
- Build your portfolio and create content to attract potential employers or customers

Hope that helps.

Hello and welcome!

My own stack:
- Hermes
- Conductor
- Gbrain
- ZeroEntropy
- Kimi and Claude
- Arize AI

As said, it finds it roots in the PayPal Mafia but this is a term largely used everywhere. You have the French tech Mafia, the Lithuanian Mafia, as well as all large tech Mafias: https://www.goingvc.com/post/these-10-tech-mafia-groups-are-dominating-the-startup-investing-game.

The Morocco Tech Mafia has now 10k members including most startup founders, all the local VCs and many foreign investing, government representatives, corporates…

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