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@GetVettable @amarifields_ That would be theoretical. I bet you as a solo founder can’t even buy Datasets talk alone of training Models in a new category defined market.. I’ve met dumb VCs that asks how many paying customers do you have without understanding the Technical nuance of Deep tech.

@FrovaSwap @amarifields_ Deep tech has longer build cycles, agreed. But investors still look for proof the problem is real and the market exists.

currently raising a $500k pre seed round. some investors ask for financials, others say you do not need them at this stage. early stage fundraising feels like a different rulebook every conversation. founders who raised… what was the real deciding factor for your investors?

@GetVettable @amarifields_ Not for deep tech lol This works for AI wrapper Saas.. With Verticals you need huge funding

@amarifields_ Depends on the stage of your product. Right now there no excuse not to have something at minimal built out and tested in the market to show some type of need

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Pinterest has 480 million monthly users, the audience is 85% female with household income above $75k, and 87% of them have literally bought something from content they saw on the platform And every marketer has completely written it off because they think it's a mood board app. Which makes it possibly the most underpriced distribution channel on the internet right now… Most people have no idea what's happening on Pinterest right now. It's going through the exact same phase TikTok went through in 2020. Shopping features just went live. Shopify integration is active. AI is matching users to purchasable products automatically. But because every brand and agency is fighting over TikTok and Instagram, Pinterest has basically zero competition for organic eyeballs Organic CPM equivalent on Pinterest right now is roughly $0.12 For comparison. TikTok organic is running $2-4. Instagram organic $6-12. Facebook paid $40-60+ in most verticals You're getting 50-400x more reach per piece of content on Pinterest. With a higher income audience. And the content takes 15 minutes to make in Canva But the thing that makes Pinterest actually stupid compared to everything else is content lifespan Twitter content dies in 18 minutes. Instagram maybe 48 hours. TikTok 3-7 days on a good run Pinterest content drives traffic for 4-6 months. Some pins still pull clicks after 2 years Every piece you post is a compounding asset instead of disposable content. A slideshow you make today in Canva can drive traffic for the next year without you ever touching it again. I know someone running a home decor affiliate account making about $7k/month who hasn't posted new content in 4 months. Old pins just keep working. That's physically impossible on any other platform The demographics are ridiculous for selling stuff too. Pinterest users go there to DISCOVER and PLAN PURCHASES. Not scroll mindlessly. Not argue with strangers. Highest purchase-intent commercial audience on any social platform and nobody is competing for it Content that prints on Pinterest is dead simple. Aesthetic slideshows with 5-7 images and text overlay. "Best [product] for [specific use case]" roundup pins that get saved to boards by thousands of people planning purchases. Before/after transformations. The Pinterest audience is obsessed with transformation content. Home renovations, skincare results, closet organization, fitness progress Some mf I follow built 6 Pinterest accounts in the home decor niche and does $30k+/month in affiliate revenue. Total effort is maybe 10 hours a month of making slideshows (Works for men's niches too btw, just way less competition in women's verticals because all the "alpha male marketing bros" refuse to touch Pinterest. Their loss) The same playbook that works on TikTok Shop works even better here. Faceless accounts, high volume native content, affiliate structures. Competition is nonexistent and the content compounds forever instead of dying in a week. We're already testing this as a secondary channel for some of our TT Shop brands and the early numbers are kind of absurd for the effort involved The window is probably 12-18 months before everyone figures this out. Same window TikTok had in 2020-2021 before brands flooded in. Attention moves somewhere new, early movers build distribution cheap, masses arrive, costs go up, and the early movers have infrastructure everyone else is scrambling to build I'll probably regret pointing this out because the whole advantage is that nobody's paying attention yet Run the numbers

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@TheEthanDing People don't want a 'new LinkedIn' for more performative posting. They want a Safe Tribe. an anonymous, immersive 3D space where you can simulate high-stakes failures without it following your resume forever.

i'm not gonna lie linkedin i think is one of the most well executed and true to it's mission products on the planet i can conceive of almost no major strategic changes linkedin can make, that don't have major tradeoffs whoever's in charge there, i salute

@levie @betocmn @TheEthanDing LinkedIn is where you share your "highlight reel." Frova is where you share the "raw game tape." People are exhausted by the pressure to look perfect. An anonymous "tribe" which provides a safe haven to practice failures without risking professional reputation.

@betocmn @TheEthanDing basically the network effect is just insurmountable. 100x more potent than a consumer social network

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