AI Researcher, CS Teacher

Entrepreneurship is a vast pursuit that requires much more than ten artificial intelligence prompts for success. With its complexity and multifaceted nature, starting a company requires hard work, dedication, and perseverance for success.

Nevertheless, throughout the history of humanity, we as a species have been particularly adept at inventing tools that assist us to tackle challenges far greater than we could tackle on our own. Fast forward to 2023, humans have developed the newest tool in our arsenal: generative AI.

Matthew Collins

These are the best 10 prompts you need to help you create a startup

Top 10 Prompts for Startup Founders

So far in 2023, 44 startups have recently joined the illustrious “unicorn” club - a noble award reserved only for those skilled, savvy, and fortunate enough to navigate their way to a $1bn valuation or higher. Cumulatively, these 44 unicorns have a total valuation of $86.6 billion (1). Not bad.

The startups all came from the same humble beginnings of finding a problem, forming a hypothesis, discovering product-market fit, and iterating (I’ve written on how AI can be used for each of these steps 

One additional thing is true: these startups reached such great heights through investment.

Injecting capital into your company is an important piece in the puzzle for achieving startup success. Executing ambitious growth plans, researching and developing a product, and acquiring new customers requires fuel. However, in the early days of a startup, having the resources to make these plans happen is rare.

Looking to raise some capital for your startup? Check out this article to see how you can easily create an impactful pitch deck using AI

Create an Investor Pitch Deck With AI

Think about how many people you interact with as a startup founder.

First and foremost, there are your customers - you communicate your product and idea to entice them to purchase and use your product / service.

Next up is your team. You likely have a mentor as you begin your startup journey, along with a co-founder and your teammates. The communication with these individuals helps you to effectively deliver your startup offering.

Then you have your investors. These could be parents, friends, venture capitalists, angel investors, you name it. You are fortunate to have received funding from these groups because they believe in you, your team, and your idea. Their capital is the fuel that helps you bring your startup into the world. Communications with this group are essential for seeking future funding and sharing startup progress.

How do you effectively communicate a strategic narrative to customers, and appropriately give criticism to your teammates? This article dives into communication challenges faced by startup founders

How to Start a Company With AI: Communication

How do we take the thought of an opportunity into the actions to create a startup? What are the stages of research that we should go through in order to test and refine our ideas?

How do we go from having questions about a specific market to actually start building and testing an idea?

10 Ways to Start A Company Using AI: Research (Part 2)

The sum of all human knowledge exists on the internet. The search engine gave us the power to browse through it. The Large Language Model (LLM) gave us the power to converse with it.

This week, we’re exploring how we can ‘converse’ with AI to research before starting our company. There are so many things to research when creating a startup, so we’ll divide this topic into two parts. Let’s see if our trusty AI-cofounder can lighten the load for us.

So far in this series we’ve looked at how startups can use AI to perform:

10 Ways to Start A Company Using AI: Research (Part 1)

So you want to start a company? Your first port of call might be to browse the internet, find websites with potentially useful information, read lines upon lines yourself, and take actions based on all of that. But with such an abundance of information on the internet, you might find yourself trying to crawl your way out of a deep rabbit hole of your own clicking! Oooff…

It’s 2023. We’re better than this. Let’s use artificial intelligence (AI) to make this whole process easier. More time spent on taking action!

This article explores the use case of text analysis in the important stages of founding a company. Specifically, the article covers hiring new talent and raising capital.

How To Start A Company With AI: Text Analysis

Welcome to the first article in the series “How To Start a Company Using Artificial Intelligence”. This article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to summarise large amounts of complicated text into meaningful insights to help you on your journey of becoming an AI-empowered startup founder!

This article explores how aspiring founders can use generative AI to summarise steps and documents to create their startup.

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