... Team is now 2 founders, 2 engineers, AI QA + day-one consultant. Oh, and a baby was born yesterday! - Inbound pilots from a top 10 tech company, top 3 ad network, top 3 bank. - Great investor convos at Web Summit + SF. The meh: - Multi-party autonomous AI is still hard , even seems challenging for the infinite resource of OpenAI. - More features = more bugs. We're on it. - AI agent fatigue everywhere. I thought LinkedIn was noisy then I walked ... ... what their past investments have in common. 2. Start with one great anecdote; if it lands, you ll see it instantly. I now have one that I love to tell and the flashes in their eyes feel rewarding. - US vs

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... everyone, I've been doing a lot of pitching recently. I went to Web Summit where I got pitched at a lot. And my LinkedIn inbox is non-stop infinity loops of pitching at me. = Therefore, I've been thinking about the topic a lot! I think it's fair and obvious to say, some people can communicate better than others. It's an art. I can't dance either, it's just life. The shame is that some brilliant ... ... everything. If you re selling luxury in a downturn, you re not reading the room. Here s what a great cold pitch looks like for me right now: Hey Dan, saw you founded Meet-Ting. I assume your biggest competitor

... nerd), I dissected the bigger-picture story: what the founders emphasized, how the reporter framed it, and the pitch that might have landed them coverage. It turned into a case study I shared throughout The To Do List Summit , a one-day event for startup founders on reaching audiences across press, video, social, and events. (The next one is November 8 in San Francisco, and I hope to see you there.) Some attendees even asked if Athena was a client ... ... your routine: Read the outlets read by your target audience, and pay attention to what s being covered (and what s not). Follow relevant reporters on X and other social platforms. Set up Google News alerts on your competitors

... beats a spray-and-pray approach. This is just the beginning, and I ve got a lot more to share. I ll be diving into it with some fellow YC alums on August 9 at The To Do List Summit in San Francisco, sponsored by Sentry, Brex, and Tandem. It s a one-day event for early-stage founders to learn how to execute on comms, video, social, and events and reach their target audience in a very crowded market ... ... Very tactically, should you include "AI" in your tagline or not? How do you stand out when you have a product in a really crowded space? Or worse, a product in a crowded space where all of the other competitors

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... Exciting news, makers, we are hosting our first ever virtual summit this July and I would love to see you there! You can register for free here . Expect to hear from amazing individuals from the Product Hunt network: founders, investors, indie makers and individuals on the rise in their fields: from D2C to no code to blockchain and so much more. I'm in the process of inviting speakers and would love to hear from you - who do you want ... ... hear from at the summit