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Hey there! Welcome to my blog, where I write about my entrepreneurial journey. Last week I spent most of my time meeting (>20) people from my Antler cohort, doing a few more discovery interviews and starting to research the insights coming out of these interviews. 🅰️Preparing for the start of the program I’ve been meeting more and more potential co-founders last week, and I’m getting more and more excited to build something with one or more of them. Genuinely impressed with the high caliber of people that Antler selected for the program. There’s a wide diversity of demographics (age, origin, but less so gender) and experiences (AI, consulting, product management, research, large corporates). Many of the people I met are passionate about topics such as climate, health (including mental) and of course AI, and a few are serial entrepreneurs. ...

Hi and welcome to my weekly blog, where I write about my progress in building a company! I spent the last week mostly talking to people - I’m starting to get to know the awesome people in my Antler cohort (co-cohorters?), while also doing more discovery interviews. 🅰️Preparing for the start of the program The first few weeks of the program are about testing the compatibility waters by getting to know and trying to work with potential cofounders. It’s like a combination of The Bachelor and Shark Tank. Since a few weeks is not enough to give it a try with every single person, some pre-program speed dating can help surface both good/bad chemistry and common interests/goals. ...

Hey you! I’ve been heads down in the customer discovery process, so today I’ll be sharing a quick update on how that’s going + some stats on you 🥁 🙋Customer discovery progress Let’s start this off with some numbers. In the chart below you can see that around 1% (2/161) of cold messages get converted into interviews (🥲). Half of those messages were very lightly personalized, and half of them I personalized more thoroughly, including based on your feedback. Unfortunately that hasn’t made a difference yet. I’ll be following up with the people that haven’t replied yet (99%) - hopefully that will help. ...

Hey there, thanks for coming! This week I started customer development efforts. The goal is to talk to people that could benefit from using SquidGPT, and understand what problems it could help them solve. That should translate into improvements and new features in the app, which will turn it into a product people actually find helpful. Also, big announcement this week: I got accepted into Antler’s April Paris cohort. Today’s show: 🅰️Joining Antler 🙋First customer development efforts 🏛️Getting on the Slack app Marketplace 🗿Personal update: How’s it going, Stefan? ➡️Next steps 🅰️Joining Antler Antler is an early stage VC investor that runs a 10-week founder-matching program. By the end of these 10 weeks, I hope to have found a co-founder, developed an idea together and secured a seed investment (🤞). Exciting!!! ...

Hi and welcome to this week’s update! This week I was heads down coding the bot installation and user management. I finished that in good time and spent some time iterating implementing first feedback in SquidGPT’s website + some minor formatting improvements in the actual app. Finally, today I found out OpenAI is working on their own Slack app (⚠️) - no surprise there, but still . 🛴Road to a working prototype RIP old deadline of 28.02.23. New deadline 08.03.2022. Four main deliverables: ...