Ask HN: Learning about fundraising as first-time tech founders
12 by MasterScrat | 6 comments on Hacker News. After working in the Generative AI space as consultant/freelance for a few years, a friend and I have decided to create a company around it. There seems to be increasing VC interest in the field and we are getting contacted by multiple investors (we do realize this doesn't mean they want to immediately cut us a cheque). We have deep technical expertise but limited fundraising knowledge. What are the best resources to learn the fundamentals? eg: - How much should we aim to raise and at what valuation? - How to show financial projections in a field that evolves at such a breakneck speed? - Should we prioritize local (Europe, Switzerland) investors or North-American ones?
Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?
41 by CM30 | 23 comments on Hacker News. Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services? It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the 'wrong' people make use of them for the 'wrong' purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset? So is there anyone working in this field who isn't worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?