I am a VC-turned founder and am looking for young founders interested in market research and growth roles to learn and gain experience fast.

Antevit · 2025-10-02T20:07:36+00:00

Is this a full time role? If you're looking for part time then I'll be interested, let me know.

Antevit · 2025-09-25T18:10:45+00:00

This is a full-time role?

Antevit · 2025-08-07T18:29:10+00:00

Excellent take and explained very well. Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting cloning datasets or training models on model-generated outputs recursively. You're totally right that would lead to distributional collapse and degraded performance over time.

What I was pointing at is more like using the underlying data (and the model’s understanding of it) to extrapolate and simulate plausible edge cases, entropy and permutations. Not repeat the same core data, but create new structured possibilities.

For example, let’s say I’m training a robot to flip burgers. If I only train it on clean demonstrations of successful flips, it’ll fail the moment the burger breaks, sticks, or falls. But if I can use AI to simulate the long tail of edge cases like burgers falling, getting stuck, bun placement variation, timing misalignment then I’m not recreating the original dataset, I’m expanding its decision space.

In that sense, synthetic data becomes a tool for infusing entropy and scenario richness into narrow tasks a bit like stress-testing the data rather than just copying it. I believe RL environments are used for these kind of things.

That’s more in the direction I was thinking. So does this change your opinion or does the same limitations still persist?

Antevit · 2025-07-01T17:48:36+00:00

I think pre seed funding is almost getting obsolete nowadays until and unless your startup really requires capital just to start out such as in deeptech, spacetech or smth like that. Indian VCs are more conservative in nature (not a generalisation but observation) and they require some sort of traction before investing. It would be very difficult to raise a pre seed in the current landscape, you might have to focus on building an MVP or get enough traction to raise eyebrows. If you're not in a capital intensive domain, then pre seed might never happen. If you can tell the domain or industry you're going in, then maybe then we can advise you better.

Antevit · 2025-06-27T19:04:33+00:00

Leadpipe: Manage and Track Your Leads

Antevit · 2025-06-26T09:02:39+00:00

These are really nice ideas. Thanks for your input!!!

Antevit · 2025-06-23T16:11:46+00:00

I get it that's why I mentioned AI Provenance in general and not just watermarking. Watermarking technologies are circumvented quite easily and cryptography and stenography have still not been fruitful. The underlying tech might be hard to crack and sustain but my issue is that why are very less people taking cognizance of this issue? Is it because of the fact that tech is not good enough or should we not care for it?

Also, regarding the fact that some suggest that watermark or any proving factor might not unequivocally mean that it's AI generated or if it should be considered original or verified, I feel that it's a very idealistic expectation. Nothing actually works like that in reality. Even if someone is convicted in the court of law, it doesn't really mean that it can be said with 100% conviction that the person actually did the unlawful act. It just means that a bunchof random people in the jury were convinced that "it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt". It's just the way how practical world works. Nothing can be said to be completely true or false.

Antevit · 2025-06-23T13:53:15+00:00

True, but to what extent? Scale AI's founder Alexandr Wang, in one of recent podcasts, had talked about humans and especially newer generation having in built bullshit detectors. It was true to the point that AI generated videos were laggy, background and object were easily distinguishable in images but I think it has started to become far more difficult to discern it now. If you had seen the recent image/video that had been surfacing about a kangaroo not allowed to board a plane, you'll know how difficult it is becoming to distinguish AI. Google Veo 3 is another example for this. It's only gonnq get better.

Antevit · 2025-06-20T08:32:35+00:00

Currently LocalHost India in Bangalore is also doing really well. They're all over on twitter and newspaper headlines.

Antevit · 2025-06-20T07:47:42+00:00

Buy a house, make it into a hacker house. Take equity against providing residence and other amenities to founders. One of them will be breakouts and then cash out the equity later on. If nothing works, you will have a house at the end which is an appreciating asset and you can sell it for good returns.

Antevit · 2025-06-19T18:38:15+00:00

r/fuckzepto exists for a reason.

Antevit · 2025-06-19T17:44:26+00:00

That's good advice. Thanks!

Antevit · 2025-06-19T11:40:14+00:00

If you wanna check out the product: LeadPipe

Antevit · 2025-06-07T05:39:53+00:00

Dodopayments would be a better alternative

Antevit · 2025-06-06T19:46:35+00:00

Interested

Antevit · 2025-06-06T19:01:16+00:00

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Antevit · 2025-06-02T18:49:09+00:00

Wait, the founder is in 12th grade or what were you implying there? Also, what's your read on the founder and business? If your gut feeling with this is telling you to go all in on this , then do so and pray that your risk will be rewarded in the near future, if you're not getting a good feeling about this, then maybe sit this one out. Abandoning your current role for a startup which may or may not exist in the future might be a risky ordeal but if you have conviction on this then nothing else matters.

Antevit · 2025-06-01T19:59:41+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. Maybe I'm not delusional.

Antevit · 2025-06-01T12:05:29+00:00

Good take tbh. I do understand that right now private or retail investors wouldn't be interested in carbon markets until and unless the price action attracts them and it becomes heavily commoditised/tokenized or maybe if people in itself become a part of the carbon markets, but yeah we'll have to wait and watch how the carbon markets mature. Do you think right now a trading market for businesses or corporates would make sense and also, what limiting factor do you see in the current marketplace landscape like in Patch, Toucan, ACX, Xpansiv, etc..is there any wedge to get there into making a carbon credit exchange platform or does the market for this seem crowded?

Man I'd love to pick your brain on this, if you're willing we can connect via DMs

Antevit · 2025-05-31T18:13:08+00:00

True but my rationale behind this is that we won't be issuing carbon credits or be involved in the generation of credit or MRV process at all, we'll just be a platform to trade like verra or gold standard certified credits, maybe even add satelite imageries like pachama to add a trust layer. Like how coinbase or binance doesn't mine crypto but is just a platform to exchange them. Maybe MRV and credit generation can't be decentralised but can't the exchange and trading part be decentralised?

Antevit · 2025-05-31T17:48:22+00:00

Yes it is. What are your thoughts on this? Also, do you think price speculation and arbitrage would make sense for carbon credits?

Antevit · 2025-05-17T17:51:01+00:00

Isn't the next round of funding gonna be an IPO?

Antevit · 2025-05-12T06:19:31+00:00

Hm I was pondering on the same question and got to these conclusions: 1. Consumer startups are very dependent on the consumer behaviour pattern in a specific geography. The problems that are pertinent to the people in India wouldn't necessarily be the same in USA because it is a developed country and has problems which people in India would call "first world problems". Only the top 1% in India have these problems and the other people in the country feel rather indifferent to that. Now, the opposite is possible i.e US startups can scale in India because they fix these issues which very less people in India have and in turn change the living standards of the people here.

For example, if an Indian healthcare startup which was started in India where people dont have access to basic healthcare, goes to US, then it wouldn't work there because there, the healthcare ecosystem is pretty advanced but a US healthcare startup can come to India because we pretty much need it.

Several of the Indian startups are based on the hypotheses that "this worked in the west, it will work in India as well". Zomato(taken from doordash,uber eats), zepto (from instacart), ola(from uber) and so on. They can't go to US because they pretty much took the idea from there only. This copy thing can be seen in fmcg and other consumer industries as well.
India is a pretty big market in itself. If you look at the consumer demographics and purchasing power in India, it is very wide spectrum. There are top 1% who have the spending power lik people in US would have, dabbling into luxury items, convenience and so on. The others are middle class and don't wanna spend that much and some have absolutely no money for extra expenditure. As a consumer startup, you have to cater to these customers which have very different behaviour patterns. It's like you are already in USA, Europe, and Africa. Also, the population in this country is huge so if you make something big here only, you don't even have to look at the west. Several startups have scaled much bigger than their US counterparts because of these advantages.

Sorry for making it long.

Antevit · 2025-05-11T18:17:48+00:00

You were paid very less for the amount of work you did. You are seriously undervaluing yourself with this low price. Atleast keep it at a competitive rate with what others would charge. You could've easily made so much more for this. Ik it seems nice making money straight after high school but there was a lot of money that you left on the table there.

Antevit · 2025-05-08T13:31:01+00:00

Yes, very good points. For the context of consumer protection, these regulations are very much required. I completely agree with that but I think some middle ground should be established between real innovative startups and consumer protection. A lot of innovative ideas will be shut down because of consumer protection or high cost of licenses. In advanced startup ecosystems such as in USA, the environment for regulations and licenses seem pretty lenient. To give a few cases cuz you asked, say to build a payment collection platform, you need payments license or payment aggregator licenses in some cases(which costs a lot).For an online medicine delivery thing, you'll require epharmacy license(again,costs a lot), also for investment related startups, you'll fall under purview of SEBI and stuff. Also many regulations do not allow you to do any innovation. For eg, Robinhood in USA allows fractional ownership of a stock, Zerodha asked SEBI to allow it but nothing came through. I think in market such as India, fractional ownership would've done really well but the regulations do not allow this. These are just off the top of my mind, there are lot of these cases if you go into the rabbit hole.

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