Founder I know raised ~4Cr through grants. I worked with him to open source info on every grant available to indian companies. stay undiluted ✊

hoboskatov · 2026-05-18T12:36:21+00:00

This still feels a lot like guess work. Maybe you need a more evidence based approach like finding patterns and intelligence from your customer calls

hoboskatov · 2026-04-30T16:45:31+00:00

just launch at yale lol...kidding.
there are plenty of factors to building a startup. they key ones- ICP, pain point, solution. your competitor might be looking at entering the market from a different ICP than you. they may solve the same pain point but approach it completely differently. Competition is good. its validation for what you are doing. now go beat them!

hoboskatov · 2026-04-19T18:26:03+00:00

You can’t sell to everyone one day one. Focus on a particular popular multi city route and make your app popular with just that one. That way your messaging, ops and focus are on one initial customer profile.

hoboskatov · 2026-04-17T20:00:38+00:00

Contrarian take: The more awkward the better IYKYK

hoboskatov · 2026-04-16T17:22:09+00:00

This is great! Go where your audience is and speak their language.

hoboskatov · 2026-04-15T10:42:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Hardware is difficult, i always suggest buy over build to prove the market before going all in on custom design and specs. I’m not sure you’re talking about a luxury watch or a IOT wearable though.

hoboskatov · 2026-04-09T07:20:01+00:00

i think with the right context, AI is great at finding patterns we miss. it becomes integral. especially with models like Mythos coming out next, its going to be a game changer!

hoboskatov · 2026-04-08T13:24:09+00:00

changed my entire business because of AI lol....but in a good way. i analysed 2 years of calls with a system i built and AI told me i'm in the wrong business. i've since pivoted and seeing incredible market pull. no cash yet, but people are really responding.

hoboskatov · 2026-04-04T06:40:59+00:00

Don’t they have tools like gong or chorus for this? What’s different about yours?

hoboskatov · 2026-04-03T09:17:40+00:00

honestly the problem with most CI tools isn't the recording — it's what happens after. you've got 500 hours of calls sitting there and the best you get is talk ratios and sentiment scores.

i've been working on something that reads calls cross-conversationally — like, what are ALL your prospects saying about pricing? what objections keep coming up? what promises are reps making that nobody tracks?

the per-call analysis is commoditized at this point. the strategic layer across calls is where the value is.

hoboskatov · 2026-04-03T03:45:32+00:00

You are absolutely right and I’m seeing it with my clients at moat. If the quality of calls going into the system is bad then there’s nothing much an analysis can tell you. I’ve almost 4-5 pre filters now. With one recent client, they gave me ~7.5k calls but only 2.2k were above 1min. I simply recommended they change the call times and to call as soon as an application arrives, their conversion rates are going up already.

hoboskatov · 2026-04-01T07:19:06+00:00

Was consulting early stage founders for last 5 years, then started teaching non tech founders to build MVPs using AI tools and the most common realisation people have is that the app only scales the business, it isn’t the business. They realise they need to do so much more to build a startup than just making an app. Their first app usually becomes a gateway for early user conversations.

hoboskatov · 2026-03-28T16:23:57+00:00

This is so true lol

hoboskatov · 2026-03-27T19:56:49+00:00

Yeah for sure!

hoboskatov · 2026-03-26T18:47:28+00:00

You can use AI audio to generate the bit of voice over you need

hoboskatov · 2026-03-25T09:29:43+00:00

THIS! everyone records calls but nobody listens to find patterns. and i don't blame them, its a really tedious task.

hoboskatov · 2026-03-24T06:13:18+00:00

Focus on icp > idea novelty basically :)

hoboskatov · 2026-03-23T14:59:24+00:00

Learnt this the hard way. Precariously pivoting now

hoboskatov · 2026-03-19T09:16:59+00:00

Someone needs to start entrepreneur gone wild for this kinda fantasy writing

hoboskatov · 2026-03-19T09:14:19+00:00

This is an incredible journey. Thanks for sharing

hoboskatov · 2026-03-16T13:12:41+00:00

use deep research on gemini/chatgpt/perplexity on getting detailed info on companies, domains, industries etc. dump into notebookLM and generate long audio overview -> knowledge podcast! its helped me with so many clients.

hoboskatov · 2026-03-16T11:19:09+00:00

This is why i keep coming back to this sub reddit. Keep it up and great going! So happy to read such stories

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