If you lose investors during your pitch, the Q&A won’t save you.
@DemetriMxm shares one of his biggest lessons from pitching Nephrogen at Startup Battlefield: the pitch has to earn you the deeper conversation.
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- Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
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- OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
- Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.


