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by surprisetalk·3y ago·view on hn ↗
I was laid off in early Feb.

But I'm doing great!

Without asking, I received a few job offers from friends-of-friends in my network.

Instead of jumping back into the workforce, I'm building my own startup. Almost finished with my MVP, and then going to pursue funding :)

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Why not pursue customers first?
Great question!

I really really wanted to bootstrap, but I have a family to support.

Funding means I will be able to provide myself a more reliable source of income while I get this thing off the ground.

Such a XX century mentality. In web 2.0, your customers are your investors: you take their money and deliver a business.
Nice! Great position to be in. What's the startup tackling?
It's an AI company (unrelated to LLM or stable diffusion).

I'm currently keeping the details secret because the tech is easy to weaponize...