New Startup Playbooks

I was catching up with Alex Kremer, a friend from the Boulder startup ecosystem yesterday and we spent a lot of time talking about how to build, especially start, companies today.

I think we’ve all been figuring this out post-AI revolution for coding, but really, there isn’t a playbook. Alex’s question, which is now my question too after hearing it, is what’s the standard playbook for starting, operating, and funding companies in today’s day and age?

We talked a lot about how capital structures are changing, the required capital to get validation is much lower, how we’re missing a Lean Startup 2.0 for the AI age, and how the overall TAM of software might actually increase even if the cost to produce it decreases.

I haven’t thought about it for a while, so I’m strongly in the camp of IDK ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I appreciate Alex posing the question though, because I think it’s one that a lot of us are asking ourselves implicitly, on the fly, as we’re building these days. It’s still early-innings of the post AI wave era, and I’m very excited to see where it goes