startup strategy
ElevenLabs’ Rapid Iteration Playbook Mati Staniszewski, CEO of ElevenLabs, shared the company's unique approach at an a16z event. > You have six months to prove Product-Market Fit (PMF). > Succeed, and continue; fail, and disband. Despite growing to 350 employees, ElevenLabs still runs with extreme speed and focus.
AI entrepreneurship
 --- ## Editor’s Note In today's era — where **artificial intelligence** and **globalization** converge — innovation is reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape with unprecedented **speed** and **depth**. On **October 12, 2025**, **NUS Business School EMBA**, along with Silicon Valley’
FDE model
Doing Things That Don’t Scale — at Scale --- Introduction The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model is Palantir’s distinctive go-to-market (GTM) and product deployment approach — recently one of Silicon Valley’s hottest discussion points. > In a YC survey, more than 100 startups are hiring FDE-related staff; three years
AI Agents
AI Creators Carnival: The "Agent" Debate During the AI Creators Carnival, five founders and partners—Zhai Xingji (Yuhe Technology), GuaiZi (Flowith), Chen Kaijie (Macaron), Lai Yunqi (RockFlow), and Wang Zhaoyang (Silicon Zeren)—engaged in an in‑person debate about AI Agent entrepreneurship. The conversation—captured below—spanned misconceptions,