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In This Edition:
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100 Pitch Decks You Must
See!
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The Essential GPT-4.1
Prompt Guide
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25 Hard Questions Every
Founder Faces
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️ OpenAI's Game-Changing
Image Library
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Billion-Dollar AI
Startups, Tiny Teams!
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Is OpenAI Challenging X
& Meta?
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100 Startup
Pitch Decks
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Ever seen the
actual slides
that convinced
investors to
say yes?
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From pre-seed
hustle
to Series B
polish, these decks
show how companies
like Airbnb, Fivetran, and Ring
framed their
ideas, traction,
and vision —
sometimes before
they even had a
product. No fluff.
No theories. Just
real decks from
real startups.
Whether
you're:
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This resource is
a treasure chest
of insight and
inspiration.
️ Dive into
the full
curated list
of 100
startup
pitch
decks.
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Venture Scout
High-quality software
startups delivered straight
to your inbox, every
Wednesday.
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The Essential
GPT-4.1 Prompt
Guide
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The GPT-4.1 model
brings significant
improvements in
instruction-following,
code generation,
and handling
long-context
inputs. Here’s how
to optimize your
prompts:
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Agentic
Workflows:
Use
structured
prompts with
reminders
for
persistence,
tool usage,
and
step-by-step
planning to
turn GPT-4.1
into a
goal-driven
problem
solver.
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Smarter
Tool
Usage:
Define tools
via the API
(not the
prompt) for
accurate
execution
and reduced
hallucinations.
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Chain-of-Thought
Reasoning:
Prompt
GPT-4.1 to
reason step
by step.
Explicit
planning
boosts
success in
complex
tasks.
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Literal
Instruction
Following:
The model
follows your
instructions
precisely—so
be specific,
unambiguous,
and test
thoroughly.
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1M Token
Context
Window:
Perfect for
parsing
large
documents
and
multi-hop
reasoning.
Place
instructions
at the
beginning
and end of
your context
block for
best
results.
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✨ Pro Tip:
Use markdown or
XML formatting for
long-context
prompts. Avoid
JSON for better
performance.
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Curious to see it
in action? Click here
to explore
the
SWE-bench
Verified prompt in full.
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25 Bold Founder
Questions
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Some questions
clarify. Others
redefine
everything. First Round
Capital
has compiled a
game-changing
guide: 25 Hard
Questions
Every Founder
Should Ask
Themselves
— a PDF packed
with insights from
startup leaders
like Colin Zima
(Omni), Rahul
Vohra
(Superhuman),
and Annie
Duke.
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A sneak peek into
the questions that
cut deep:
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Did
today’s
work
actually
move the
needle?
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If we had
to start
over, what
would we
build to
win—now?
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Are we
led by
vision—or
just
momentum?
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Would 100
deals like
this
excite us…
or terrify
us?
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Also featuring
strategies from
Sam Corcos
(Levels), Laura
Behrens Wu
(Shippo), and
Kevin Caldwell
(Ossium Health) on
scaling smarter,
faster.
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Read the full
list &
download the
PDF: 25 Hard
Questions
Every
Founder
Should Ask
Themselves.
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ChatGPT
Library
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OpenAI has
officially rolled
out a Library tab
in ChatGPT—making
it easier than
ever to access and
manage all your
AI-generated
images, including
those from the
viral Ghibli trend, action figures,
avatars, and
more.
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What’s New:
No more scrolling
through old
chats—every image you
create is now
saved
in one central
place.
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✅ Highlights:
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Free for
all users
(Free, Plus,
Pro)
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Available
on web &
mobile (iOS,
Android)
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Find it
under
sidebar →
“Library”
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Create
images
directly
from
Library
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Mobile
access: Open ChatGPT
app → Tap
top-left → Go to
“Library”
Check out the
ChatGPT
Library.
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Billion-Dollar
AI Startups With
Tiny Teams!
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AI innovation
isn’t about how many—it’s about how smart!
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Some of the most valuable
AI companies are
building
billion-dollar
empires with
surprisingly lean teams—in some cases,
fewer than 50
employees.
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Take a look at a
few standouts:
Safe
Superintelligence
– Only 10
employees
Adept,
StackBlitz,
Anysphere,
Midjourney
– Under 50
Cognition,
Flex, Runway,
Hebbia, Clay,
Celestial AI
– 50 to 100
Writer, Harvey,
Replit, Mistral
AI, Figure,
Perplexity,
ElevenLabs,
EliseAI, Groq
– Under 200
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Meanwhile, giants
like Anthropic
and OpenAI
scale past 300 and
2500+
respectively.
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Explore how
these AI
unicorns are
scaling with
surgical
precision
and lean
teams.
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OpenAI Wants to
Replace X
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OpenAI is
reportedly
developing a
social platform
featuring ChatGPT’s image
generation. The project
aims to compete
with X (Twitter)
and Meta’s
platforms. With real-time
data access,
OpenAI could train
its AI models even
further.
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The project is
still in its early
stages, and it’s
unclear if it will
launch publicly,
but it's clear
OpenAI is looking
to expand beyond
just AI.
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Sam Altman
is seeking
feedback on this
venture, but
whether it will
launch publicly
remains uncertain.
Either way,
OpenAI’s move
marks a new frontier
for both AI and
social media.
More
details
here.
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WEB PICKS
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Grok
@grok
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Today,
we
are
releasing
the
first
version
of
Grok
studio,
adding
code
execution
and
google
drive
support.
Grok
Studio
Grok
can
now
generate
documents,
code,
reports,
and
browser
games.
Grok
Studio
will
open
your
content
in
a
separate
window,
allowing
both
you
and
Grok
to
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