The Importance of Understanding the Customer Needs

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How do you or how have you been able to understand the customer needs? What are the tools and techniques that you've used. How much of the business has turned out to be live versus library? And this is something content creators always think about, we did a little experiment here with live shows.

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Today’s show:

First up, Sunny Madra is back to discuss the “AI wrapper” stigma, the first official demo-to-investment, and demo more useful AI products! (2:41) Then, Tonebase CEO Igor Lichtmann joins to demo his product, break down how he achieved product-market fit while maintaining capital efficiency, and more! (42:47)

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(0:00) Sunny Madra is back for more AI demos!

(2:41) The “AI wrapper" debate; VenturusAI is joining the LAUNCH Accelerator as the first full-circle demo-to-investment

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(11:23) Klap.app turns YouTube links into multiple TikTok-style videos with captions and ranks them on "Virality Score"

(19:08) Kickresume uses generative AI tools to help users build a fully-fleshed out resumes and prepare for job interviews

(25:15) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist

(26:34) Browse AI helps users build AI-powered web scraping/data extraction bots with no code

(34:16) Oppwiser is an AI-powered lead gen platform for sales teams

(41:16) Eight Sleep - Go to https://eightsleep.com/twist to check out the Pod Cover and get $150 off at checkout!

(42:47) Tonebase CEO Igor Lichtmann joins to demo his music education startup, break down how he achieved product-market fit while maintaining capital efficiency, and more!

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