Startup Improv

Seth and Matt discuss business ideas related to seed oils, continuous glucose monitoring, and more!

The boys discuss business ideas for ChatGPT plugins!

In this episode, Seth and Matt riff on business ideas from the latest YCombinator batch. The companies include: - Forfeit (https://www.forfeit.app/) - Finni (https://www.finnihealth.com/) - Quazel (https://quazel.com/) - Pierre (https://heypierre.app/) - Planar (https://www.useplanar.com/) - Metal (https://getmetal.io/) - Milestones (https://www.getmilestones.com/) - Wild Moose (https://www.wildmo...

Seth and Matt discuss: (00:00) - Practical thoughts on starting a business (7:02) - Create creatine gummies, and building brands around supplements (9:46) - Reflections from past podcast episodes (22:47) - Finding influencers within companies to sell B2B products (32:05) - A marketplace for premium fan-designed jerseys (38:33) - Joining vs. disrupting @mindbody (49:51) - Carve outs! ...and more!

Welcome to another episode of Startup Improv! 0:13 Running a No Code MBA event on ConferenceTap 6:34 The importance of product design 9:08 Business ideas around tech layoffs 34:56 Carveouts

Seth and Matt discuss what they would each do if they were laid off, fine-tuning and embedding AI models, and more!

Enjoy our yearly chat on our reviews and goals!

The boys are joined by Andrew Just, Founder + CEO of Train Fitness , to chat about business ideas related to AI Some of the topics include: (1:35) Introducing Andrew + Train Fitness (15:00) Andrew’s idea for AI personal assistant (22:26) Andrew’s idea for improving ecommerce purchasing (25:21) Matt’s idea: personalized, AI-generated clothing brands (30:56) Seth’s idea: no code tools for developing...

Seth and Matt discuss: (00:38) Seth’s newest project: Ask No Code (20:55) Matt’s theory on why companies fail when they launch new products (30:22) Choosing the right fundraising strategy for your business (38:47) Is it smart to start an AI business right now? (52:44) Twitter drama (1:01:03) How AI intersects with Meta’s VR bet (1:07:56) Thoughts about hiring (1:09:51) Carve outs

This week, Seth and Matt discuss: (2:07) Takeaways from Invent and Wonder (13:43) Why content companies with strong IP will win with AI (18:08) Replacing advertisement patches on sports jerseys with AI (25:51) Carve outs

Episode 26: In this episode of Startup Improv, Matt and Seth chat about:    4:13: AI for furniture, clothes, and style 20:47: Stripe is a behemoth - what happened to Braintree?   33:27: Github Co-pilot 37:00: Getting value of Youtube 42:24: Making friends as adults 46:36: How we think about the future of our careers 50:42: Frank Slootman 52:23: Computer Scientists vs Engineers &nbsp...

We've been thinking more about investing and wanted to share some stock picks we've been thinking about, including: - (3:02) Peloton - (7:44) Helium - (21:06) Shopify - (26:28) Meta Insert the standard warning that you hear on every podcast: this is NOT investment advice!

AI has exploded since we chatted about it in episode 21, so we HAD to get back together to discuss the recent developments. We explore Stable Diffusion, which companies are likely to win AI, and more!

This week, Seth and Matt discuss: - (2:24) Browsers and Apple Watches as the next big platforms - (2:23) Why Replit will kill GitHub - (30:10) An idea for VC funds to offer founders shares in the portfolio - ...and more!

We're back with episode 2 of our emerging technologies season with a brainstorm on VR! If you can think of anyone who would enjoy this too, please share one of the episode segments with a friend! Our take on the current state and future of VR (2:51) VR Psychedelics (without drugs) (7:15) VR Sleepmasks (8:29) VR Golf (11:55) VR Coaching (14:44) Teaching devs how to build in VR (20:24) VR Shopping (...

We’re sharing a bonus episode on our plan for growing the Startup Improv podcast, including our personal goals, outsourcing all the work beyond just recording the pod, and our strategies for growing the pod.

We’re kicking off a new season on emerging technologies to chat about artificial intelligence! Ideas include: - How we’d grow a pushup tracking app to $1M in annual revenue (1:54) - AI assistants that help humans with work tasks (18:55) - Productizing AI services, like selling icons, illustrations, YouTube thumbnails, and video titles (24:44) - Making yourself look hot in dating app pics (27:44) -...

The boys are BACK! Seth and Matt got together to discuss business opportunities related to Twitter, including: - Aggregating the best things people read each week (00:53) - Making Twitter more social (1:51) - Unbundling Twitter communities (14:24) - What would it look like if Twitter and Reddit had a baby? (16:10) - Building Twitter Creator tools (27:20) - GPT-3 for creating new Twitter content (2...

We're back with another unbundling episode! Today we’re unbundling one of the most successful devices ever created - the iPhone. A few ideas we cover in this episode: A physical device to use in the evening/morning instead of your phone Business opportunities around Apple Shortcuts A single-purpose writing device Follow us on Twitter: Seth: https://twitter.com/sethjkramer Matt: https://twitter.com...

I interviewed my uncle Julian to learn about my grandpa (David Goldstein), whose entrepreneurial journey led him from success, to bankruptcy, and back to success in the field of optical engineering. My grandpa died when I was 3, and I never heard the full story about how he grew up and ran his businesses. Julian, who is the Co-CEO of Navitar (alongside his brother Jeremy), sat down with me to chat...

Today, Seth and Matt share ideas about how they would unbundle Airbnb! Ideas include: - @wander for gyms and kitchens - Giving away tiny homes - PE roll up of Airbnb properties - A service helping small businesses identify the best real estate to move in to - Scott's Cheap Flights for incredible Airbnbs around the world - trymystery.com for long distance couples

Today we're joined by Ryan Caradonna, co-founder of eq keys, to chat about: - The origin of eq keys - The state of music NFTs - Raising money in a volatile crypto industry ..and more!

As if it weren't covered enough already, Seth + Matt discuss Ryan Breslow's tweet storm about Stripe + YC Then, the boys discuss business opportunities for Smart Cities, including: (4:33) Sidewalk Labs: Google's failed smart city project (11:00) Telosa: a new city founded by Marc Lore (19:42) EPCOT: the OG smart city (29:13) Helium...but selling excess energy to neighbors (47:09) Carve Outs

This week's episode combines a brainstorm (and questions we have) about DAOs, and also a brainstorm about how Seth and Matt are growing their twitter accounts! (1:32) Some questions about DAOs (5:12) Idea: Shopify for DAOs (7:14) Idea: The opportunity for lawyers (13:37) DAOs / No-Code (21:14) Governance (24:13) Philanthropy through DAOs (35:51) Strategy session: how we're growing our twitter acco...

This week's episode is jam packed with ideas about how Seth and Matt would unbundle LinkedIn! 🧑‍💻 (0:53) Thoughts on LinkedIn: what they do well and don’t do well (6:50) Idea: Twitter -> Linkedin integration (10:38) Idea: Should LinkedIn open their API for free? (14:06) Idea: Lego-block portfolio (17:00) Idea: Reference check marketplace (22:54) Idea: Vertical job marketplaces (29:45) Idea: N...