Meta Uses AI to Drive Monetization

Meta (Nasdaq: META), formerly Facebook, announced its quarterly results that continued to outpace market expectations. Meta has been in the news recently as it pivots its stand on fact checking policies to align with the US government’s views. Its continued investments in AI and future growth engines are helping its stock rise. The company’s stock rose 1.5% in the afterhours trading session and has already gained more than 15% this year.

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The Startup Velocity Question: What Hinders Fundability?

If you want your startup to become fundable, be acutely aware of the roadblocks.

The first and most crucial is Velocity.

What are the barriers to achieving Velocity?

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Colors: Light I

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Light I

Light I | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper

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Colors: Les Mouettes III

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Les Mouettes III

Les Mouettes III | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 9 x 12, On Paper

February 13 – 672nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 672nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET / 9:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested.

671st 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Roundtable Recap: February 6 – TAM Should be Bottom-Up, Not Top-Down

During this week’s roundtable, we had five really interesting presentations.

Ottermap

Up first Amit Verma from Delhi, India, pitched Ottermap, an area estimation tool for landscaping and other types of service providers in North America using satellite data. The company is already in revenue.

Adventuronomy

Then Lalit Kumar from Silicon Valley, California, pitched Adventuronomy, an outdoor activity portal concept.

Pukaar.ai

Next, Karan Birpali from Delhi, India, pitched Pukaar.ai, an AI-enabled child cry monitoring and analysis product to enable timely intervention.

Audition

Then Anudeep Yegireddi from Bengaluru, India, pitched Audition, an AI-enabled recruitment evaluation software.

Book My Teacher

From Bihar, India, Deepika Sinha pitched Book My Teacher, a tutoring marketplace concept.

Almost all pitches need to rework their TAM models.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Cloud Stocks: Google Launches Agentic AI Model

This week, Alphabet aka Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) reported a mixed fourth quarter. It missed the revenue estimate as the cloud business growth was less than the previous quarter.