The AI industry currently produces new startups in something that is probably best described as a Cambrian explosion. We have seen this frantic pace of company creation before in other technology waves, such as the dot-com boom of the late 90s and the SaaS boom of the early 2010s. Nobody […] The post What does the AI startup of the future look like? Lessons from the SaaS boom appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
Unpopular opinion: While everyone talks about AI’s ability to efficiently produce cognitive deliverables — such as writing code, creating content, and analyzing data — a massive opportunity is hiding in plain sight: coordination. Some studies suggest that up to 50%-60% of employees’ time in large corporations is spent coordinating rather […] The post How AI-Driven Coordination Will Change the Organizational Reward Function appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
What’s the future of productivity: Pre-programmed, AI-enabled workflows or fully autonomous, general-purpose AI agents? There are currently two schools of thought in the AI industry when it comes to the near future of AI agents: One perspective thinks that AI works best when it’s combined with more traditional code and […] The post Choose your tool: Pre-packaged AI workflows or autonomous AI agents? appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
The software industry is a very dynamic environment. According to some estimates, there are currently over 27,000 active SaaS companies, and the number keeps growing. With all this activity, it’s easy to forget that the current business model of software as a service is already the third fundamentally different way […] The post The Fourth Wave: How AI is Reshaping Software Business Models appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
Even for experts, it’s currently very hard to make sense of the incredibly rapid and dramatic trends in the AI market. But that’s not surprising for a massive new tech wave. The tech industry doesn’t move in a linear fashion. S-curve-like patterns can be found everywhere. Not much seems to […] The post The many S-Curves of AI appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
Anyone who (like me) was around for the original Internet boom of the late 1990s and is now witnessing the hype around Generative AI can’t help but see quite a few similarities. To be clear, I have absolutely no doubt that generative AI is a generational technological breakthrough and will […] The post What we can learn about the Generative AI market from the lessons of the dot-com boom appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
Nine months after the release of ChatGPT, this is a question that suddenly quite a few people are asking. AI luminaries such as Gary Marcus and François Chollet as well as respected industry analysts such as Ben Evans are openly postulating that Gen AI might not be the civilization-changing, business-disrupting […] The post Is Generative AI a dud? appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
We’re currently hearing a lot about how generative AI, particularly large language models like ChatGPT, could replace white-collar knowledge workers. And venture capitalists are, at least in a large part of their job, knowledge workers. So which parts of a VC’s job could AI take over? To start with the […] The post Can AI replace VCs? Three experiments appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
Entrepreneurship is the most important driver of our economy. People who dare to leave the security of a salaried job and start their own company are probably the greatest source of innovation, growth and creativity. In addition to ideas, market knowledge and leadership skills, founders need two things above all: […] The post Entrepreneurship and ambition: Europe has a lot of catching up to do appeared first on Innospective.| Innospective
By now we probably all understand that the current market situation in the tech industry is not just a blip, but likely a serious downturn that could last many months or even years. I’ve been Read more…| Innospective