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๐ŸŒŠ 0 to $500K ARR in Months: Konvo AIโ€™s Ecommerce Agent Blueprint | Guillem Oliva (Konvo AI)

How two founders went from kitchen-table MVP to 200 brands and 8% agent-led conversion โ€” in under a year.
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๐ŸŒŠ How AI agents turn buyer research into GTM execution | Clint Burgess (Founder at CharacterQuilt, ex-Bloomreach)
From 500 interviews to instant GTM โ€” how AI persona agents are changing how founders go from research to execution.
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๐ŸŒŠ The New Rules of Raising โ€” Intel from 22 AI Rounds, Redpointโ€™s Data, and $5B+ Playbooks
I looked at 22+ AI startups that raised Seed rounds across Europe last month. I did a fast breakdown of the dataโ€”and a few key trends stood out. Theโ€ฆ
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Ivan Landabaso
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๐ŸŒŠ When AI Meets the Market
How AI is reshaping IPO markets, NVIDIA on the โ€œDigital Workforceโ€, Sequoia on how AI changes startups, Microsoft on AIโ€™s value capture, Anthropicโ€ฆ
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Ivan Landabaso
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๐ŸŒŠ AI Agent-to-Agent
The AI consumer revolution, how AI agents are changing the Enterprise, AI Agents dominating YC W25 batch, Anthropicโ€™s AI job market impact, AI toolingโ€ฆ
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Ivan Landabaso
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๐ŸŒŠ GTM Engineering: Building a Modern Sales Stack
Spent an hour with Fivos Aresti (Head of Growth at ColdIQ) to unpack the key lessons from scaling GTM with AI tools for early-stage startups. Hereโ€™s theโ€ฆ
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Ivan Landabaso
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๐ŸŒŠ AI Agent Directories
AI Factories: The Race Is OnHyperscalersโ€™ CapEx is set to hit $๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฐ๐—• ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ - this is huge.What does this mean? It means scaling isnโ€™tโ€ฆ
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Ivan Landabaso
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๐ŸŒŠ GTM + AI (Part II): How Founders Are Rebuilding Sales in 2025
We flew my friend Sunny, Director of Strategy at Gong.io, over to Madrid for an in-person event to discuss the role of AI in sales.Turns out the salesโ€ฆ
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Ivan Landabaso
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๐ŸŒŠ Agentic Revolution
Weโ€™re at the beginning of a new Industrial Revolution. But instead of generating electricity, weโ€™re generating intelligenceโ€ฆ [Open source] activatedโ€ฆ
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Ivan Landabaso
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๐ŸŒŠ Founder Compensation: The Line Between Grit and Self-Sabotage
Founders tend to be secretive about their salaries. I donโ€™t really blame them. For one reason or another, this whole subject is shrouded in secrecy. Butโ€ฆ
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