How To Build a Defensible A.I. Startup

If you have strong analytical skills that might be applicable in a number of disciplines, it is very much worth considering the strength of the competition. It is often possible to make a profit by being pretty good at prediction in fields where the competition succumbs to poor incentives, bad habits, or blind adherence to tradition—or because you

Said another way, this question is asking, in just four words, “What makes you uniquely qualified to pursue this business? What secrets do you know that will help you beat both the incumbents and your fast followers?” Sometimes, founders will not have an answer for this question. And that’s okay. This is one you often end up answering while looking

Most products these days are low technical risk—meaning they won’t fail because the teams can’t execute on the engineering side to build the products—but they are generally also low defensibility. When something works, others can follow—and fast.