Interesting concept. Where's the NDA? I wouldn't want to submit potentially confidential information unless I knew it was protected. How secure is it? Is there a human on the other side? If so, are they in the US or overseas? Also has some exposure points on the bot side ... about making such affirmations.
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@giannascatchell Seriously? Most investors will refuse to sign an NDA let alone a bot.
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@giannascatchell If you company's most valuable asset is your idea and you feel the need to protect it with an NDA, you don't have a company.
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@yogert96 I agree 100%, but you're missing the point. When you submit your idea/personal information into this chatbot or any chatbot for that matter-- you should know: 1) Is the bot encrypted; 2) Deployed on an encrypted channel? 3) What are the rules re: chatbot data handling and storage? 4) who has access to that data? 5) how long is that data stored? 6) what are the rules regarding the data the bot will gather and have these rules been communicated to the user?
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@venturejakef Agreed, but I'm looking at this bot (or any chatbot for that matter) from a data security and privacy lens (e.g. what data is stored? How is that data then used?). What are the rules of engagement when I use "x bot?" #occupationalhazard
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@giannascatchell this is the reason we have to pay lawyers to draw up B.S privacy policy agreements and make everyone check the I agree box for a fun side project that is given away for free. Do you also get mad if your coffee cup doesn't say caution contents may be hot?
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To our friends on Product Hunt,
For many founders, raising money from investors is one of the most difficult and frustrating parts of starting up. When investors pass on a startup they usually aren’t direct about their reasons because they fear alienating a founder who may go on to be successful.
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@rogerdickey Cool idea and it's pretty engaging! Wish there were responses that were geared towards more enterprise products and the progress bar is a little misleading but really love the transcript/summary/advice at the end!
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@rogerdickey This is super cool. Did you code it from scratch or use a bot-creation tool?
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@rogerdickey from now on I refer all future founders who want to pitch me to my colleague and friend Sir Chatbot I
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@rogerdickey I just tried it and it works great. How long did it take you to build this bot? What NLP platform and tech stack are you using?
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Nice! Where are you guys pulling the valuation numbers? We're pre-revenue but the valuation was $72.4M.
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@elisegraham Hi Elise, we have a formula that takes the answers you give and then calculates a valuation within a range. It's obviously not an exact science and we had to simplify in some places but for $72.4M that implies that directionally you're doing a lot right!
And thanks for the positive feedback from one chat bot solution to another :).
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Really cool, it helped me think about some questions I didn't think of before! Although the result I got has a valuation way lower than we are at right now. Got: "Ok! We love your idea and would like to invest! $810k – 14% STAKE – $6.1M VALUATION"
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Maker
@alfredbaudisch Very happy to hear that. That's exactly what we hope folks we get from this.
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Edit: great tool and I like it. It's comfortable and lovelly.
Are there more people having the problem that the pdf I requested by mail seems to be damaged and can't be opened?
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I am a VC and this was still great fun to play with! Recommended to all aspiring pitchers, and even to experienced ones.
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I gave it a try, it was really good. I think that I will use it again when I will really have to raise funds.
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