#launch-economics

#launch-economics

The temptation is to add as many features as possible, leading to 'featuritis' or feature creep that threatens to bloat and overcomplicate a product.

The ingenuity was, at times, undeniable. One production house had devised software to map out film shoots: where trucks should park, which streets to close, how many shooting days were required, and staffing needed.

"We married at the registrar's office in Dublin with just three witnesses, after spending the morning sipping Champagne and eating charcuterie on the terrace at The Shelbourne."

A sluggish labor market is pushing young people to create their own opportunities. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are ushering in a new wave of jobs and entrepreneurs.

For most companies, there's roughly a 12-month period where the business is at its peak value, and then it crashes out. The companies that capture generational returns are often the ones where someone spies that moment instead of assuming the good times will get even better.

True innovation lives where deep technical insight meets ignored, convention-bound assumptions. There's a kind of arbitrage in innovation that's easy to miss because it doesn't look like arbitrage at all. It lives in the gap between what physics allows and what institutions assume is possible. The reason it persists is that exploiting it requires developing genuine expertise in domains where most have neither the background nor the patience.

ADIN uses AI to replace the human analysts involved in venture dealmaking. Put in a startup's pitch deck, and out comes a detailed analysis of its business model and founding team, a list of diligence questions and compliance risks, an estimate of the total addressable market, and a suggested valuation. ADIN has about a dozen different agentic investors, each with a distinct persona and investing thesis.