Linkblog: What AI Model Should Your Startup Use, What Your VC Can’t Do For You, and More

I’ve got a few flights next week so hopefully more original content coming then, but for now, sharing some good reads.

Which AI Model Should You Pick for Your Startup? (Tomasz Tunguz) — My former Google colleague and fellow VC provides a guide to Big Model vs Small Model (as well as a Third Way).

“A product manager today faces a key architectural question with AI : to use a small language model or a large language model?”

Where Your VC Can’t Help (Ellen Chisa) — Product manager turned founder turned VC chimes in with some of the areas that your VC can’t (or shouldn’t) help. Specifically “I can’t tell you what product or company to build,” “I can’t find your first engineer,” “I can’t help you ship,” and “I can’t make someone use your product.”

Entrepreneurial Archetypes (Jared Hecht) — The founder of GroupMe and Fundera compares and contrasts five types of entrepreneurial motivation (the serial inventor, the opportunist, the problem obsessor, the industry expert, and the academic), along with the pros/cons of each. Jared starts to get into what I think would be a great follow-up post, which is what about cofounder pairings? Which combo well together and which are too much, or too little, of a good thing.