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"Small-Scale AI Operations": Here's how you begin your AI journey today - without a team, only these necessary skills and resources

startup can be fuelled with alternative resources such as training, experience, capital, and labor. Fabian Westerheide discloses useful tools and outlines potential hazards.

"Artificial Intelligence Beginnings for Small Entrepreneurs": Discover AI with minimal resources —...
"Artificial Intelligence Beginnings for Small Entrepreneurs": Discover AI with minimal resources — essential skills and tools, no team required

"Small-Scale AI Operations": Here's how you begin your AI journey today - without a team, only these necessary skills and resources

In today's digital age, the landscape of startup creation is evolving rapidly, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a pivotal role. This transformation is captured in the concept of Tiny Companies, lean, highly productive units that scale with minimal team size but maximum AI usage.

This shift is in accordance with Art 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR, ensuring data privacy and consent are upheld. The content of this article focuses on this very topic: AI democratizing skills, enabling founders to perform a wide range of tasks, from coding and designing to writing, pitching, and selling.

Fabian Westerheide, a founding partner of AI-focused venture capital investor AI.FUND, has been privy to this revolution since 2014, having invested in numerous AI companies through Asgard Capital. Westerheide is not just an investor, but also a strategic advisor in the field of AI, lending his expertise to public and private institutions, as well as conferences like the European prompt engineering and AI conference “Rise of AI” in Berlin.

Westerheide's work extends beyond the realm of business, as he collaborates with universities like TU Dresden and industry associations such as DEHOGA, focusing on ethics, transparency, and continuous qualification in AI.

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In this new era, when building a startup, the first question is no longer "Who do I need?" but "What can I do myself with AI?" This transformation is empowering founders, turning them into digital decathletes, capable of tackling a multitude of tasks with the help of AI.

Westerheide's work and insights underscore this shift, as he continues to strategically advise and collaborate in the field of AI, ensuring that this revolution continues to benefit both businesses and society as a whole.

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