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The startup studio model is hard to crack. While there are plenty that are always cropping up and dying off (welcome to the world of entrepreneurship), there are just as many that have managed to stick around for the long haul, and others newer ones that are looking very promising.

Pre-PMF is the best part of building a startup when you are doing GTM. It's a time of unrestricted experimentation where failures are just part of the process. Unlike tech giants like Google, your early-stage startup won't be making headlines if something goes wrong, giving you the freedom to try, fail, and learn without much scrutiny.

In 2011, we began eFounders with Quentin Nickmans. The concept was to create several companies in parallel through a studio model. At that time, everything was to be invented; we had neither the means nor the team. We started with Mention, Mailjet, and Textmaster during the first two years. This allowed us to learn a great deal, such as our level of involvement, the type of entrepreneurs we wanted to partner with, and the method to be implemented. By 2015, we had launched a total of 5 companies, just over one per year on average.

It’s impossible to pin down what a good product development process looks like. Depending on the type of product, the origin of the idea, your resources, and countless other factors, every journey to a great MVP can look vastly different. And if we did try to pinpoint it, it would turn into a thesis rather than a blog article.

The difference between SaaS with and without AI is simple: the latter enables people to do things quicker and better, while the former can enable people to do things much quicker, and far better.

Web3, a technology akin to AI in its transformative potential, promises to reshape the way we interact with the digital world. But amidst the buzz surrounding cryptocurrencies and NFTs, the true essence of Web3 often remains obscured behind a veil of complexity and misconceptions. By talking to web3 founders, the aim of this series is to break down the barriers surrounding the technology, by shining a light on its capacity to address real-world challenges and the consequential entrepreneurial opportunities. We hope to bridge the gap between the pioneers of the crypto universe and the wider world.