Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸 We won the last 250 years. We invented, built, and learnt. Building the intelligence layer for American manufacturing to win the next 250. Neuramill.co

can any startup/vc folks out 🙏 help me w the latest funding-announcement/PR playbook ? any dm/advice appreciated! (we just closed 60m seed/incubation round for our AI legal services rollup and super excited abt it - ~25m arr, ~100% gr, ~130% nRR and growing/acquiring arr quickly hopefully 50-100m EOY, stanford CS rockstar leading it etc) – but I’m not really part of the startup community so not sure on playbook to get as much attention as possible at announcement next week I know PE pr outreach / press releases etc well, but basic question is what else should we be doing here (I don’t know like HN or reddit or send cold email to @tbpn or that sort of thing?) And I’m happy to spend some money on it !! Kyle

Since June 12, we’ve been working closely with the US government to restore access to Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5. Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organizations that operate and defend critical infrastructure. We’re restoring access for these organizations quickly, and we’re continuing to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again.

Just this week, two different founders in my portfolio had PJs sent for them by VCs. Founders love it but it’s kinda weird.

good morning san francisco

Always Be Launching pre-AI, a launch was a single moment in time. you'd spend months prepping the team, polishing product, lining up creators, wordsmithing PR etc. that playbook stopped working a while ago the best founders today launch in micro-beats: - beat 1: we formed a team and joined a16z Speedrun! - beat 2: announcing our company, website of what we do and why - beat 3: product v1 release / preview, video of how it works - beats 4-6: customer case study, product update, key hire etc think of launch as a series of small beats that compound. after every beat - you gather feedback, learn, and iterate. michael truell famously launched Cursor 8 times before it took off another heuristic - if you're an early-stage startup and a month or two has gone by with no public launch beat, you might be skewing too conservative on GTM

.@nickbruhman might actually get out of this one unscathed... Introducing our next in-game advertising partners @Backpack & @atomikgrowth!

The Monaco Plane: Economics and Impact. If you've been in SF over the last 10 days, you've likely seen the Monaco Plane flying around. I'm receiving countless messages asking about how expensive it is and if it's working. So here are those answers:

We've generated 117M views for launch videos, and we're giving our full playbook away. This Friday in SF we're hosting Founder Office Hours, where we'll help you with your launch strategy. Like @ZargaryanArthur said, we're not here to sell you anything. The goal is to meet cool people building dope shit. Book a (free) 1-1 session here: calendly.com/d/d3kf-9yz-gcb/…

Got into YC? Stop making launch videos. Stop tweeting hype. Stop chasing investors. None of that matters. Talk to your users. Fly out and meet them. Fix their problems. Everything else is noise.