AI Strategies for Startup Founders - Silicon Valley in Your Pocket globalizes innovation best practices through lectures and workshops (live and over Zoom), along with on-demand content, quizzes, tools, templates, checklists, calculators, and data-driven assessments. In this newly-developed eight-week program, startup founders and entrepreneurs can lay a foundation for an AI-first startup company, not only using tools to maximize productivity and achieve professional and credible results with generative AI, but also the resources needed to build a data-first business strategy that allows companies to build long-term, sustainable advantages through the data they acquire, analyze, and act upon to obtain new, better insights to maximize the customer experience. Key program components include: Interactive Market Research Workshop - The workshop focuses on startup market research: customers, competitors & partners. Participants will be presented with template prompts for generative AI tools that will be introduced for development of research. To supplement that research, they will be given other research resources that can feed the research effort. Interactive Marketing Workshop - The workshop focuses on investor relations, and business development materials. Participants will be presented with template prompts for generative AI tools that will be introduced. They will walk away with first draft materials that can be used to present to investors, customers, and partners. The program Includes marketing materials & messaging development, including logo, pitch deck, and preliminary sales materials. Data Monetization and AI - This program introduces a 5-Step Playbook for developing an AI strategy and defensive moat, including regulatory-compliant and consumer opt-in data monetization and AI tools. This program will help startups to systematically identify and evaluate different data monetization opportunities. Activities range from exploring possible data sourcing options, all the way to prioritizing market opportunities.