Creating a Startup While in College

Source: DegreeLibrary.org

Source: DegreeLibrary.org
This was From a class I took well over a decade ago. I’m posting it here as a reminder to myself. Though the layers are interdependent, everything flows from the business one. Learn to navigate all three. Understand how the enterprise works and figure out where you can add value.
I ran the same two prompts on two different AI systems this morning. First, a haiku about artificial intelligence. Then a ten-stanza poem in iambic pentameter. A parlor trick, the kind of thing you do when you’re testing something and want a clean finish line. Qwen 3.6, running locally on my machine, took 80.9 seconds…
The system runs on one folder. Insid that folder are plain text files, organized into directories. No proprietary database. No SaaS subscription that can change its pricing or deprecate a feature. The intelligence is not stored in the files. The files are context. The intelligence is in the AI that reads them before it…
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