This Week in Startups: Reimagining reading with VR featuring Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf | E1772
Jason Calacanis 7/6/23 - Episode Page
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Today’s show:
Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf joins Jason to discuss Sol Reader’s design (1:24), how wearable e-readers will create more focused readers (28:06) the ways in which devices reshape the human brain (24:37), and much more!
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Check Out Sol Reader: https://solreader.com/
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Time stamps:
(00:00) Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf joins Jason
(4:00) Ben presents the prototype and demos Sol Reader
(8:28) LLM and future integrations for Sol Reader
(12:40) .Tech Domains - Apply to get your startup featured on This Week in Startups at https://startups.tech/jason
(14:04) Overcoming the challenges of a hardware startup
(17:59) Sol Reader’s business model
(21:09) Audio integration and transcript features
(23:22) Optimizing Sol Reader's first product launch
(26:38) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at https://crowdbotics.com/twist
(28:06) The origin of the wearable e-reader concept and efforts to diminish screen time
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(40:05) Initial product testers' feedback
(44:59) Apple’s Vision Pro headset
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