47. Michael Trimmel - HalloSofia - Building AI startups 101

Today on the show I am talking to Michael Trimmel, head of AI at HalloSofia about his journey as an entrepreneur, building AI Startups.

This episode will be most valuable to people that interested in creating an AI startup or at the beginning of this journey.

Michael will tell his personal startup story, describing his troubles and learnings on the way. Its particular important to him to highlighting that one can get into AI without having a traditional computer science background.

We will be talking on how to get started as an Entrepreneur, what makes a good founding team, how to build a support network, how to build first prototypes, how to benefit from accelerator program and what funding options there are in Austria.

I hope this interview will provide you with useful information and tips to get you started on your own journey.

# TOC

00:00:00 Beginning

00:02:31 Guest Introduction

00:07:17 Co-Founder of Cortecs GmbH

00:11:48 Head of AI at HelloSofia

00:20:22 What you need to build a startup

00:23:48 The founding team

00:31:03 The Business Network

00:37:36 Incubators & Accelerators

00:43:56 Funding

00:49:18 Navigating the AI Hype

# Sponsors

Quantics: Supply Chain Planning for the new normal - the never normal - https://quantics.io/

Belichberg GmbH: We do digital transformations as your innovation partner - https://belichberg.com/

# References

Michael Trimml - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-trimmel-91aa3a152/

Hallo Sofia - https://www.hallosophia.com/

Startup House - https://www.startuphouse.at/

Austrian Startups - https://austrianstartups.com/

Austrian Startups - ELP - https://austrianstartups.com/elp/

Hummel Accelerator - https://hummelnest.net/

INITS - https://www.inits.at/

FFG - https://www.ffg.at/