There’s a story about AI and startups in Louisville Business First, but the analogy used in describing the functionality involved doesn’t quite work:

When it comes to Louisville startups, Kela Ivonye has worked with his share.

As an Entrepreneur in Residence both at Amplify and at the University of Louisville (at different times), Ivonye has had many sit-down conversations and fielded questions with local founders.

In particular, he would talk to many founders who had an idea, but did not have the resources to create a minimum viable product (MVP) to show possible investors — and needed to raise money to create the MVP.

“That kind of just became some kind of chicken-and-egg problem,” said Ivonye, who in 2019 had an exit when Luxer One acquired MailHaven, a smart mailbox startup that he had co-founded.

Given how quickly a user can now create an MVP using AI tools, Ivoyne started AI Prep, a multi-week in-person educational program that will be held at Story Louisville at 828 E. Market St. in the NuLu neighborhood.

“It occurred to me that this could be one of the solutions to that chicken-and-egg problem. … It’s really empowering founders to be able to build their MVP,” he said.

Let’s just clear this up on the poultry front. The egg came first. A non-chicken laid a mutant egg, which resulted in the first chicken.

Don’t believe me?

As for the UofL AI project: I have no idea what they’re trying to say, but the poultry debate should be off the table. But I did use the Luxer One service when I lived in San Francisco, and it was always reliable.