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2020 Startup Themes
Hindsight is 2020
I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.
See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing a business in 2023, and in that article I referenced this very same seismic shift in startup dynamics — a shift that, no surprise, began all the way back with the pandemic in 2020.
That’s the tricky t... See more
I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.
See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing a business in 2023, and in that article I referenced this very same seismic shift in startup dynamics — a shift that, no surprise, began all the way back with the pandemic in 2020.
That’s the tricky t... See more
Joe Procopio • Starting a Business Looks Drastically Different in 2024
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How startups changed since 2020:
-Consumer fell out of love with technology
-Business & Venture OverIndexed on AI
-Money went from Tight to Scared
What’s happening now:
-self founded, funded & reliant
-Profitable out of the gate
-solving problems and building with slower burn rate
-Innovating strategically alongside technical innovation
How do generalists help? Taking a broad approach gets you further faster
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In sum, there are 5 core markets (Devsumer, Real Estate, AI hardware, Transportation and Logistics, Crypto) and 2 emerging ones (Legal, Defense) that seem quite exciting to watch in 2019. While there is a potential darkening macro economic environment, software continues to eat the world and to remake it.
Elad Gil • Interesting Markets: 2019 Edition
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The startup ecosystem is experiencing a series of changes that can't be ignored:- cambrian explosion of funding availability- more value is being created on private markets- going from zero to one is no longer a dark art - ie more talented operators, more infrastructure to build quickly and cheaplyChange is coming to the VC ecosystem. Who will win:... See more
The Three-Body Problem: Finding the New Stable Points in Venture Capital
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10 lessons from the past year
- There has to be value: product market fit, there must be fundamental value for users
- Web3 and crypto are not consumer friendly: people want problems addressed regardless of labels or terminology — " Crypto will scale when the technology becomes the invisible enabler of what consumer actually care about "
- Incentive desig
Katelyn Donnelly • Web3: It's all still happening!
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The Changing Venture Landscape. The World Around Us Is Being Disrupted… | by Mark Suster | Sep, 2021 | Both Sides of the Table
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