WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. Alomar led startups through the dot-com bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008 and will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits and how to identify the proof points founding teams must define before their next raise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

So then I thought, let me give it a shot and see if I can build something, He spent several months developing what would become ZincSearch. The largest incumbent in this space is Elastic, the makers of ElasticSearch, a public company founded in 2012. As investors reached out, Sharma realized he was onto something.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

But following the rapid development of its ecosystem (desktop and then mobile MP3 players, Torrent and then download and streaming services), MP3s rapidly became a better option than CDs for the majority of the population, rendering the previous paradigm obsolete. most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

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