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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

TechCrunch

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. Jomayra Herrera , partner, Reach Capital. When it comes to workforce learning, we believe companies are taking a different approach than they did in 2008. During the Great Recession, 1.5

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The First Generation of the Talent Software Wars

Tomasz Tunguz

Taleo and SuccessFactors grew very quickly after they entered the market, bringing novel delivery to the human capital market. Both companies demonstrated very volatile sales efficiencies, which are probably more influenced by the macro economic environment than the performance of the sales teams.

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Now, there’s some extremely capital-intensive businesses where you need buckets of money before that traction is generated, and that becomes harder to finance in downturns. Who’s going to have a harder time in this new environment? It’s just different in different economic environments, it’s never shut, so to speak.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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