Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Even the growth rates of the cloud providers have begun to decelerate as customers scrutinize spending more carefully (true for AWS & Azure, GCP revenue growth accelerated slightly). You need to plan to achieve your targets COVID and a low cost of capital were a tailwind for more technology businesses than we realized.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While it is still quite difficult to raise a funding round in the current economic environment, Riot managed to put together an interesting list of investors. But it feels like things are accelerating. It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. Image Credits: Pitchbook Boston had a steady investment growth trajectory until it dropped off (like everyone else) in 2022 as investment overall slowed in an uncertain economic environment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The pandemic has not necessarily changed our thesis but has accelerated many of its underlying trends. This move toward extension rounds illustrates a level-setting of expectations from founders around fundraising in the current economic environment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We are seeing a big acceleration in customer demand so what we want to do is scale our business significantly to be able to meet that demand,” Wolf said. “Given the tough economic environment, we wanted to make sure we have the capital to do this.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By going the debt route, Icertis avoids having to answer the tricky question of valuation in an especially challenging economic environment. Icertis was valued at $2.8 billion as of March 2021 and reportedly as high as $5 billion earlier this year, but valuations in tech are on a steep downswing.)

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