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On the face of it, this just appears to be a possible end of the VC bubble. I highly doubt that this means much for startups that are built solely with founders
by bovermyer 11y ago
On the face of it, this just appears to be a possible end of the VC bubble. I highly doubt that this means much for startups that are built solely with founders' capital.
- hyperbovine 11y agoAll four of them...
- forgetsusername 11y ago>I highly doubt that this means much for startups that are built solely with founders' capital. You need to distinguish between startups (people starting their own business), and "startups" (VC funded technology companies of a certain model). I'm sure the former won't be nearly as affected as the latter.
- castell 11y agoWhat if many of your customers are VC backed startups?
- timrpeterson 11y agoThat was like Yahoo in 2000. It's a problem.
- rwmj 11y agoDepends if you're selling advertising services, software or other shovels which are mainly purchased by VC-funded companies.
- te_chris 11y agoWhat about the multitude of startups whose main customers are other funded startups? And the agencies who are similar. Could get hairy.
- axx 11y agoThat's kind of what the dotcom bubble was. Startups with only startups as their customers. All juggling fantasy money around until some investors wanted their money back.
- signa11 11y ago> Startups with only startups as their customers. it was not just that there were startups which were feeding off of other startups. even big-name established companies e.g. sun, csco etc. were pretty deeply involved.
- ams6110 11y agoA lot of it was actually startups with no customers to speak of at all.
- AngrySkillzz 11y agoYeah, that's the part that I'm concerned about. All the companies providing development tools, SaaS, process management, education/training, staffing, etc. for tech startups are done for if investment collapses.