I'm a journalist, not an economist, although these days my role is probably a bit in between the two. (I have the luxury of digging a lot deeper than your typic

I'm a journalist, not an economist, although these days my role is probably a bit in between the two. (I have the luxury of digging a lot deeper than your typical online journalist.) This research is still new, so there's no clear consensus yet. But so far the reception has been positive. The paper tries to get at a core question that's bedeviled economics recently: How is it possible that startups could be declining, given everything happening in SV? This is probably the most sophisticated answer so far. But it doesn't mean it's 100% correct.