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What are the chances that VCs are planting these sort of stories in order to try to scare startups into accepting deals with terms that are more advantageous to
by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
What are the chances that VCs are planting these sort of stories in order to try to scare startups into accepting deals with terms that are more advantageous to the VCs? Exactly one week ago, there was a story printed in the New York Times that read very similarly to this one.
- rohern 15y agoI do not think it is VC inspired, but this article does take a strange tone. "glut of Web start-ups"? "A fundamental mismatch is now starting to show: While scores of Web companies were founded in recent years, there isn't enough venture capital to keep all of them going indefinitely." Duh? Hasn't this been true since the dawn of time? What on earth is this observation?
- sleight42 15y agoAlmost as though the journalist has some sort of bone to pick? Perhaps.
- pg 15y agoI wouldn't say they are consciously planting them. But when people are interviewed by reporters they often say that something they want to happen is already happening.