By design, venture-backed startups are about sticking a plate of spaghetti to a wall to look for the sticky bits. There are few sure tells of what startups are

By design, venture-backed startups are about sticking a plate of spaghetti to a wall to look for the sticky bits. There are few sure tells of what startups are “worth saving” until they’re already quite successful. Assuming that the SVB unwinding is more than a hiccup in cash availability, what will determine who gets saved will mostly come down to affinity and luck. Promise and value are a sort of first pass filter, but startups are just plain noisy and chaotic field.