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Denouement

View from Seed

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. 2020 and Beyond? We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

IPO 202
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Denouement

Agile VC

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. 2020 and Beyond? We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

IPO 100
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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

They found that while in 1958, the average lifespan of a company listed on the S&P 500 was sixty-one years, in 2011 it was less than eighteen. I acquired my first large-company clients right before the financial crisis in 2008. In 2015, McKinsey did a study of average corporate lifespans on the S&P 500.