VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. Many companies are now having to resort to tough measures in order to stay afloat, including layoffs, down rounds and tough terms from current investors.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

With over 1,000 global unicorns (and about 1.5 new unicorns created each day), startups may find themselves raising down rounds as they struggle to justify previous valuations. On a related note, this new report by OpenView on is full of benchmarks and examples of efficient PLG (product led growth).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: Yeah. So that’s how it started. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff.

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