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What Will Happen In 2023

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been engaged in as inflation continues to ease and the economy continues to cool. Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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What Happened In 2023

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I ended my What Will Happen In 2023 with this advice: Buckle up, hang tough, and be smart. That was a big miss as 2023 will most certainly be remembered as the year that AI went mainstream with consumers, thanks to Chat GPT and other consumer interfaces to large AI models. This is the first of these two posts. More on that tomorrow.

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Grow Fast, Breakeven, or Die: How Moderate Cuts Will Kill Startups in 2023

This is going to be BIG.

If you don’t realize that, just imagine you’re a VC fund with some dry powder in the second half of 2023. I’m very worried about any company that has moderate growth plans for 2023 that expects to get another round of financing based on that result. Everyone else—why would they bother?

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Dispatches from the Road: Q4 2023

Revolution

What we did: Revolution Ventures Managing Partner, Tige Savage , Associate, Anant Pai , and Rise of the Rest VP, James Barlia , were all in attendance at 2023’s Cintrifuse Summit, which focused on “homegrown hustle,” inspiring innovation, and retaining talent in the greater Cincinnati startup ecosystem. Where we went: Cincinnati, OH?

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Dispatches from the Road: Q3 2023

Revolution

What we did: Rise of the Rest Associate, Isabelle Styslinger , went west for Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association ’s Emerging VC Summit, where she networked, knowledge shared, and explored Bozeman’s great outdoors with dozens of investors whose geographic focus spans the Mountain West. Where we went: Bozeman, MT?

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EO’s Most Popular Inc. Posts: A Lookback at 2023

Entrepreneurs' Organization

With a thirst for learning and a willingness to share lessons learned and insider experiences, EO members published 47 informative posts on EO’s Inc.com channel in 2023. Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. Tal shared what he learned from his first-ever round of raising startup capital.

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Fintech predictions and opportunities for 2023

TechCrunch

Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. Higher cost of capital for the debt they lend. Fintech predictions and opportunities for 2023 by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.