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Should Founders Still Raise in an Economic Downturn?

Dream It

Runway is a crucial indicator of survival that signifies your company’s future financial ability to sustain operations. If you cannot sustain operations for 18 months, cut your burn rate so you can extend your runway. Investors want to see you’re able to remain lean and adapt to changing economic circumstances.

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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener

TechCrunch

This economic environment will continue to test a lot of companies,” said Jake Fingert, managing partner, and Lionel Foster, investor, at Camber Creek. The first part of this survey covered proptech startups solving financial problems. This economic environment will continue to test a lot of companies.

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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

StartupNation

This program is preparing and connecting Metro Detroit Black-owned businesses to various funding resources to ensure their sustained success. To stay competitive in the new economic environment, small businesses must be agile and adapt to shifting consumer preferences.

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

TechCrunch

I would say the past few years have been more of an anomaly, and we are getting back to a more sustainable pace. This impacted the kinds of startups that got funding and the total capital in the market. billion in Europe thus far in 2022, 40% more than a year earlier, reports say). If yes, what is the impact of a more focused sector?

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. Who’s going to have a harder time in this new environment? It’s just different in different economic environments, it’s never shut, so to speak.

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Three Learnings for Startups after Big Tech’s Q3 Earnings Beatdown

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Public market investors are punishing Big Tech for several strategic errors that I believe offer valuable lessons for startups to learn from. Public market investors are punishing Big Tech for several strategic errors that I believe offer valuable lessons for startups to learn from. What do you think?

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Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C for e-commerce customer support

TechCrunch

Customer support startup Gorgias raises $25M. Even with all of that growth, the company is monitoring its cash burn rate in this new economic environment. The company’s goals early on were to “hire and grow in a sustainable way,” Lapeyre said.

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