Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 13th/14th May 2023
VC Funds See "Mass Extinction Event" For Startups In 2023: "It Will Make The Financial Crisis Look Quaint" by Tyler Durden
“An international survey of 450 startup founders in the US and Europe was conducted between August and October 2022 by research firm January Ventures, with 61% of respondents from the US and 32% from Europe. The founders who participated in the survey also were categorized by the level of funding for the startup: 48% of respondents said they had raised pre-seed funding, 32% said they had raised seed funding and 16% hadn’t started raising funding...”
What I Learned Reading 1,000 Investor Reports by Craig Dalton
“Investors have the benefit of not being involved in the day to day operations of the business. Further, they are seeing macro-trends from the sheer numbers of companies they interact with in a given month. This perspective allows them to...”
The World’s Oldest Ultramarathon Runner Is Racing against Death by Brett Popplewell
“One racer would later recall Dag’s words like so: Look down. It does not matter where your feet were yesterday or where they are going to be tomorrow. It matters where your feet are at this moment…”
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