The Birth of the New

By Keith Teare • Issue #311 • View online

Another week and another glut of writing seeking to understand what has changed in the economy, the public markets, and the startup and venture capital world. As the old world dies the only important question is, what is being born?

When the old world dies, a new one is born

Contents

• The Birth of the New
• Essays of the Week
• Startup of the Week
• Tweet of the Week

Editorial

In the last four weeks, the top 100 venture investors scored by SignalRank’s GPRank algorithm, invested in 181 funding rounds at the Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A stages.

Here is the query from the excellent Crunchbase:

Why point this out? As you can see from the articles curated in this week’s newsletter, there is a strong sense of loss, readjustment and fear that is dominating thinking and decision making. There is some very excellent writing embracing what has changed and how fundamental that change is likely to be. Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, the always excellent Pete Flint from NFX, and my wife Gené from Crunchbase News are all…