Seed: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
By Keith Teare • Issue #286 • View online
Contents
- Seed: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
- Venture: Who is your competitor?
- Metaverse
- Jack Dorsey, David Marcus, and Crypto
- The Regulation of Big Tech
- Startup of the Week
- Tweet of the Week
Editorial
The week after Thanksgiving, and the week of Hanukkah (happy holidays) has been full of news but not necessarily enlightening news. Jack Dorsey left Twitter. David Marcus left Meta, Omicron became a variant and the stock markets were super volatile. Also, I spent 3 days in the first SignalRank team offsite. So, if I am not mistaken there is no overriding theme to the week.
In addition, we are not doing a video this week as Andrew Keen is overseas.
So what better than to drill down into the seed investment ecosystem?
Crunchbase News published the latest statistics on the death rate of seed-funded startups. Pitchbook published US venture startup valuation trends, Samir Kaji tweeted a chart showing the seed ecosystem compared in size to the venture and growth ecosystem.
