INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Gone were the days of easy nine-figure rounds, expensive growth, negative unit economics and the rest of the excess that Startupland has
enjoyed over the past half-decade.Inside this purported sentiment shift, I presumed, was a decrease in optimism; surely venture capitalists
I expected that startups would achieve more conservative proximate valuations in the post-WeWork world, as their leaders would aim to raise
a bit less, and a bit more conservatively, and investors would be less starry-eyed in the prices they were willing to pay for startup
equity.That was all wrong, it turns out
A recent reportfrom Fenwick and West, a legal firm that works with technology companies, paints a picture that is the complete opposite of
Boston is having a good start to the year, for example
SaaS is also looking healthy from a venture capital perspective
can spot anywhere where the markets are behaving like the chastened children that we were told had taken over.Up and to the right
