Down Market
topic on 1 show · 3 statements across 3 episodes
3 statements about Down Market, every show
Healthcare founders trap themselves by staying down-market too long
“The trap that a lot of, I think healthcare founders fall into is that they stay down market. They don't figure out, they don't like Time their Yolo shot to go up market at the right moment.”
Akkina: Down markets weed out uncommitted emerging VC fund managers
“During times like this, when it's much harder to raise capital, you see which new firms really want it badly, and the ones who don't are disappearing, right? So I think that's one thing. And of course, look, at least for some period of time while we're in a do…”
Seibert: Down markets enable higher startup talent density than bull markets
“I actually love sort of down markets because I think in the very hot markets, it's too easy to raise capital and you peel off all the sort of like fantastic second engineers or product managers or designers or whoever they might be, and they go get funding and…”