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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Outbound used to be painstaking and manual. The end of the cycle. In B2B, we’re seeing the same phenomenon.

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What do you look for an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? And other Q&A

Andrew Chen

Or technology differentiation! It’s been said (and written) that we are kind of in a funky consumer internet winter, compared to 2007 when we had the Facebook platform and the iOS/Android platforms and so on. Stay outbound. What is your advice for startup CEOs? What do you look for in an investment? Or big market!

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What do you look for an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? And other Q&A

Andrew Chen

Or technology differentiation! It’s been said (and written) that we are kind of in a funky consumer internet winter, compared to 2007 when we had the Facebook platform and the iOS/Android platforms and so on. Stay outbound. What is your advice for startup CEOs? What do you look for in an investment? Or big market!