Great time for real entrepreneurs starting real companies in organic ways, not shysters looking for $30M seed for their app so they can pay themselves and their buddies comfortable salaries while they work 5 hours/day in a trendy WeWork in SoHo.
This is both true and false - makes it easier to hire talent and attract users/customers, but harder to raise capital. Works out great if you're running as a small business and don't need to raise capital.
Yup Office Space, office equipment will be cheaper. Vendors with less sales will fight to be competitive. VC's won't tolerate superfluous startups and it would be a great time to bootstrap your own.
Why is that? There is less money in circulation, so less chance you'll get any. Are they making wiser choices? So if you're company is a wise choice you'll get funding?
I also don't think the slow down is necessarily a bad thing. It's not that VCs aren't interested. They're just much more cautious about funding companies that end up being sustainable and viable. I think after all these unicorns, VCs have finally been brought back down to earth and are looking in the long term.