[hcks]

Are these crappy, pointless startups (“a student raising 1 million on an idea”) in the room with us right now?

[freitzkriesler2]

That would be the peak of the cycle. We're at the point now where it's, "clever engineer who has domain knowledge in some niche goes out on his/her own to make something novel that could be leveraged inside an established organization but isn't worthy of being a full fledged business".

[suoduandao2]

I think the contention is that there are fewer of them now than before the recent interest rate shock.

[dartos]

“Fewer risky investments being made due to economic conditions” Is a much less attention grabbing title