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Belly up startups

Year is ending in another 1 month. A rough year for many startups winding off Which startups do you think will wind off in next, 6 months? Which startup should be saved and get VC fundings for continuing operations as Dhandha mode

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Zzzzz

Accenture

10 months ago

Survival required only till series B. Salary leke nikal lo. Networth banao n futo. Neither founder nor VC do care about it now a days. Series C tak chala gaya to kya he kehne!!!
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MightyLazyGeekStar

Stealth

10 months ago

Winter is here for quite sometime. Anyone which has to pivot will wind up soon
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Tech8

Stealth

10 months ago

Team retention is very important when you want to pivot, cant lose your resources and say am pivoting
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Gojek

10 months ago

Crazy to think that this year was the graveyard of many Startups
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Stealth

10 months ago

Adding a recency bias of Zirp funding, many edtech, fintech, creator economy startups valuation crashed 90% or got belly up. Byju is just a poster boy among unicorns. With funding dryness startups cant rely to burn big vc capital. As valuation hits a ceiling it is Dhanda only which needs sustainable cashflows and not continously rely on funding
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Stealth

7 months ago

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I remember Meesho, Khatabook, Myntra and Scaler do this. Anyone up there?

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by Olauber

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Next coming months you will see many startups shutting down

As long as EBITDA positive and profitable then company will survive! Unit economics needs to be focused! #newnormal #startups

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number of deadpooled startups, or companies in India that shutdown or were pushed to the brink of a shutdown, stood at 34,848 in 2023

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/from-gomechanic-to-zestmoney-why-thousands-of-startups-shutdown-in-2023-11953691.html