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In one world, late-stage investors are reacting to tech stonk corrections by clamoring toward the early-stage investment world, forcing seed investors to go even earlier to defend ownership and potential returns. This trend was underscored by firms like Andreessen Horowitz launching a pre-seed program months after launching a $400 million seed fund. Even more, Techstars, an accelerator literally launched to help startups get off the ground, debuted a fund to back companies that are too early for its traditional programming.<\/p>\n

While all that is going on, early-stage investors are enduring a valuation correction and portfolio markdowns. Some are admitting that they\u2019re telling portfolio companies to refocus on cash conservation, profitability and discipline, not just growth.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s pretend these two vastly different worlds are in the same universe: Early-stage investors are getting more disciplined and cash rich, but at the same time, the earliest investors are going earlier. Investors are pushing founders to be lean but also green, but at the same time, offering them $10,000 to take PTO for a week and try their hand at entrepreneurship. Growth, gross margin and burn are the new top priorities for CEOs, but at the same time, venture capitalists are clamoring to offer more funds, earlier, in newly invented subcategories of early-stage investment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lot happening at once, and makes me worry about the race to the bottom \u2014 or race to the earliest stage \u2014 and its consequences. For more thoughts, read my TechCrunch+ piece: \u201cIf the earliest investors keep going earlier, what will happen?\u201d<\/p>", "protected": false }, "excerpt": { "rendered": "

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