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A top Sequoia partner's email to CEOs during the dot-com bust has important lessons for startups facing the coronavirus and its effects 20 years later

after many of those dot-com companies failed to make money, laid off thousands of workers, or shut down shortly after they started trading on the public markets.

"While it's safe to say entrepreneurs have had negotiating leverage," Leone said, "with the 'down draft' in the market, the VC community will start exercising their leverage."The worsening market conditions also made going public a less favorable outcome for venture-backed startups. An acquisition by a competitor affords a startup the funding to keep going, new customers, and an increase in market share, Leone wrote to entrepreneurs.The down draft in the stock market sends us some obvious 'signals' and we can't help but mention them.

 

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