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Startup Reality: Survive or Die Quickly

December 2, 2008 by Ben Yoskovitz

The simple and painful reality for startups in this economy goes like this: Survive until things pick up, or die quickly and start over. Mark Peter Davis at DFJ Gotham makes this point in his recent post, The State of Venture: The Ugly, The Bad And The Good. In this new economic environment, access to […]

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Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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