The market for startup investing travels a curve that, at its peaks, triggers big valuations and relatively easy money for early-stage companies. We saw the height of this curve during the tech boom in 2000, during the early part of 2008, and again during the first three quarters of 2015. At the curve’s lows, in 2001, 2009 and, perhaps now, money can dry up. During these times even growing companies with great teams and the promise of paradigm disruption can find raising a Series A to be difficult.
