Startups: Stop Waiting for the Return of 2021 and Get Real

Early-stage investments are way down in 2023. What you need to do if you want investment.

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readDec 19, 2023

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2023: A Dumpster Fire of a Year for Early-Stage Investing. Photo by Shannon Kunkle on Unsplash

Although the final totals for venture investment for the year won’t be published for a while, there’s no doubt 2023 was a painfully slow year.

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