📶 the startups preventing another Crowdstrike-like outage

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My older brother got married this weekend, and I’m still in recovery mode. Back to reality this week.

We’ve got a few stories to catch you up on from over the weekend, so let’s jump right into it.

TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
Who’s preventing the next cyber outage ❓

• These startups are trying to prevent another CrowdStrike-like outage, according to VCs (TechCrunch)

• Unpacking how Alphabet’s rumored Wiz acquisition could affect VC (TechCrunch)

• Four U.S.-Based Unicorns Joined The Board In June In The Lowest Monthly Count So Far This Year (Crunchbase)

• Old VC funds breathe new life into secondhand stakes trading (Pitchbook)

• 3 charts: Tough times for VC newcomers as larger funds dominate (Pitchbook)

• Fund-of-funds downturn? No problem, says duo of ex-Anthemis VCs (Pitchbook)

• Climate Tech Is No Longer Weathering Venture’s Slump (WSJ)

• Venture capital has an exit problem (FT)

LINKS

📡 The Social Radar—Y Combinator’s Secret Weapon: Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator) discusses how she quickly evaluates people when investing in early-stage startups.

🤔 Should I Start a Fund?: Options to consider …

🏁 VC Fund Decks That Close LPs: Signature Block offers a deck template, tips and best practices

3️⃣ Investing in Stocks—”The Rule of Three”: 70 years of statistics helps forecast money trends

🥳 What is Old is New Again: The past 18 months have seen major changes reshape the tech industry

🏄 Jack Butcher—From Couch-Surfing to Building a Million-Dollar Business: Sharath Kuruganty interviews Jack Butcher who is famously recognized creating courses on how to productize yourself and build leverage on top of it

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RECS

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POLL

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- Clay

RESULTS

Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:

Did you buy anything on Amazon for Prime Day

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yep ✅ (15)

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Nope ❌ (13)

28 Votes