In The Long Run, We Are All Dead
Every start-up board is having the same conversation these last few weeks: How will this economic crisis affect us and what should we do in our own business? We had our annual investor meeting this week and warned our investors that it was going to get ugly over the next year or two (surprisingly, they indicated that some of their other VC investors had sounded positively pollyanna during this annual season). For all the reasons I described in my recent blog, "Short-Term Bear, Long-Term Bull," we remain a fan of the start-up economy in the long run. That said, CEOs need to take swift action to make sure they survive to see the long run. For as economist John Maynard Keynes observed, "In the long run, we are all dead." My partner, David Aronoff
