{"id":103599,"date":"2020-03-11T01:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/as-the-start-up-boom-deflates-tech-is-humbled"},"modified":"2020-03-11T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:23:38","slug":"as-the-start-up-boom-deflates-tech-is-humbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/as-the-start-up-boom-deflates-tech-is-humbled","title":{"rendered":"As the Start-Up Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-the-start-up-boom-deflates-tech-is-humbled2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pullback will probably not be as severe as the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, when dozens of unprofitable internet firms failed. Today, venture capitalists and other investors still have large pools of money to invest. And certain types of start-ups \u2014 like those that make tech for businesses and that typically have steady sales \u2014 continue raising large sums of money.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Layoffs. Shutdowns. Uncertainty. After a decade of prosperity, many hot young companies are facing a reckoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pullback will probably not be as severe as the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, when dozens of unprofitable internet firms failed. Today, venture capitalists and other investors still have large pools of money to invest. And certain types of start-ups \u2014 like those that make tech for businesses and that typically have steady [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}