Why this awful year is good for early-stage startups

Matt Clifford is optimistic about what comes next

Hello there,

PreSeed Now is taking a partial summer hibernation for the second half of August for the simple reason that startups all tell me that they’ll be ready to talk in September because, as received wisdom has it, all VCs are on a beach until then.

That’s not strictly true, but I get why startups would prefer to talk at a time when more investors h…