{"id":15831,"date":"2020-06-08T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2020-06-10T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:29:36","slug":"when-do-startups-begin-to-lose-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/when-do-startups-begin-to-lose-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"When do startups begin to lose traction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">50% do not get to Round 2. 90% are gone by Round 3. In a report, CBInsights analyzed 1100 startups ( that raised seed rounds in 2008-2010) to answer exactly that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights :<br>Odds of becoming a Unicorn is at 1%. 12 companies reached that status in 2017-18 including hyped companies like Uber and AirBnB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 companies existed for over $500Mn including &#8211; instagram, Zendesk and Twilio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30% see funded companies exited through an IPO or M&amp;A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/where-in-the-funding-lifecycle-do-startups-begin-to-lose-traction\/\">March 4th 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50% do not get to Round 2. 90% are gone by Round 3. In a report, CBInsights analyzed 1100 startups ( that raised seed rounds in 2008-2010) to answer exactly that question.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/when-do-startups-begin-to-lose-traction\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,83],"tags":[70,81],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-startup","tag-alwayslearning","tag-startups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-47l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}