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Investors are quickly waking from the unicorn dream to the reality of a start-up world where only the ‘cockroaches’ will survive, StartCon manager Cheryl Mack told Dynamic Business.
Held at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse on 26 to 27 November, the 2016
conference features an international line-up including Elena Verna (Survey Monkey), Nate Moch (Zillow), Annabell Satterfield (BitTorrent) and Sean Ellis (Growth Hackers).
The theme this year is a bold one: “Bonfire of the unicorns”.
According to Mack, it’s a striking image that serves as a warning: over-valued unicor instead, tech start-ups need to embrace an approach that lets them survive and thrive in the tough economic times ahead.
“Anyone who’s paid attention to the news knows Silicon Valley has a $585 billion-dollar ‘unicorn’ problem – the tech start-ups with valuations exceeding one billion dollars are struggling to find exits,” she said.
“The reality is, in the event that a unicorn is able to exit, it won’t be anywhere near their most recent valuation. That’s the problem with these hyped-up valuations: companies can’t possibly retain them in the long-run, which makes them unsustainable. If a unicorn has to hold a down round and goes public at a lower valuation, it hurts the founders, investors and employees.
“Marc Benioff and countless other investors have warned the age of the unicorns is over, and the smart venture capitalists are writing off unicorns. They’re looking to invest in companies that are more sustainable, that are going to be able to survive in any environment, and that are able to get to cash-flow quickly without requiring a ton of capital to grow. On top of investors pulling back on investing in new companies, there’s uncertainty in the global stock market. The next six to twelve months will be tough for start-ups.”
“A majority of the world’s unicorns are in the United States where the dream is dying fastest. This represents a huge opportunity for Australian start-ups in tech and other industries, which are a little behind Silicon Valley. They can look to the States and learn from the mistakes of those unicorns and focus on revenue growth, funding that growth without relying on capital and creating a sustainable business model that can scale quickly.
These are the start-ups that are going to survive. VCs are calling these start-ups ‘cockroaches’ because cockroaches are tough, they can survive and thrive in any environment – even the apocalypse. Today’s entrepreneurs should want their start-ups to resemble cockroaches, not unicorns.”
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A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
蟑螂在被砍头之后还能活几个星期，最后死也是饿死；
This doesn't necessarily mean a cockroach burger with grub fries, but it could mean using insect protein to replace soya bean protein in packaged foods.
这并不一定就是要向大众提供蟑螂汉堡外加幼虫薯条，但可以在包装食品中使用昆虫蛋白代替大豆蛋白。
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
蟑螂没有脑袋可以活9天，最后是饿死的。
And again, Kafka invites us to imagine waking up into a body of a cockroach and we can.
这里,卡夫卡再次带领我们去想象,一觉醒来却变成一只甲虫的场景,而我们是可以想象到的
Okay if it's 'something you can eat,' okay well that makes a cockroach food.
好的,可以食用就是食品,那蟑螂就是食品
And then your hostess walks in with the turkey in a tray, and says, "I killed the last cockroach."
然后主人用托盘托了一只火鸡进来说,我刚刚把最后一只蟑螂拍死了“
Genghis had six legs and moved like a cockroach, using 34 sensors and two microprocessors to wander around and avoid obstacles.
Molony, known in the group as Belves, is pictured holding a Folgers Instant Coffee jar, which contained a cockroach the guys had decided to keep as a pet.
Fans of the emotional Sonny from I-Robot, or the depressed and bored Marvin from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, may be disappointed to hear that they are more likely to find a cockroach composing a symphony or writing a poem than a robot.
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