Opinion

April 23, 2020

Now is the best time to launch a tech startup

Adoption of digital services is at an all-time high and great talent is available — so founders, get building.


Roxanne Varza

5 min read

Startup campus Station F in Paris

Fiascos always present new opportunities for entrepreneurs. The dotcom bubble — which happened exactly 20 years ago — killed off companies like Pets.com but strengthened the likes of Amazon and eBay. Airbnb, Spotify, Uber, Dropbox, Adyen, Evernote and more all grew out of the economic downturn of 2008 (as many a venture capitalist likes to mention). 

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