Throughout the year we’ve been reaching out to you — our readers — to get your take on some of the most important issues of the day. You’ve been radically honest, funny, opened our eyes to key problems in startup Europe and offered some brilliant advice to others.
Analysis
December 28, 2022
Being ghosted by VCs to manager horror stories: Sifted readers’ experience of startup Europe in 2022
We look back over the key stats from our reader surveys this year
6 min read
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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