Sequoia Capital and the Death Spiral

Been a while since the last post - too much work I guess.

Anyway this is my first post after the big crash of the American financial markets, and now the axe is coming closer and closer to the start-up world.

As a preparatory step, Sequoia Capital are rumored to have summoned their portfolio company execs and presented them with a horror-show of what's to come, and what they must do to survive. The main message has to do with the "death spiral" small companies might get into if they don't cut back, hard, and do it now - and do whatever they can to bring revenue in.

We got our hands on an exclusive version of this presentation by Sequoia (this is the real thing, no joke). Take a look (if you can't see the embedded presentations below properly, you can download them from http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dd24q57c_0d23s9vgf and http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dd24q57c_28fr7zpskd)

Part 1


Part 2