Week in Review - layoffs, recoveries and an unlikely partnership

Saturday, April 11, 2020 • By Lucas Matney

Hello friends and inbox acquaintances, we made it though another week.

This week, we started to see the scale of early layoffs and small businesses and venture-backed startups rushed to apply for PPP loans. Public markets earned back some of their losses and tech companies moved into a new phase of pandemic mitigation as Apple and Google pursued a contact tracing strategy.

As i have the last few weeks, I’ve assembled a good list of links to stay updated on some of the positive news we’ve covered around research that’s ongoing and some of the steps tech companies are taking to assist.

Tech's response

Research advances

Extra Crunch analysis

Tips, tactics and cashflow strategies for startup survival during a crisis

We're in unprecedented times and are likely at the beginning of a long journey back to normal — whatever the new "normal" turns out to be.

While governments rush to get debt-relief packages in place, the high-risk, high-reward tech sector will need something different. To survive, the community requires fancy footwork, hard choices and a lot of shared pain between founders, staff, investors, suppliers and customers…