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IPO market is still dead. VC companies are all stuck in PE purgatory. AI was a bright spark but now Deepseek is killing that dream too.
this is something i dont understand because P/E's are so high, why so few IPOs?
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Runway is not the issue, imho the issue is skills and having a idea that can be monetized. Hosting is pretty cheap, we have insanely good tools to automate tedious parts of the process and the time investment isn't huge as well.
"Making money is easy, just go out there and make money" is effectively what you're saying. It takes time to find and execute these ideas. Yes the tech can be cheap, maybe even building it can be cheap, but the time to grow your customer & client base from scratch can be highly varied. If it were really this easy, you'd have every person on IndieHackers having ditched their jobs already because their ideas have taken…