Why are they less and less investment by startups in internet retail, internet software and social/ platform software ?
The first reason is the omnipresence of the big companies like google, amazon, Facebook that create a barrier for the new compagnie to enter on their markets.
The second reason is still inked to those big companies , and economist names it « the kill zone » , the kill zone is a process use by those companies , they look for rising starts up and buy thm. They are buying them , at first to promote them , but in reality , they take their knowledge and make it their. This way , the big company have now innovation and promote it to the world while the start up is getting forgotten.
The last reason is because the big companies are hiring the engineer of the startups, this time again the startups is killed by the big company .