Winter is coming?
This pearltree presents several ressources to answer a quite open question: will the financial meltdown have any impact on the tech & startup ecosystem? Aug 26
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November 4, 2011 There has been over the past 18 months a Cambrian explosion of startup life, many incubated by angels and seed funds. And now the process of natural selection is beginning again. I got back from the Valley Thursday and what I gathered from the people there is the same as what I’ve heard here: that many seed companies are having a hard time raising money.
The Shitake Hits the Fan | Redfin Corporate Blog
OK, hands up, who's truly surprised by the drop in the stock markets or the postponed tech IPO's or even the upcoming slowdown in venture financing? No really, who is surprised? If you said yes, stick your head back in the sand. It's all warm and cuddly there and if that's your thing, enjoy. For the rest of you, let's get back to business.
You Can't Ever Have Enough Hype Until You Have Too Much Hype - Babbling VC
Lessons Learned: Winter is coming
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. We're in summer.
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
As those examples suggest, a recession may not be such a bad time to start a startup. I'm not claiming it's a particularly good time either. The truth is more boring: the state of the economy doesn't matter much either way. If we've learned one thing from funding so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, certainly, but as a predictor of success it's rounding error compared to the founders.
[This blog post was originally published on All Things Digital on March 17, 2010.] Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending.
The Case for the Fat Startup // ben's blog
Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?
This article was originally published on TechCrunch . Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. Why is that? Who knows. But probably because as a group we travel a lot.
What happened in yesterday’s market underlines the deep bind we now find ourselves in. We have politically precluded new revenues and have shifted our attention to deficit reduction at a time when we would need to invest. We have already had two rounds of quantitative easing and interest rates are at record lows so there is precious little that the Fed can do. At this point a double dip recession is extremely likely with the potential of the second dip being nastier than the first one. Not surprisingly, Treasuries rallied yesterday as investors happily ignored the S&P downgrade and chose the emergency exit from the equity markets instead.