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» update market news XII» Blog Archive » nugg.ad blog — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:38:15 +0000

[...] web 2.0 deals in 2007 are slowing down but ad network start-up funding is hot.Example: Federated Media 30 M [...]

By: another bubble - Web 2.0 vom Aussterben bedroht? « Life is too short for

another bubble - Web 2.0 vom Aussterben bedroht? « Life is too short for — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:17:03 +0000

[...] in 2008 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr auf dem amerikanischen Markt. Wurden im vergangenen Jahr also noch Rekordwerte erreicht so müssen viele Firmen dieses Jahr den Gürtel enger schnallen oder sogar ganz [...]

By: A small risk » Blog Archive » Bubble 2.0?

A small risk » Blog Archive » Bubble 2.0? — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:11:26 +0000

[...] Web2.0, large investments and larger exits are we in the midst of another tech bubble? There was an interesting post on techcrunch today showing how much investment has been made in tech startups over the last 7 years. It shows a [...]

By: Local Business Reviews

Local Business Reviews — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:37:53 +0000

Well, this year I am looking for Finance for my Web 2.0 start up which can be seen at http://www.thebusinesshours.co.uk Let me know if I will be able to get few hundered grand

By: Abdullah Bakhach

Abdullah Bakhach — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:48:19 +0000

I can’t help but sense another .com bubble bursting. I can’t believe $1.34 billion was poured into web 2.0 sites to begin with. Where is the actual value in these websites? That people know I’m having turkey for dinner? I’m eagerly awaiting for the market to go beyond this social networking craze.

I’m not saying web 2.0 are bad in principle (hey my own site is based on it!), I’m just saying that hysterical application of it to almost exclusively social networking sites is disturbing at best.

By: 113.com

113.com — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:12:06 +0000

Guess nobody was partying like 1999…

By: KwangErn

KwangErn — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:41:38 +0000

Investment charts are great. But what’s more interesting is to see its returns and/or profits.

By: Yasser

Yasser — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:40:46 +0000

Why is Facebook listed twice?

By: Jim Nguyen

Jim Nguyen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:36:30 +0000

Helpful and interesting information, thanks!

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:14:50 +0000

@8 Owen, I never said it was in decline. I said “if … and now is in decline”. But you can call it whatever you want, including slow growth. At the end is the same, less deals. Which is OK and part of the industry and market fluctuations.

By: JosefVirek

JosefVirek — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:57:47 +0000

2 reasons:

1) Alot of startups prefer angel investors.

2) Starting a company these days is *alot* cheaper and easier to bootstrap, negating (or delaying) the need for VC mulah.

This is actually a good thing

By: Kaiyzen

Kaiyzen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:50:24 +0000

Tried to back up you guys up with the other day when people were complaining about posting news late in the MS Silverlight posting, but I liked this story better two days ago when Mr. Ha over at Venture Beat posted this story, the largetst deals chart, and the reference to the impact removing Facebooks investment would make.

http://venturebeat.com/2008/03.....s-peaking/

Give him some link love Eric

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:31:24 +0000

What would interest me, if anyone has the information, is information on small startups - the local 2.0 market?

By: The Drama 2.0 Show

The Drama 2.0 Show — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:04:05 +0000

Web 2.0 “Investment Boom May Be Peaking”…

Common sense is back in vogue. From the increasing questions about the Facebook hype to the realization the Old Media isn’t dying to the growing consumer and advertiser dissatsifaction with user-generated content, it’s clear that common sen…

By: Owen Byrne

Owen Byrne — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:17:04 +0000

The nice thing is that this isn’t decline (as @dale and @Fabian seem to think) it’s slowing growth.

And that’s mostly about the law of large numbers.

By: Brig

Brig — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:30:16 +0000

I’d like to see something like this for mergers & acquisitions of web 2.0 companies.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:27:10 +0000

Erick:

You asked if venture deals peeked in 2007? My answer is two fold:

1) Who cares. If the VC market experienced a peek and now is in decline, in a few years there will be yet another peek twice as high. It comes and goes in cycles and these cycles are tied to the overall economy.

2) When the market is bullish, then the VC market is also bullish. The real question here is: Which one is bullish first.

No surprise on either answer.

By: diystartupnews.com

diystartupnews.com — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:09:41 +0000

I would love to see the flipped figures versus these figures. There have been some big buys also.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:26:46 +0000

The “odds” are in the favor of the companies doing the investing more often then not, otherwise, they wouldn’t be continually expanding their holdings. What I find ironic about all this is the worst the news seems to be “out there” on the financial front, the more straws the big guys are tying to grasps to diversify their risk, of which there is no lack in today’s marketplace.

Jon
http://dreamclue.com … get the message!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:15:10 +0000

Some more interesting data at http://www.pedatacenter.com that compliments the VentureOne data.

By: ViralKing

ViralKing — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:33 +0000

Right, and I have a feeling that this year might be the peek, see a downturn in 09 compared with 08. Statement made based on nothing other then ‘gut feel’

By: dale

dale — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:32:28 +0000

everything has its peaks and valleys.