Comments on: Is The Venture Capital Party Over?

By: The Daily JDA · Lull 2.0

The Daily JDA · Lull 2.0 — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:23:42 +0000

[...] This has lead to an overall downturn - a downturn in innovation and not surprisingly a downturn in financial investment. We’re seeing small ideas, not big ideas. There’s a general sense of what people like [...]

By: See-ming Lee

See-ming Lee — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:43:34 +0000

What photo is that? It looks interesting.. but there’s no caption.

Much thanks in advance.

Cheers,
SML

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 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:26:37 +0000

[...] Welt – insbesondere auf das meist ohnehin knapp bemessene Kapital von Startups. So berichtete Techcrunch von einem Rückgang von 8,5 Prozent des Investitionskapitals für das erste Quartal in 2008 im [...]

By: Jimmy Noh

Jimmy Noh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:36:13 +0000

You guys sound suprised.

Lets step back a bit. VC equity does not differ from debt in that, although it may not depend on high leveraging, it depends upon an insanely inflated IPO price which has depended upon the world being awash in liquidity.

This tech crunch is not an aberration, what went before was an aberration. There is absolutely no reason to think that companies unable to turn a profit will be attractive to anyone. The only people they were attractive to in the past were a type of speculator betting on their increasing inflated value. Once these values take a dip, then the market for IPOs will simply dissappear.

Contray to the early credit crunch belief that VC will escape the storm, this is now showing that VC is in the eye of the storm. IPOs inflated values make sub-prime look like a good investment.

By: D.I.A Free News Online 2008 » Techcrunch: VC Deals In Charts (Q1 2008)—Welcome To The Slowdown

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:23:13 +0000

[...] Venture Capital Association illustrating the trends in venture capital deals last quarter that Duncan mentioned yesterday. (Click on them for a bigger image). The overall amount venture firms invested dropped [...]

By: D.I.A Free News Online 2008 » Techcrunch: VC Deals In Charts (Q1 2008)—Welcome To The Slowdown

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:23:13 +0000

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ベンチャーキャピタルの宴は終わったのか？ — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:33:44 +0000

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By: Ishmael Vindaloo

Ishmael Vindaloo — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:24:47 +0000

Come to Kyrgyzstan! Home of the new Hypersilicon Valley! Where dreams are born!

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Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:48:03 +0000

By: Loproman

Loproman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:34:53 +0000

I’m with Alex. The media is responsible for perpetuating fear and driving the economy even more downward. Ignorance is not bliss, but neither is yelling “fire” in a crowded movie theatre.

It’s sad that techrunch is now pumping VW garbage.

@Isaac Vindaloo… lol. Word.

By: VC Deals In Charts (Q1 2008)—Welcome To The Slowdown

VC Deals In Charts (Q1 2008)—Welcome To The Slowdown — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:19:51 +0000

[...] Venture Capital Association illustrating the trends in venture capital deals last quarter that Duncan mentioned yesterday. The overall amount venture firms invested dropped both year-over-year and [...]

By: Isaac Vindaloo

Isaac Vindaloo — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:42:33 +0000

So you mean there will be fewer VCs interested in my new Web 2.0 social trivia gaming video discovery widget, Qyzzzix?

By: Craig Travis

Craig Travis — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:40:06 +0000

The only thing Israel has to offer is the suicide bomber

By: Jon Wu

Jon Wu — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:50:59 +0000

israel is the next powerhouse? hahaha. i almost laughed at your joke.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:05:51 +0000

What’s the standard deviation on investments per quarter?

By: Yohay

Yohay — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:28:38 +0000

The drop isn’t dramatic, but it’s the first signal of the downturn, also in Silicon Valley.
I can easily bet that the figures will be lower in Q2.

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:56:25 +0000

I have to say maybe its a good thing, there seems to be a trend where features not products are getting funding when they shouldn’t.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:30:00 +0000

I would say that the post title is a bit misleading.
Q2 2007 has also a small decline, but the fact is that a slow economy
affects everything. Maybe it’s the lack of original ideas too.

By: European

European — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:19:41 +0000

At the same time, rumours abound that Michael Moritz is looking to raise capital to start a tech focused long/short hedge fund…

@Kevin - you have no idea what you’re talking about, go away.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:06:18 +0000

we go through these recessions every so often, sure America might be in a slump right now since we have morons in charge of the country, blame Bush for choosing his drinking buddies for all the top jobs. But eventually it’ll recover.

The problem I see is that because of this current slump America is going to lose the 10-20 years that it was SUPPOSED to dominate. After which it’ll be even harder to be competitive because of China.

By: Chris S

Chris S — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:01:55 +0000

The perspective could be very different on why the numbers are low. It definitely shows that VC are being conservative. But why? The economy could be the obvious answer. But could it also be the quality of tech companies?

In the last 6 months, we have seen the struggle companies, who rely on advertising, go through to actually create returns for VC’s investment. Think Facebook and think pretty much at least 50% of the social networking sites. It could be that VC’s now know that startups who base their whole revenue model on advertising will not make it. And there could be a possibility that in the last 6 months, VC’s may have rejected a lot of these startups thus reducing the number of investments and the amount.

This is just me thinking out loud at 11:55pm. So I could be really off.

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:57:29 +0000

The pace of early stage internet deals has slowed considerably.

By: YDrive

YDrive — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:57:00 +0000

Yes it is.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:52:50 +0000

When the boiler is getting too hot the lid pops off. We’ve seen it so many times before and we’ll see it again.

By: MistOne

MistOne — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:18:32 +0000

@ 6 - America is really dying? come now, thats a bit of a stretch. other spots may be emerging but America is not dying.