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

By: how to trade currnecies

how to trade currnecies — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:07:53 +0000

Great post.

By: Innovation-Tech | TechCrunch - VC Deals In Charts (Q2 2008)

Innovation-Tech | TechCrunch - VC Deals In Charts (Q2 2008) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:07:40 +0000

[...] compared to $7.5 billion in 997 deals during the first quarter (a number that looks like it was revised upwards from the $7.1 billion the same group originally reported last April). The average deal size last quarter was $7.5 [...]

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By: The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling! the VC well is dry(ing) « WebWare, Web Hosting, Software

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:14:09 +0000

[...] convey the sentiment that ‘things aren’t half-bad’. However, in the past 90 days he has written about the VC well three times. - And all of the post seem to hint that things [...]

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VC Deals In Charts (Q2 2008)—Exits? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Exits? — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:27:02 +0000

By: Advice for a Digital Entrepreneur: Seeking Funding… « The Joe Blog

Advice for a Digital Entrepreneur: Seeking Funding… « The Joe Blog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:41 +0000

[...] stronger position on M&A and late term businesses that are showing higher prospects of return (More here). In my opinion this is a good thing as it paints a very clear picture for the business world. If [...]

By: Anthony Kuhn

Anthony Kuhn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:40:43 +0000

Man, some folks seem to be able to find something bad about almost anything. The news of an overall downward trend in VC funding is just a reflection of market insecurity and a general feeling of doubt that is gripping not only banks, but private investors like VCs. If what Wall Street sells to us little people is true, over time, things will trend upwards and we’ll all be richly rewarded in our golden years, if we make it to them.

By: | Damian Voltes

| Damian Voltes — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:15:59 +0000

[...] semana varios medios anunciaron una caída en las inversiones de capital de riesgo en el Silicon Valley. Esto se respiraba notablemente en las reuniones que tuve con algunos players [...]

By: Videoagency | My thoughts from the Valley and Video search summit

Videoagency | My thoughts from the Valley and Video search summit — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:50:51 +0000

[...] strongly impacting startups financing (check the NY Times article about and the last post from Techcrunch confirming [...]

By: Florian Bailey

Florian Bailey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:20:11 +0000

Really ? Who cares? Starting a new online company is so cheap that most traditional VCs offer more money than you need.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » グラフでみるVC投資（2008年Q1）- 減速歓迎 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:10:43 +0000

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By: The End Of The Web 2.0 Boom? « Bypassing’s Weblog

The End Of The Web 2.0 Boom? « Bypassing’s Weblog — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:27:36 +0000

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....-slowdown/ [...]

By: Asad

Asad — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:51:08 +0000

let me stick my head in the sand and go la la la la la

slow down ? no it’s cyclical. I guess it’s hard to face reality when it affects your livelihood.

By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:35:46 +0000

those are pretty graphs

By: Scabr

Scabr — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:45:26 +0000

Hope that it’s not the Great Depression

By: steve

steve — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:40:14 +0000

This article would have been damn funny if written after Q406 (same downturn then as now) or, in the case of internet-specific investments, Q207. For the latter category, which as *everyone* knows is where the real bubble is, Q108 was the second highest quarter of investment activity ever. Que slowdown?

I’m not arguing that a recession won’t impact investments. VCs are the ultimate herd. However, one quarter does not a trend make.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:39:23 +0000

the sky is falling!

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:30:05 +0000

Thanks for the article - it’s helpful for me as an entrepreneur to be aware of the trends. Just curious — what are the trends in angel funding? Do they parallel VC? It’s probably difficult to get statistics - maybe an informal sense of it would be the best that can be done…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:27:26 +0000

@13…different markets are affected differently. i.e. take financial industry in NYC…with Bear Stearns crapping out I’m going to guess that its much harder finding a job. Programming in SV on the other hand probably won’t get affected that much, since you have plenty of VC funded companies who don’t really care about recession since they aren’t making any revenue one way or another

By: Yakov

Yakov — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:24:27 +0000

VCs should look outside of the U.S. market where a major growth in Internet is happening.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:11:09 +0000

Unemployment is good for jobs sites. Bring on a recession and then some. Even a perceived recession will be good for some businesses. Every time somebody loses, somebody else wins.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:09:04 +0000

I think you have perhaps gone too negative and cynical. I tend to avoid your posts, but maybe try to write something nice about a company without your petty often negative 2 cents thrown in?

By: HAHA

HAHA — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:00:46 +0000

@12 I got 3 job offers this week. Bad economy is the elections, thats all

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:53:59 +0000

@9 Are you George Bush or John McCain? Since those idiots also think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the economy. But hey we can all take McCain’s advice: “Economy doing bad? Lost your job? SELL YOUR STUFF ON EBAY!”

not exact quote but he did say something along those lines and specifically mentioned eBay(I guess thats what you get for having Meg Whitman as one of your advisers)

By: HA

HA — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:50:31 +0000

Maybe because there is not shit for innovation in “Silly Con Vally”. VCs stopped investing in good ideas and good people.

After the first internet melt down the VC’s abandoned the regular people who had ideas and focused their monies on kids with advanced degrees from certain schools to hedge their bets. You ran through that limited group of people and you got limited response, so now they have no clue what to do.

If you are going to be a VC you have to take risk, so take a risk jerk.