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I will be interested to see a study one day that shows the exact moment silicon valley investors decided enough was enough, and stopped investing in ventures th
by Overtonwindow 11y ago
I will be interested to see a study one day that shows the exact moment silicon valley investors decided enough was enough, and stopped investing in ventures that failed to generate returns.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoThat was around the year 2000. People eventually stopped joking about how stupid "eyeballs" are as a metric and forgot all about the late 90s. Now they make the same mistake because, well, take your pick: -Mobile phones aren't desktops -Big data -This time it's different(TM)
- im3w1l 11y ago-Cheap money with nowhere to go.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y ago-Someone you envy made lots of money on an investment you turned down and now you feel compelled to catch up.
- bduerst 11y agoProbably because since 2000, billion dollar advertising companies have capitalized on eyeballs.
- onion2k 11y agoYou're making an assumption that less investment in SV and SF means less investment overall. It could be, and very likely is, the case that investors will simply look outside of hubs once they get too expensive, especially if the founders you need can't afford to come to you.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoSomewhere around December 11th, 2015: http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/FDFD:IND http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/FDFD:IND