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Are we in a start-up bubble?
- veb 16y agoI'd say yes... Look at all the crazy acquisitions recently. The offer from Google to buy Path, Groupon trying to buy UseHipster... Facebook's $50 billion valuation. If it's not a small bubble, I don't know what the hell it is. I mean, if it's talent acquisition, then why on earth would you pay $100 million to a company, why not give the person you -really- want, a bonus of $5 million to leave and join you?
- salemh 16y agoBesides the FB / Groupon examples of larger firms and very large valuations, in regards to startups, what would a "burst" look like? The loss of $100M "talent acquisition" buyouts, VC's go turtle, incubators...bust? I don't see the later happening. Thoughts on the "burst"?
- siavosh 16y agoI think the biggest risk is a lot of these smaller start ups start getting astronomical investment amounts and pushed to go IPO pre-maturely. Mix in a crap load of bad ideas that get dumb-money going the IPO route, and things start looking like the late 90's again.
- webbruce 16y agoDefinitely a yes. It's called the Business Cycle, everything goes up and down, we're on our way up pretty quickly.
- rms 16y agoWe aren't in a startup bubble, but we're in an investment capital bubble. There is way more investment in startups than is strictly rational. It's a good time to be an entrepreneur.