God forbid anyone think of building a company that could eventually go public instead of flipping it quickly. - Cyndy
what is silly glemak? I am just sharing... It's a fact. It will get tougher and tougher to raise money in this environment - Loic Le Meur
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Yet M&A is still happening. Google/Digg, Brocade/Foundry. Are those not exits? - Louis Gray
loic: there are many ways to exit & always will be exit opts, that won't change, what will change is whether the silliness of astronomical exits of recent past will happen, which it won't - whoever on the vc panel said that was just being melodramatic and silly - btw, how can the future be fact ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
sorry, as for tough to raise money, agreed - business models have needed to be solid for awhile now (except for those who are still doing crazy investments like in podshow) but raising & exits are two different sides of the coin no? - mike "glemak" dunn
this doesn't sound too problematic if you're starting a business today - a 3-5 year holding period for investments shouldn't break anybody's IRR model. could make things tougher if you've got a portfolio chock full of series c and d companies, though - Charles Hudson
Sad, but I'm reading many articles predicting a recession longer and worse than what we had in 2001. To think it won't affect tech is just naive. - Jason Kaneshiro
A big portion of high-risk capital is going to greentech. Aslong as there's a Google and a Microsoft (and a FB, etc), exits will be an option. But I think there's a glut of 'social media' investments that are finding out traffic doesn't always equal value. - Cains
