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发帖数: 2314 | 1 风险投资难道不是风险很大的么？ 这也要政府“bailout”？
Sooner or Later 所有行业都需要政府帮忙bailout，社会主义就真的在美国实现了。
呵呵。
Venture Funding Drops Off Cliff; Should Gov't Incentivize Innovation?
Posted Apr 20, 2009 02:30pm EDT by Sarah Lacy in Investing,
Venture Capital, M and A, IPOs, Recession
Related: ^IXIC
The venture capital numbers are out for the first quarter, and they’re
not good. VCs pumped 50% less money into startups than they did one year
ago. At $3.9 billion, it was the lowest total the industry has seen
since 1998. Yes, that means it was worse than anything seen in the years
after the seminal dot-com bust. Information technology fell to its
lowest levels since 1997, with just $1.68 billion in deals, and clean
tech fell by a whopping 73% to just $117 million.
All this despite the fact that most venture investors will tell you a
recession is the best time to build a company.
This is why famed Silicon Valley entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, CEO of
LinkedIn, is proposing something pretty dramatic for a bailout-weary
nation: Having the government offer incentives to venture capitalists.
He first penned the idea in an opinion piece in the Washington Post that
was partially a response to a piece Thomas Friedman wrote, arguing that
VCs should be given government loans and other support to jump-start the
economy, too. Many industry folks, including myself, pointed out one
main problem with Friedman’s plan: VCs already have billions sitting in
their coffers un-invested.
Hoffman doesn’t dispute the point, but says government help is needed to
encourage VCs to invest the money in uncertain times. And, he argues,
it’s not about taxpayers indirectly backing the next Google, it’s about
backing mid-sized profitable companies that may never reach a $1 billion
market cap, but will create jobs.
Hoffman knows a thing or two about investing having funded Facebook, Six
Apart, Digg, and other hot Silicon Valley names—many of which were
started during the last downturn. Our full debate is on the clip; let us
know which side you agree with in the comments! | s*******e
发帖数: 4188 | 2 VCs don't need bailout.
“VCs pumped 50% less money into startups than they did one year ago.”
because“VCs already have billions sitting in their coffers un-invested” |
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