Some good items elaborating on topics I’ve discussed in the past week: Paul Kedrosky says that the U.S. Venture Capital industry needs to shrink – by 50%. [my latest post on this] SubsidyScope presents some cool visualizations of the TARP money and other bailouts. (ht: Marcus Peacock in the comments) [latest post] Barrons analyzes the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Venture Capital’
Linkfest
Posted in Auctions, Budget, Finance, Health, Regulation, tagged Antitrust, Arbitrage, Auction, Budget, Citigroup, Google, Health, Regulation, Search, Stock Market, TARP, Venture Capital, Warrants on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Venture Capital: Follow-Up
Posted in Finance, Internet, tagged Finance, Venture Capital on June 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal prompted me to post a short piece on the decline in venture capital. Economist Susan Woodward sent me a helpful note outlining what she sees as the key reasons for this contraction: The 2000 vintage year is going to be the worst year for venture capital [...]
Venture Capital Declining
Posted in Budget, Finance, Macroeconomics, tagged Budget, Finance, Taxes, Venture Capital on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal documents a decline in venture capitalists. Both the number of VC firms and their capital under management have declined sharply: A large number of individual VCs are also departing their firms. And, the Journal notes: The actual number of exits might be even higher than the trade [...]


