Web 2.0 bubble bursting: Peerflix cuts workforce, carnage mounting elsewhere
This year has become the “show-me” year. Internet start-ups showing no traction are getting shut down, or trimmed — abandoned by once wide-eyed investors. The Web 2.0 bubble is bursting, but...
View ArticleIs Silicon Valley in a new bubble? (poll)
The New York Times ran a page one story today about how Silicon Valley appears to be in the midst of a new bubble, driven by the enthusiasm that venture capitalists and angels have for social...
View ArticleQuest Venture Partners: Current VC investing not "irrational"
The hand-wringing continues over whether or not there is a venture capital bubble forming around hot new Silicon Valley startups. But the increased VC investing in tech is more likely the consequence...
View ArticleVC True Ventures co-founder: There is no bubble, period
There is no bubble forming around Silicon Valley or tech startups because white-hot companies like Twitter and Facebook are able to show they have fundamental value and are capable of making money,...
View ArticleTim Draper doesn't think we're in a tech investment bubble yet
Tim Draper, the gregarious founder and managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, says there isn’t reason to fear a big bubble in the technology sector just yet. Draper said so...
View ArticleSilicon Valley is abuzz with bubble and recovery stories — too soon?
The bulls are back in Silicon Valley in a variety of ways. Let’s hope reports of the recovery are true and that the optimism doesn’t get overheated too fast and turn into a bubble of the dot-com era’s...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs: Ignore all the talk of bubbles
(Editor’s note: Brad Feld is an early stage investor and co-founder of Foundry Group. This story originally appeared on his blog.) “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” –...
View ArticleWhat if it’s 1996, not 1999?
(Editor’s note: Jeff Bussgang is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. This column originally appeared on his blog Seeing Both Sides.) In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and...
View ArticleLinkedIn shares still high in second day of trading
If LinkedIn represents a tech bubble, that bubble remained unpopped during the professional networking company’s second day of public trading. The company’s stock closed at $93.09 a share, just...
View ArticleSequoia defends its infamous "RIP Good Times" presentation
Onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today, Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia Capital, looked back at one of the firms’ more controversial moments — the presentation that it gave to its...
View ArticleWeek in review: how frustrated are PlayStation Network users about downtime?
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Latest rumor on iPhone 5: it will have a curved glass cover — Apple’s...
View ArticleIs there a tech bubble? Don’t count on VCs for a straight answer
“I don’t think we are in a bubble,” said mega-VC Marc Andreessen onstage today during a Wired conference on business. Well, no duh — of course a venture capitalist whose livelihood depends on...
View ArticleDylan’s Desk: On eve of Facebook IPO, Silicon Valley’s gap with the rest of...
Sign up for our weekly newsletters, and you’ll get the latest insights from our Dylan's Desk and DeanBeat columns before they’re published on VentureBeat. People often say Silicon Valley is not like...
View ArticleThe DeanBeat: The right strategies for the social casino gaming bubble
How do you operate when you’re inside a speculative bubble? That’s an important question to consider when you look at all of the companies in the social casino gaming and online gambling business....
View ArticleWith Dropbox valued at $8B, meet high tech’s new bubble: Cloud storage
Ase / ShutterstockCloud storage companies are sucking up investor money at a furious rate as they gird themselves to compete. And naturally, not all of them will emerge victorious. Last night, the New...
View ArticleHow to benefit from a tech bubble without getting burned
Above: King's Bubble Witch Saga mobile game, which it will keep open.Image Credit: KingHow can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th...
View ArticleYo, that stupidly simple messaging app, now has a million users
Image Credit: Screen shot/Yo Yo, a viral messaging app that arose from an April Fools joke, now has over one million users. Last week, news broke that the ridiculously simple app had pulled in $1.2...
View ArticleDylan’s Desk: Getting ready for the bubble to burst … eventually
Image Credit: Jeff Kubina/Flickr Venture capital has always been a cyclical business. Boom times are followed by busts, and the busts are inevitably (we hope) followed by new booms. So as soon as the...
View ArticleIntel’s chief VC: Why he’s bullish on the tech economy, yet welcomes an...
Above: Intel Capital president Arvind Sodhani (left) introduces a series of 16 CEOs of companies Intel has backed, at the company's Global Summit, November, 2014.Image Credit: Dylan...
View ArticleThe most asked question of 2014: Are we in a bubble?
GUEST:Any way you cut it, 2014 has been a remarkable year for the innovation economy. The pace of disruption and growth today is faster than any time I’ve seen in Silicon Valley Bank’s 30-year history....
View ArticleWhat bubble? The U.S. IPO market has completely collapsed so far this year
Staring ever deeper into its own navel, Silicon Valley just can’t stop talking about whether it’s in a bubble. If you’re on the ground there, it can certainly seem that way. There’s the endless parades...
View ArticleThe private equity bubble
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Forget the Web 2.0 bubble, which is in the process of bursting. Start worrying about the private equity bubble instead. Our...
View ArticleHey, entrepreneurs, we’re living in a bubble
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. GUEST: No, not that kind of bubble. The bubble we’re living in is actually much more dangerous than the classic tech bubbles...
View ArticleThis BART real estate map shows how costly it will be to follow your Silicon...
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Moving to the bright lights of Silicon Valley is the dream of every entrepreneur around the world who believes they can be the...
View ArticleThe bot bubble and what you can do about it
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. GUEST: Chatbots, the latest innovative add-on for instant messaging apps, are the current darlings of commerce. By integrating...
View ArticleDear San Francisco: Office space data says your tech bubble is not popping...
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. FEATURE: For anyone counting the days until the tech boom that has transformed San Francisco over the past decade comes to an...
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