Comments on: 70% drop in venture fundraising? http://www.k9ventures.com/2009/01/70-drop-in-venture-fundraising/ Funding and support for concept and seed stage startups. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: CoryS http://www.k9ventures.com/2009/01/70-drop-in-venture-fundraising/comment-page-1/#comment-51 CoryS Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:30:35 +0000 http://www.k9ventures.com/?p=354#comment-51 With decreasing sales, income and valuation multiples, I'd imagine that we're in for a 'hard-stop' in funding until we see what feels like a bottom and we can get some visibility into where the right growth areas will be later in the year. I'm not so certain the US consumer will see the recovery and a lot of ad-driven business models will make as much sense as other technology opportunities will. Maybe even flat isn't the new up 20%. Eek. With decreasing sales, income and valuation multiples, I’d imagine that we’re in for a ‘hard-stop’ in funding until we see what feels like a bottom and we can get some visibility into where the right growth areas will be later in the year. I’m not so certain the US consumer will see the recovery and a lot of ad-driven business models will make as much sense as other technology opportunities will.

Maybe even flat isn’t the new up 20%. Eek.

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