News Pick – Silicon Valley’s Next Phase is Focusing on Viable Business Models Over Rapid Growth – FP
June 30, 2016 – “We lived through 2015 with venture subsidy — you could get cheap rides, cheap food, cheap everything because the VCs were funding it,” says Sean Behr, chief executive of Zirx. “Not any more.” There has been a marked shift in Silicon Valley’s investment climate. The region’s VC-funded innovation machine has always judged […]
News Pick – The New Boom in Tech – WSJ
November 22, 2015 – “$571 billion. The value of tech deals announced this year world-wide, surpassing the highest full-year level on record. This year’s surge in technology deal-making is doing much to erase the dot-com boom from the record books.” Read full article at WSJ
News Pick – Fear of Losing Out Drives Deal Boom – WSJ
June 30, 2015 “Companies are merging at a pace unseen in nearly a decade. Halfway through the year, about $2.15 trillion in M&A deals or offers have been announced globally, according to Dealogic. That puts 2015 on pace to challenge the biggest year on record, 2007, when companies inked deals worth $4.3 trillion.” Read the full […]
