Latest Additions: www.startups.finance-utopia.comsyndicate http://www.startups.finance-utopia.com/ 2008-12-05T02:12:47+01:00 text/html 2008-10-01T06:39:00+01:00 http://www.startups.finance-utopia.com/#1 "It is an odd reflection on the priorities of our society," Thiel says, "that we value finance over technological innovation." text/html 2008-09-29T14:33:00+01:00 http://www.startups.finance-utopia.com/#2 text/html 2008-09-23T05:53:00+01:00 http://www.startups.finance-utopia.com/#3 There is reasonably good evidence that firms are best-served by investing when prices are low and there is less competition for deals. It’s classic contrarianism. Well, aside from the basic truth that most people aren’t contrarians (by the definition of the word), there is another force at play here: When things are good, VC funds invest their funds as quickly as they can and go out and raise another (typically larger) fund. When things slow down, however, venture funds also slow their pace. Why? Because it’s harder for them to raise that next fund. What happens is that we are hit by an indirect consequence of problematic public markets text/html 2008-08-25T06:49:00+01:00 http://www.startups.finance-utopia.com/#4 text/html 2008-08-25T06:49:00+01:00 http://www.startups.finance-utopia.com/#5