Sep. 27, 2012 at 9:56pm with 92 notes
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theatlantic: Facebook Has Officially Popped the Start-Up Bubble Following Facebook’s IPO we declared a bubble burst and now we’re seeing that hit the start-up ecosystem as investor money becomes harder to find. ”The frothy bubble is over,” an analyst told The Wall Street Journal’s Pui Wing Tam and Amir Efrati. And that defrothing has happened in large part because of Facebook’s performance over the last three months. It’s not just the social network’s stock that has failed to boom in the months following its public offering, fledgling tech companies are now having a hard time raising money, as a result. Rather than just fork over the bucks to an up-and-coming app, investors have a new found curiosity in potential profitability and revenue. See: investors want to put money into companies that will bring mega riches. Before, users were enough to feed those fantasies. But Facebook’s wimpy stock has since crushed that dream, making it harder for these other social media start-ups to convince investors to buy in.  Read more. [Image: Reuters] This article ends with the following sentence: “Like Instagram, getting bought out by a big tech company may offer more hope than trying to raise money the old fashioned VC way, at this point.”… which is so wrongheaded on so many levels I can’t even parse it.

theatlantic:

Facebook Has Officially Popped the Start-Up Bubble

Following Facebook’s IPO we declared a bubble burst and now we’re seeing that hit the start-up ecosystem as investor money becomes harder to find. ”The frothy bubble is over,” an analyst told The Wall Street Journal’s Pui Wing Tam and Amir Efrati. And that defrothing has happened in large part because of Facebook’s performance over the last three months. It’s not just the social network’s stock that has failed to boom in the months following its public offering, fledgling tech companies are now having a hard time raising money, as a result. Rather than just fork over the bucks to an up-and-coming app, investors have a new found curiosity in potential profitability and revenue. See: investors want to put money into companies that will bring mega riches. Before, users were enough to feed those fantasies. But Facebook’s wimpy stock has since crushed that dream, making it harder for these other social media start-ups to convince investors to buy in. 

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

This article ends with the following sentence: “Like Instagram, getting bought out by a big tech company may offer more hope than trying to raise money the old fashioned VC way, at this point.”

… which is so wrongheaded on so many levels I can’t even parse it.

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    Revenue, kids. Revenue.
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    This article ends with the following sentence: “Like Instagram, getting bought out by a big tech company may offer more...
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    heeeyyy it finally happened.
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    Zuckster was certainly fitting as the Man of the Decade! or whatever the fuck it was.
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    Facebook Has Officially Popped the Start-Up Bubble Read more. [Image: Reuters] (via theatlantic)
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    Isn’t the tech industry all we had left that we had any hope in? America can’t hang all its hopes on Apple and Microsoft...
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