Re:Tech faces hour of reckoning as fundraising drops, layoff...
by noobermin on Monday January 18, 2016 @04:45PM
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I am not a business man, but I am a developing scientist who's trained his graph reading bullshit detector. "Flat" is relative to the scale of the graph, and when you have a maximum on the graph (the 2001 bubble) that dominates, and changes that are not on the scale of the peak look like they are "flat".
To fix this, change the time period from after 2002 to remove the offending peak. Then, you see pretty much a rise from the 2009 recession onward with wiggles in the number of deals. Of course, the only issue is as a non-business man, I don't know if 300 deals per quarter over ~7 years is a significant increase or not. Also, I don't know what is considered "normal" as I assume the minimum at 2009 is probably below the norm, so for all I know, we could be hovering just above 0. Still, there is definitely an upward trend there at least for the aggregate category (if that is what we are discussing).
To fix this, change the time period from after 2002 to remove the offending peak. Then, you see pretty much a rise from the 2009 recession onward with wiggles in the number of deals. Of course, the only issue is as a non-business man, I don't know if 300 deals per quarter over ~7 years is a significant increase or not. Also, I don't know what is considered "normal" as I assume the minimum at 2009 is probably below the norm, so for all I know, we could be hovering just above 0. Still, there is definitely an upward trend there at least for the aggregate category (if that is what we are discussing).
EDIT: 2016-2009 = 7, I can't count