Pressure on startups is building with IPOs and sales stalled in a funk

Re:Pressure on startups is building with IPOs and sales stal... by mfrye0 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:27PM (#14745488)

I live in SV as well.

Hard to say really. I'm just beginning to raise seed funding myself, so I'll have more perspective on that side soon. So far so good though.

On the VC side... I went to a VC panel in SF a couple weeks ago, and they all were gushing how this is the best time ever to raise money. They are all looking to invest.

There does seem to be a consensus though that investors are preferring to invest in "quality" businesses now vs chasing the Ubers and Uber for this. So potentially in line with the article talking about the levels of "uninvested cash".

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Re:Pressure on startups is building with IPOs and sales stal... by sgt101 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:14PM (#14746546)

Find me a VC panel where the VC's say anything other than "we're keen to invest in quality" and I will find you a hedgehog that likes naked skydiving.

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Re:Pressure on startups is building with IPOs and sales stal... by osullivj on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:10PM (#14747060)

Well VC are investors and money managers. If they've raised a new fund, then they need to put it to work. Capital that's just sitting there as cash on deposit isn't working, which means the VCs running it aren't doing their jobs. Q: how do VCs manage money that isn't yet invested? Put it in US Treasuries? Or the money markets with short term paper?

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Re:Pressure on startups is building with IPOs and sales stal... by sgt101 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:14PM (#14748552)

I've worked with a fund that didn't invest a bean, returned everything less expenses to investors.

This was at the nadir of the .com crash...

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