Seriously, I'm doing my best to raise angel funding or project financing in Seattle and I can't get the time of day from folks despite having a sizable contract to execute against with the target raise.

I have heard explicitly that angel, private equity and bridge financing deals have dried up.

I figured this was a pure valley bubble but if Fred is encountering the same things - why on earth can't I find even a subset of that? My network is not THAT terrible...