Startup Investment Hits 3.5 Year Low in December, Q1 M&A Slowest Since 1995

Re:Startup Investment Hits 3.5 Year Low in December, Q1 M&A ... by mindcrime on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:00PM (#5489484)

Even more concerning, on Monday the National Venture Capital Association reported...

But is it concerning? These numbers, in isolation, aren't necessarily an indicator of a Bad Thing. Maybe the cost of founding a startup has dropped to the point that fewer startups are choosing the venture capital route? Maybe more people are bootstrapping, crowd-funding, and funding organic growth from customer revenue?

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Re:Startup Investment Hits 3.5 Year Low in December, Q1 M&A ... by joshavant on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:50PM (#5489806)

I like the optimism, however, you'd expect the same factors would be at play as you move backwards into the past (while funding amounts continued to rise).

I don't think any major event happened around Jul-Sept 2012 (about where it started to trail off) that precipitated significantly cheaper cost of founding a startup.

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Re:Startup Investment Hits 3.5 Year Low in December, Q1 M&A ... by adanto6840 on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @09:40PM (#5490444)

I don't have a very strong opinion or thought one way or another here really, but perhaps it just became more mainstream "knowledge" (right or wrong), or more common / trendy even, to not look for VC money quite as aggressively...

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