Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000

Re:Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000 by fsk on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @07:29PM (#9148478)

His point is that Sarbanes-Oxley killed the possibility for small-medium companies to go public (~1B market cap). With less than $1B market cap, the overhead costs of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance are a huge % of revenue.

The only way the shareholders can cash out is via a sale to a larger (idiot?) buyer (Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Yahoo).

Even worse, a lot of these companies don't really have a clear path to revenue or profitability (like Tinder).

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Re:Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000 by DownvoteMeToWin on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @07:39PM (#9148523)

Then you look at the cash reserves of the titans (Apple comes to mind) and you see it's not in circulation, which proves there are large sums of liquidity on the sidelines not investing.

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Re:Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000 by daemin on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:57AM (#9149482)

Granted a lot of the money that these Titans have is actually spread all over the world and not in the USA (or Australia).

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