{"id":7639,"date":"2009-01-28T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/record_low_vc_optimism.html"},"modified":"2009-01-28T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:29:14","slug":"record-low-vc-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/record-low-vc-optimism.html","title":{"rendered":"Record Low VC Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2009\/01\/28\/venture-capitalists-get-gloomier\/\">reports<\/a> that VC optimism has plummeted to an all-time low of 2.77 out of 5. In my opinion this is generally the best time to invest as valuations are low. It seems a number of these venture capitalists think we will start to rebound at the end of this year or next.<\/p>\n<p> Personally I think this last year has been so financially tumultuous that exit strategies need to be reevaluated. It will take a long while for the IPO market to come back and investor confidence may ensure the stock market stays lower than historical averages for some time.<\/p>\n<p>This means companies they invest in will have to make actual (heaven forbid) profit. They can&#8217;t rely on an easy sell to Cisco or Google at an inflated valuation. Hopefully this means more investments in products with business plans that make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that VC optimism has plummeted to an all-time low of 2.77 out of 5. In my opinion this is generally the best time to invest as valuations are low. It seems a number of these venture capitalists think we will start to rebound at the end of this year or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}