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Silicon Valley Firms Having Cash Showers
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "'The market for high-technology start-up businesses is so intense in Silicon Valley that some companies are being showered with millions of dollars from investors -- without even asking for it,' the Wall Street Journal reports. The home-improvement website Done Right received an email from a well-known investment firm inquiring about putting cash into the company. 'Paul Ryan, Done Right's chief executive officer, says the missive wasn't sent to him or to his executives -- it landed in a general corporate email inbox,' the WSJ reports. 'Mr. Ryan wasn't put off by the impersonal plea: "We're having very good discussions with [the firm] right now," he says, declining to name the potential investor.' The Journal notes that 'pre-emptive' funding is, of course, risky, and harkens back to bubble-year investment trends."
Better to be showered in green than in gold.
Where do I sign up?
All I get is suggestions how to increase my malehood.
The only ones that deal with money come from widows of late Nigerian presidents. Must be tough to live there when every few days a prez is killed. Kinda makes me want to send our government there, for development aid.
Whether I'm concerned with their or our well being in doing so, is up to the reader.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...we're getting Bubble 2.0 as well.
It is said that economy works in 7-year cycles. Let me be the first to publicly call this "Hype 2.0"
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Dear Mr Nice VC Person,
Please send all your money to the email address on this post and we will give you lots of love
Thanks
Bob
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"Thanks, Mr. Simpson. Because of you, we're all taking golden showers! [offstage laughter] What?"
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
It wants it's hype back
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It looks like investors have come up with a new gambling strategy - bubble or quits.