Economic gloom hits the VC world


	Economic gloom hits the VC world

rmowery

3-19-2008 5:14 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b5276732-3ed0-4880-9da7-60380b501502/6F4762B9-B4D3-4643-AB53-D2C584D6E70A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/credit-crunch-may-lead-crisis/story.aspx?guid=%7B6062ADF5%2D287A%2D4F9C%2D9F2B%2D5B3969F2DF42%7D" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/credit-crunch-may-lead-crisis/story.aspx?guid=%7B6062ADF5%2D287A%2D4F9C%2D9F2B%2D5B3969F2DF42%7D" style="font-size: 11px;">www.marketwatch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/credit-crunch-may-lead-crisis/story.aspx?guid=%7B6062ADF5%2D287A%2D4F9C%2D9F2B%2D5B3969F2DF42%7D"><DIV class="h1" id="StoryContent_TopPageNavigation_Headline">Economic gloom hits the VC world</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/credit-crunch-may-lead-crisis/story.aspx?guid=%7B6062ADF5%2D287A%2D4F9C%2D9F2B%2D5B3969F2DF42%7D"><DIV class="h2" id="StoryContent_TopPageNavigation_Headline2">Commentary: Crunch may result in crisis for some fledgling companies</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/credit-crunch-may-lead-crisis/story.aspx?guid=%7B6062ADF5%2D287A%2D4F9C%2D9F2B%2D5B3969F2DF42%7D"><B>NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Crunch and crisis, mess and meltdown. These words have juiced up headlines over the past several months to illustrate the fallout in the credit and mortgage markets. </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/credit-crunch-may-lead-crisis/story.aspx?guid=%7B6062ADF5%2D287A%2D4F9C%2D9F2B%2D5B3969F2DF42%7D"><DIV class="p">
            Each week, the fabric of our financial system further unravels to reveal vulnerable pockets of our economy. But somehow, venture capital -- one of the most powerful growth engines of the economy and the lifeblood of high-technology advances, as the National Venture Capital Association describes it -- has managed to avoid being associated with these words.
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            Isn't this, after all, the asset class that helped hype shoddy investments eight years ago through greed, deception and irrational exuberance, only to watch a misled public suffer while the economy spun into a lengthy recession?<DIV class="contentBlock phat"><DIV><A href="http://www.venturecapital.dowjones.com/products/prod_vw_pro.html" name=""><IMG width="191" height="36" border="0" src="http://www.marketwatch.com/newsimages/news/features/venturewire_logo_191.gif" /></A></DIV></DIV>
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