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Is Silicon Valley in trouble?

September 5th, 2008

A scary video interview about Silicon Valley and I can not fully disagree: the IT industry is maturing so innnovation may be less relevant than it has been.The VC industry is in trouble though it will not admit it. Risk taking is disappearing. “Engineers are gun shy of start-ups”. What a terrible message.

Of course, there is hope: this is not new… Silicon Valley Fever is a 1984 book which already described the troubles start-ups and engineers could experience. People always claimed there were too few deals for too much money.

Whatever, enjoy and comment if you wish…

PS: thanks to Andre M.  for drawing this video to my attention!

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