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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Everybody is now payment ready.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List.