Do venture capitalists believe that there are more Facebooks and Groupons today than there were Apples and Microsofts in the 1980s?
The figure below suggests they do. The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) reported that 2,749 companies received venture capital financing in 2010. But back in 1985, the industry funded only 1,164 young businesses. While the number of venture capital backed companies is now far below the peak of 6,373 in the Internet boom year of 2000, it has been far higher in the past decade than it was in the second half of the 1980s and early to mid 1990s.
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