After hibernating for the last year, Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are beginning to stir.
Technology financiers raised about $14 billion to finance new companies in 2009, a sharp drop from $36 billion in 2007. But as the economic freeze begins to thaw, investors are once again writing checks to entrepreneurs.
Some of the ideas will become the big public companies of the future, following in the footsteps of one-time start-ups like Google, Cisco Systems and Amazon.com. Many more will fail because they are too early, late or unoriginal.
Original Article: Following Venture Capital for Signs of Technology to Come - NYTimes.com
