Capital Markets Matter by Joseph W. Bartlett
The financial crisis facing promising young high-tech startup companies today is sadly not the sole result of the current credit crisis but rather extends back over the past ten years to the dotcom stock market meltdown in 2000, which both shocked the financial markets and closed the window for initial public offerings to all but a handful of innovative new companies. The current credit crunch only exacerbates the financial problems faced by startups in our capital markets today.