{"id":1829,"date":"2004-01-26T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T19:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/01\/silicon-valley-on-the-comeback\/"},"modified":"2004-01-26T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T19:12:41","slug":"silicon-valley-on-the-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/silicon-valley-on-the-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley on the comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHere&#8217;s a <a title=\"Mercury News | 01\/26\/2004 | VC funding soars by 22%\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/7798152.htm\">hopeful sign for Silicon Valley techies:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Venture capitalists invested $1.66 billion in Bay Area companies last quarter &#8212; up a strong 22 percent from the $1.36 billion the quarter before, according to a survey by VentureOne and Ernst &#038; Young to be released today. It&#8217;s the first decisive upward swing in investments after a year of treading water, and is the most funding since mid-2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Along with an upsurge in general funding, there was a 30% pop in seed money, much of it in wireless, VoIP, and biotech. So the Valley continues to re-invent itself.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a hopeful sign for Silicon Valley techies: Venture capitalists invested $1.66 billion in Bay Area companies last quarter &#8212; up a strong 22 percent from the $1.36 billion the quarter before, according to a survey by VentureOne and Ernst &#038; Young to be released today. It&#8217;s the first decisive upward swing in investments after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/silicon-valley-on-the-comeback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silicon Valley on the comeback&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-tv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}