[johnloeber]

This is a fluff piece based mostly on rumour, opinion, and anecdata. There's little substantive evidence and reasoning.

What I found particularly egregious was the use of a line graph that showed VC investment generally rising to $50.8 billion in 2014 and then dipping to $47.2 billion in 2015. An explanatory sentence below reads "U.S. start-ups raised $47.2 billion in the first three quarters of 2015, following $50.8 billion in all of 2014, by far the most since 2000, according to the National Venture Capital Association." There's no dip thus far. If we project through the fourth quarter of 2015, we can expect a total of about $63 billion in 2015. This is no dip, but yet another record-breaking year.

Sure, the record-breaking years are bound to eventually come to an end, but that isn't news. The baseline of vc investment activity has been raised a great deal, probably permanently.