Given the nature of my new business, I slowed down a bit on the elliptical this morning when NPR launched into a report on the impact Bear Stearns is having on venture capital in Silicon Valley.
Toward the end, the reporter asks if the downturn will stifle innovation in Silicon Valley:
“Entrepreneurs who are inside large companies but their personality is more entrepreneurial and they see their company slowing down, that can spur them to say, ‘It’s time for me to go out and start something on my own, cause I’m bored,'” responded venture capitalist David Epstein.
Hmm.
(BTW: Just noticed NPR is using “preroll ads pimping their sponsors in the audio player on their site … not sure if this is new or just new to me, but I found it interesting.)