Rut-Roh-Scooby-Doo in Chart Form: Start-Ups Start Stopping

Here’s a chart from a not-entirely-unexpected story in The Wall Street Journal today chronicling how the “deepening recession is speeding up the shakeout in Silicon Valley, forcing droves of start-ups to shut down or sell themselves at fire-sale prices.” You knew that was coming, didn’t you? And here is a not-so-lovely pair of charts to show you why.