Start-Up Crowd Decidedly More Upbeat Going Into 2010
The mood seems to be brightening among Silicon Valley start-up companies.
The atmosphere last Friday night at the Crunchies, an awards show hosted by three popular and often competing tech blogs–TechCrunch, VentureBeat and GigaOm–was downright buoyant, especially compared with last year, and had hints of IPOs in the air.