Next venture

After making some nice money from his stock options, a former Google employee has left the company to start a new venture... Familiar story in the Valley except that it concerns the former Chef of Google who is opening a restaurant near Stanford. Read about it here.

More seriously, it's easier now for start-ups to raise money from VCs who are loaded with cash. They are all saying that they learnt their lessons from the last market crash... We'll see!