Is the Market (and Tech Scene) Rebounding?

Posted by Darren on Oct 20, 2009 • (Comments)

Recent headlines (within last 10 days):

I’m not going to pretend I’m a Wall Street analyst or an amateur Stocktwits guru, but where there is smoke, there is fire.  While I can’t prove that the market is rebounding overall, this is solid news and we are moving in the right direction.

If this continues, the M&A market will heat up and some startups and later stage companies that we’ve all come to know will be on the receiving end of some checks (and potentially some stock swaps).

Areas that should see some M&A activity:  location based mobile companies, buy-side advertising optimizers, mobile ad networks, mobile ad optimizers, and niche focused content sites.

Another sign of a potential recovery is the recent influx of headhunters, investors, company management all reaching out to find CMO’s and VPs of Marketing for their organizations and investments.  Company positioning and value proposition is critical during a warm/hot M&A market.

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  • gellert14
    Definitely agree that things are getting better. Several of those headlines only talk about earnings growth though. You can manage earnings growth through cost cutting, but that only works for so long. When we see revenue growth (sans Apple and Sandisk which are their own animals) I will firmly believe we are on the upswing.
  • fendien
    definitely good news and nice to see some action out of tech again as you mention. i also won't pretend to be a stock guru, but i think something important to consider is unemployment which is still a big problem.
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