The market for high-technology start-up businesses is so intense in Silicon Valley that some companies are being showered with millions of dollars from investors — without even asking for it.It is a phenomenon called “pre-emptive financing,” and it has become more common in the past several months.
The question is whether venture capitalists are moving too quickly, funding risky, untested start-up businesses — just as they did during the heady, and ultimately unsustainable, technology-stock boom of 1999 and 2000
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