{"id":261,"date":"2012-11-26T01:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-11-26T01:50:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:50:36","slug":"stanford-law-school-is-this-the-end-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/stanford-law-school-is-this-the-end-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Law School: Is This the End of the Internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an oxy moron. Stanford&#8217;s endowment fund contributes to Venture Funds. They can&#8217;t afford the Internet to End. That said I&#8217;m attending this discussion at Stanford Law School for no other reason than the pure optimist knows that pessismism (yes, I don&#8217;t know how to spell it) <em>&#8220;is a state of mind.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a graduate of Economics, I refer to this state of mind\/thinking as &#8220;animal spirits, the term John Maynard Keynes used in his 1936 book &#8216;The General Theory of Employment,\u00a0 Interest and Money&#8217; to describe emotions which influence human behavior. It&#8217;s commonly referred to as consumer confidence.<\/p>\n<p>So if consumer confidence in the Internet is down, I think the Internet isn&#8217;t dead\u00a0 but interesting to note that seed investing has grown 483% in the last 10 quarters vs 51% for Seres A deals, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/blog\/venture-capital\/seed-investments-series-a\">data from CB Insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/stanford-law-school-is-this-the-end-of-the-internet\/screen-shot-2012-11-26-at-8-08-09-am-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-263\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-11-26 at 8.08.09 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-26-at-8.08.09-AM1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"624\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an oxy moron. Stanford&#8217;s endowment fund contributes to Venture Funds. They can&#8217;t afford the Internet to End. That said I&#8217;m attending this discussion at Stanford Law School for no other reason than the pure optimist knows that pessismism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/stanford-law-school-is-this-the-end-of-the-internet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}