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Fri 03 Mar 2010Avoiding the start-up 'valley of death'
The National Digital Research Centre helps start-ups bring their ideas to market, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON
THE “VALLEY of death” is littered with the carcasses of start-up technology companies that could not bridge the gap between early seed funding and larger-scale venture funding. The term, coined in Silicon Valley, is harsh recognition that, in between the time when an innovative idea blossoms and early work is done to develop it and the point at which a company might hope for significant funding to take it to market, support to develop the product or service dries up.
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