But California is Hell at VC Hunting

By Paul Kedrosky · Friday, August 8, 2008 ·

Rachel Lapp: You know carpentry. Can you do anything else?
John Book: Whacking. I'm hell at whacking.

           -- Witness (1985)

To turn the data around for a second in the prior post -- the one about the seeming anomaly in Google Insights results for entrepreneurial interest in California -- there is no denying that Google says California is fascinated with VCs.

Check the following figure, and note that California is right up there -- even if interest in VCs has waned by more than half from 2004 levels.

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