No wonder bidding was sluggish. Such high-end Silicon Valley parties are becoming rarer in these parsimonious days. At Home canceled their plans for lavish holiday blasts. Others dramatically scaled down. For a while the Web of Finance networking group was holding its parties in a bar, but now they've moved to host Adrian Scott's loft.
Guests bring raw vegetables, chips and cheap wine.
One of those with less money was David Huffman. Much of what's left has gone into his start-up, a Web collaboration service named Linkify. Wasting money is out now. Cheap is in. So is due diligence.