It was just a matter of time. Silicon Valley, which has remained largely impervious to the increasingly global economic downturn, is starting to feel the strain, according to The New York Times [1].

It's not that housing prices are in freefall (they're not) or that people are being laid off en masse (they're not), but rather that the exit opportunities have largely dried up.

According to the Times:

During the first three months of the year, only five...