companies or as like a match.com or a tinder for comapnies. >> reporter: as a matchmaker, mullins hasto work with. according to the online tracker crunchbase, 19,500 companies received venture capital funding last year. >> it's clear we're in the middle of a boom, some people might call it a bubble and what that means for startups in particular is a lot of vc's are willing to fund ten companies with the idea that one of them is twitter. >> reporter: but that still leaves nine companies that won't be the next twitter. are they doomed to become startup zombies? and if we are in a bubble, how much longer can that go on? >> every two to three years, there's an investment cycle. >> reporter: steve gerbsman is a crisis management expert for businesses in need of an exit strategy. his forecast isn't so bright. >> you had the investment cycle starting in 2011 and 2012, we haven't had the bust yet but it's coming because every two and half to three years after the investment cycle our business gets good. >> reporter: meanwhile, entrepreneurs will continue to take big swings and a cottage indus

<along but mullins.ames: the shoreline is okayed only wet weather that were picking up renault along the all to my pass right now. that's what we're seeing a strong track 4 at the moment a wider view shows that is mostly to our north. this is continuing to work its way across the base of that will be a pattern as we had throughout the morning commute. here's future cast for. we will walk you through how the rain may let up as you work your way through the afternoon. they're scattered showers around 8:00 it's a couple of hours until 10. even if you see things and make his body by noontime it began to send out about 3:00 a sort that- or so. it's by your meaning commute. this is the whether that will be out of there. temperatures this afternoon on the cool side with the upper 60s to mid-70s for the most of the bay area. <

this thing will develop into its own storm as a drum to the mullins and starts forming in the high plainsf colorado. >> could be some pretty sizable rainfall downstate. a closer look at where they will be late frida how that area explodes on friday and in the morning hours. >> '60s are forecast today. los '60s tomorrow. same thing on thursday. >> wind turn off the lake as the storm began to influence the weather after that. >> chilliest october open in four years. 14 degrees cooler than october's opening six days a year ago. >> refund the 12 earliest snow years and look at what followed. after the snow fall came there were an average of seven additional seven days. it still could warm up. the winter that followed produced an average of 30 in. of snowfall. the actual amounts of spending from 16-64 in.. >> this winter may be cool if this trend continues. 64 is the forecast on wednesday and thursday. 50 friday and went off with a lake.with that wind off the lake. >> having had a week last week. >> wait for them. they are not a forecast yet. >> thank you so much for joining us today. l justic

brody mullins is a reporter for "the wall street journal" based in d.c., and in that position he coversiness, lobbying and campaign finance. he started his career at the national journal's congress daily and later at roll call where he covered congress and lobbying. he has twice won the everett mckinley dirksen award for distinguished reporting on congress. he also won the george polk award and received an award from the national press club for best political reporter under the age of 33. so i want to -- >> back when i was under -- >> not eligible. [laughter] >> well, that's still a great way to start your career. i'm going to start with peter. so you have great expertise in money and politics. what do you see as the political impact of billionaires, and has their influence changed over time? >> well, billionaires' influence has changed just because when you start looking at the history of money and politics, there weren't any billionaires yet. you have the inflation stack to have. -- factor. but there's always been big money in politics. that's a given in america. one popular example i