Advice and commentary on how to become a trader on a desk at an investment bank.

Venture funds shell out millions based on the brainpower of a startup which occupies a tiny cubicle in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. But it seems the good times are over, and the current is flowing the other way now, with workers deserting Silicon Valley startups and moving to big companies who can easily withstand a downturn, or another crash.