NoCo poised for return of venture capital dollars

A dramatic graph posted on the PricewaterhouseCoopers Web site – www.pwcmoneytree.com – tracks the descent of venture investment from the first quarter of 2000, when more than 2,000 deals were made, to the bottoming out in the first quarter of 2003, down to just 602.

The graph looks like a screaming double black diamond run off Winter Park’s Mary Jane, followed by a stretch of serious moguls that begin to show up at the low point of 2003. The bounce goes up in the second quarter of 2005 and then down again in the third, the last quarter for which…