Sign of the tech bubble? Financiers jumping to tech companies?

The chemists and high school teachers turned ninja hax0r can't be far off. Someone please warn me so I can short XLK.

To me, that's just reallocating resources. Any efficient system of capitalism will see that happening.

However IPO's with unreasonable valuations, and investments greater than what's needed is a pretty good sign of bubble. So i'll let linkedin, and facebook make me scared of a bubble. Not to mention the startup Color.

It's the bursting of the financial sector bubble actually: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/finsize.pdf.

I believe Joshua Schachter started as a quant at Morgan Stanley.

I hope we don't lose high school teachers to tech companies. The world needs them much more as teachers.

What kind of work will you be doing? I'm in a similar situation (M&A side though), and I'm not sure what kind of value I could bring to a tech firm without the coding skills that are needed in a early stage startup.

Simplest answer: a tech deal team - Google, for example, has one internally.

Abstracted a little, capital markets start-ups. You could add value by hybridising Silicon Valley and New York.

Go any further, e.g. to a Pinterest, and I don't know. Maybe there is a business development role? I'd guess you'd be throwing away a lot of your existing value at that point.

Call people. Most are very willing to help.

Big tech companies are buying up startups left and right. I am guessing they have some ex-M&A guys on staff (Note: The OP said that he was moving to tech, not necessarily a startup)

Forecasting, pricing and marketing analytics roles are all good transitions. Lots of excel still necessary - all you really need to learn is some SQL and maybe R/SAS.