crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

I have written occasionally about legislation in Congress and how it impacts small businesses and startups, and three proposed laws have recently caught my attention. Congress makes a lot of noise about the importance of small businesses to our society, but their track record over the past few years has been abysmal, at best.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

I woke up to an article in Daily Camera today titled Small Business Administration trying to bring SBIC funds to Colorado. I’m an investor in over 40 VC funds around the world (mostly in the US) and three of them are SBIC funds. Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Who’s an entrepreneur? There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Small Business Association Loans. Ravi Bhagavan, Managing Director, BRG Capital Advisors, said, “A low-cost and often convenient form of capital for small businesses is SBA loans, which are guaranteed by the Small Business Administration. SBA loans are available through SBA-approved banks and SBIC funds.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

I explore the reasons for this in Why Are Revenue-Based Investors Investing in So Many Women & Diverse Entrepreneurs? . With RBI there’s a very different relationship between the entrepreneur and the capital provider. There’s no need to redline the business and put everything at risk to be a unicorn.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Act in 1958 guaranteed that for every dollar a bank or financial institution invested in a new company, the U.S. Like all government programs, the SBIC was fond of paperwork, but it began to formalize, professionalize and standardize the way investors evaluated risk.

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