Equity Finance SBIR Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.). Lessons Learned.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.). Lessons Learned.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. The early clusters occurred by happenstance of geography or history. Seed Funding (Innofund).
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. The early clusters occurred by happenstance of geography or history. Seed Funding (Innofund).
David Teten
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. I emphasize my focus here is organizations which are backing for-profit companies and do not take equity.
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