Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. Austin has Dell.

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David Teten

JANUARY 2, 2020

Best Practices of Private Equity Funds in Origination ” at the Wells Fargo SBIC Symposium, an event for their portfolio funds. I focused on using technology for sourcing. The post New video: Private equity origination best practices appeared first on David Teten. I’ve posted below the video and slide deck.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) lesson of using SBIC funds.),

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Terman arranged for a research assistantship to bring his former student, David Packard, back from a job at General Electric in New York to collaborate with William Hewlett, another of Terman’s graduate students.

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