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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

Feld Thoughts

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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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

” 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. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. 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. In response, one of the many U.S.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

Again Stanford technology would solve these challenges. Frustrated with Kern’s lack of interest in investing in more technology companies, Tommy Davis would go on to found one of Silicon Valley’s first VC firms with Arthur Rock, creating Davis and Rock, founded in 1961. This was a two-pronged challenge: the U.S.