Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists. When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. lesson of using SBIC funds.),

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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. And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Venture Capital, Microwaves and the OSS Dean Watkins the leader of TWT research at Stanford’s Electronic Laboratory, left Stanford in 1957 and co-founded Watkins-Johnson (with R.H. They would be one the first venture firms to organize their firm as a partnership rather than an SBIC or public company.

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