Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

They hire local employees or family. Any government that starts public financing entrepreneurship better have a plan to get out of it by building a private VC industry. lesson of using SBIC funds.), They are anyone who runs his/her own business. They work as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Most are barely profitable.

Government 335

Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. Kim Folson, Co-Founder, Founders First Capital, observed, “RBI financing is more intimate than traditional equity. Potentially could use SBIC financing. Potentially harder to recruit employees.

Revenue 60

Revenue SBIC Cofounder Venture Capital 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation. In response, one of the many U.S. government would invest three (up to $300,000.)

Silicon Valley 125

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 125