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What type of capital should you raise, and from who?

David Teten

That said, venture capital is just one of many options to finance your business, and it’s typically the most expensive. The first step is to decide the right capital structure for your financing. SBA loans are available through SBA-approved banks and SBIC funds. A good resource for looking up SBICs is here.” .

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

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.), If they’re still publically funding startups after five to ten years they’ve failed. but then the government got out of the way.

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Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

David Teten

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 can use an evergreen fund structure.

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

Steve Blank

The Group is worth noting for: Investing their own private money, Reid Dennis would found Institutional Venture Partners in 1974 First group specifically investing in the valley’s electronics industry SBIC Act of 1958 During the cold war the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States.