Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

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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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many of the leading RBI investors, including Decathlon Capital , Indie.VC , Lighter Capital , Corl , Feenix Partners , Clearbanc (which has a distinct model), and Founders First Capital report far higher rates of women and underrepresented founders pitching them and winning capital than traditional VCs see.

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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. In response, one of the many U.S. national initiatives (DARPA, NASA, Space Race, etc.) government would invest three (up to $300,000.)

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