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.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Changes in customer tastes, new technologies, legislation, new competitors, etc. lesson of using SBIC funds.), Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family.
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Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
” 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.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2009
These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. 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.
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