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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

For example, my firm at the time, Continental Illinois Venture Corporation, the wholly owned SBIC of Chicago’s Continental Bank, had many successful investments. Highly regarded private SBIC, **Sutter Hill Affiliate, Norwegian Shipping Family, +B of A’s SBIC. 1,250,000. Total.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

” 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. Elect 1-2 representatives and even invite a local VC to invest personally and sit on the investment committee or be an advisor.

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New video: Private equity origination best practices

David Teten

Best Practices of Private Equity Funds in Origination ” at the Wells Fargo SBIC Symposium, an event for their portfolio funds. The post New video: Private equity origination best practices appeared first on David Teten. A few weeks ago I presented on “ Where Are the Deals? I focused on using technology for sourcing.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) lesson of using SBIC funds.), When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. but then the government got out of the way.

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

Steve Blank

Terman arranged for a research assistantship to bring his former student, David Packard, back from a job at General Electric in New York to collaborate with William Hewlett, another of Terman’s graduate students. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. Terman was also on the board of HP.