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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

Feld Thoughts

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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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

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.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

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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Small business Congress-watch: Three Pending Bills and Why They Matter

crowdSPRING Blog

511: EXCEL Act (Introduced 3/11/2013) The EXCEL (Expanding Access to Capital for Entrepreneurial Leaders) Act amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 and seeks to guarantee the payment of securities issued by small business investment companies (SBICs) of up to $4 billion annually.

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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. I focused on using technology for sourcing. A few weeks ago I presented on “ Where Are the Deals? I’ve posted below the video and slide deck.

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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. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

Again Stanford technology would solve these challenges. Frustrated with Kern’s lack of interest in investing in more technology companies, Tommy Davis would go on to found one of Silicon Valley’s first VC firms with Arthur Rock, creating Davis and Rock, founded in 1961. This was a two-pronged challenge: the U.S.