Comments on: The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital” Part 2 http://steveblank.com/2009/10/29/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-12-the-rise-of-%e2%80%9crisk-capital%e2%80%9d-part-2/ Entrepreneurship and Conservation Tue, 29 May 2012 21:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: How to be a better venture capitalist: Run a startup | VentureBeat http://steveblank.com/2009/10/29/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-12-the-rise-of-%e2%80%9crisk-capital%e2%80%9d-part-2/#comment-18537 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:26:52 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3951#comment-18537 [...] capital as a profession is less than half a century old. Over time, venture firms realized that the partners in the firms needed a variety of [...]

]]> By: Here’s Why Venture Capitalists Should Be Startup CEOs | Fortress Capital Group Limited http://steveblank.com/2009/10/29/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-12-the-rise-of-%e2%80%9crisk-capital%e2%80%9d-part-2/#comment-16398 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:42:18 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3951#comment-16398 [...] Venture capital as a profession is less than half a century old. [...]

]]> By: Steel in Their Eyes — Why VCs Should be Startup CEOs « The Berkeley Blog http://steveblank.com/2009/10/29/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-12-the-rise-of-%e2%80%9crisk-capital%e2%80%9d-part-2/#comment-15363 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:36:06 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3951#comment-15363 [...] Venture capital as a profession is less than half a century old. [...]

]]> By: Eureka! A new era for scientists and engineers « The Berkeley Blog http://steveblank.com/2009/10/29/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-12-the-rise-of-%e2%80%9crisk-capital%e2%80%9d-part-2/#comment-12452 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:27:35 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3951#comment-12452 [...] combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. While most of [...]

]]> By: steveblank http://steveblank.com/2009/10/29/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-12-the-rise-of-%e2%80%9crisk-capital%e2%80%9d-part-2/#comment-1797 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:02:51 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3951#comment-1797 Funding is typically a bit more overt now a days. See http://www.iqt.org/
Though not always.

steve

]]> By: reader http://steveblank.com/2009/10/29/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-12-the-rise-of-%e2%80%9crisk-capital%e2%80%9d-part-2/#comment-1796 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:07 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3951#comment-1796 Thanks for this great series. I guess the question that begs asking is whether the military/intelligence substrata of the valley continues to this day. Makes you wonder who is really behind Google, Facebook, and Twitter (which are big brother systems, if there ever was one). Care to comment?

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