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The U.S. Environment for Venture Capital and Technology-Based Start-Ups by John Shoch
The U.S. Environment for Venture Capital and Technology-Based Start-Ups by John Shoch
Pages 119-124
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You might wonder how we manage to operate with an inflow of $6.6 billion and an outflow of $10 billion. There are several kinds of venture investment entities beyond the traditional, professionally managed venture capital firms which are measured by NVCA.
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We are finding more and more people coming under the umbrella of venture capital for later stage investments in retail chains, commercial shopping centers, and other private equity investments outside high technology. The best estimate I have is that about 60 percent of this money goes into high technology, broadly including information technology and life sciences or medical technology.
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He attracted Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and others who came West to join Shockley Semiconductor. Shockley was a fairly aggressive manager and Gordon Moore recently thanked him profusely for having propelled Moore out of Shockley Semiconductor with his management style.
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If you go back and look at the evolution of Coherent Radiation and Spectra-Physics, the two primary independent laser companies, they had some very ragged early years as people tried to figure out what to do with this unusual technology. We look to universities and the corporate industrial labs as a far more appropriate place to do this sort of research than small start-ups.
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My final observation reinforces some things that Chuck Geschke and Dick Thornburgh said earlier on the issue of tort reform and securities litigation. I know that, for many people here who primarily focus on broader policy issues, this must seem like an incredibly irrelevant, narrow point.
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I regret that we have to spend time on it, but it is an important reality in our business environment.
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