Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Where do you think entrepreneurs could acquire business skills for building and developing their companies? Jim: There are lots of organizations. I’m in the Philadelphia area, and the purpose of many organizations here, universities and incubators that run entrepreneurship courses, is to try to help people

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Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: There’re probably 600 or 700 federal laboratories, and as I said, their annual research budget is $150 billion. As part of that, there are a number of laws on the books that require the federal laboratories to transfer technology into the commercial, private sector. There are

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Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: So, as I was saying, “the valley of death” [for a technology startup company] is the place between, roughly, the $100,000 that you can raise on your own and maybe the $2.5 million or $3 million, which is the level at which a venture capital firm

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Deal Radar 2009: Force10 Networks

Founded in 1999, Force10 Networks builds and secures high-performance networks. The company develops and manufactures switching and routing equipment including switches/routers, line cards, resilient switches, access switches, and security appliances. Formerly known as nCore Technologies, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California.