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Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 5)
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Sramana: Let me ask you a specific question along those lines as a follow-up about education. Education is an area where we’re seeing a lot of interest among entrepreneurs. It’s clear that education is a big problem that needs to be solved by a
Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 4)
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Sramana: What other programs are you thinking about or incubating within your charter that are going to help this ecosystem that we work with and you work with? Sean: The SBIC program, again, it is a fund of funds. For the most part, it’s
Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 3)
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Sramana: I think the DOE [angle] is very straightforward because the energy agenda is very present. Clean tech is an active field of entrepreneurship right now, so we understand the DOE very well, and we understand the synergy between the clean tech community and
Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 2)
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Sean: Last year, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) put $2.5 billion dollars in the hands of small-business [owners] who [have] innovative technology companies. And just as a point of reference, last year the entire venture industry put in only $1.7 billion, in terms of
Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 1)
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the twenty-first interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. Irina is talking to Sean Greene, associate administrator for investment and special advisor for innovation at the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA was created in 1953 as an independent agency of
