PRINT THIS PAGE High Technology VC in the San Francisco Bay Area
26/01/2005. Source:Fenwick and West. Fred Greguras and Blake Stafford
Fenwick and West map the venture capital landscape of this important area of Silicon Valley, including the basic legal issues, the C-Corp form for tech enterprise formation and venture funding in the region. Other issues addressed in this primer for the area include team formations and the difficulties tech firms will face without market validation.
Validation is a chicken and egg problem in some of the Bay area's high technology market spaces. In a chip business, for example, validation requires money while a software business may be able to reach validation with mostly sweat equity.
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