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Why Is Shareholder Liability Limited?

by pacifica/September 2, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Will Pate asks an interesting question: What is the best reasoning behind why shareholders have limited liability for a corporation’s environmental and social costs? Not on a case by case basis, but why it is the blueprint for the most […]

When a Technology Lead Doesn’t Matter

by pacifica/August 10, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Given the engineering orientation of the Valley, and the technology bent of our firm, it’s no surprise that well over half the entrepreneurs pitching have some technological market lead at the core of their business. Most of the remainder will […]

How To Save Hollywood

by pacifica/July 16, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

(By guest blogger Kevin Laws, former entertainment industry consultant and current venture investor) It’s not too late for the motion picture industry to avoid the music industry’s fate Several months ago, I predicted that the motion picture industry would learn […]

More Media Displacement; A Rant on “Reed’s Law”

by pacifica/July 8, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Ross Mayfield pulls together more evidence that displacement of viewing time by new media is well underway. Though – as I point out below, newspapers are the most overpriced advertising medium, the evidence suggests that all exposure based advertising models […]

The Most Overrated Medium

by pacifica/June 28, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Wiith a variety of surveys suggesting that Internet usage cannibalizes television viewing, one might think TV is the most threatened medium as the market ecology changes. An Economist survey article on advertising suggests that choice might be selecting the wrong goat: A graph […]

Joel on APIs: A Historical Perspective

by pacifica/June 22, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Joel Spolsky’s latest is a valuable SITREP on the ongoing Platform Wars between Microsoft and everyone else. If you are a software developer or entrepreneur, read the whole thing. For others, his thesis is that Microsoft itself has destabilized developer […]

The Book Exercise

by pacifica/April 22, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Via danah boyd: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. “It illustrates how tightly linked the value proposition and operating […]

Off the air for a few days

by pacifica/March 31, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

An e-mail all the way from Argentina cited my HyperCard eulogy and informed me that the product had been mentioned in Tim Berners-Lee’s original WWW proposal. Son of a gun, there it is. I never knew that. The same search […]

A Eulogy for HyperCard

by pacifica/March 26, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

To the surprise of few, Apple’s Hypercard passed away quietly this week, after life support was finally withdrawn by the company. It had a run of over 16 years – though the last were in circumstances of at best benign […]

Are you my friend? Yes or no?

by pacifica/February 11, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

That greeting – a reference to Orkut’s friend link request dialog – has become the tag line of the Etech week. I snickered when I first heard it, paid attention the second time, then got hit with it myself by […]

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Pacifica Fund is a Silicon Valley venture fund specializing in early investments in select, emerging information technology, energy, and materials companies. We help bridge the funding gap — the hard-to-find $1 to $5 million required by many small companies — with investments of “mentor capital”, an approach that supplies capital, strategic and operational advice from our team, as well as access to connections in the US and Asia.

Because we have founded and run start-ups, managed divisions of large companies, and run research labs; we understand what you need in the way of capital, strategy, and partnerships. We’re uniquely qualified to help you bridge the most significant gap encountered by an entrepreneur — the distance between a great idea and a lasting, successful business.

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