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Article: Silicon Valley Bank Taking Portal Approach to Mine Dot-Com Market.
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- December 15, 1999
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -
Silicon Valley Bancshares is spearheading the creation of a global Internet portal to connect high-tech entrepreneurs with venture capitalists, service providers, and other third-party vendors.
According to chief executive John C. Dean, the $3.7 billion-asset banking company is testing the waters for the massive project by contacting other commercial and investment banks as well as legal and accounting firms in such far-flung locales as Israel, Germany, India, and Japan.
"The world of technology has changed in the past 10 years, and it's not just Silicon Valley anymore," Mr. Dean said in an interview at the company's ...