John R. Anderson, the founder of Spring Creek Partners, has been in the venture capital industry since 1968 when he started his own firm, Androck Capital and SBIC. He was an early investor in Silicon Valley in the late ’60s. In 1972 he became the first limited partner in Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins’s first venture fund. He is the senior partner of Anderson Enterprises, the Anderson family holding company, and has been active in the acquisition and management of small to medium-sized businesses. He is the third generation in his business, originally started by his grandfather in 1915. In 1968, he started a pharmaceutical packaging company, Anderson Packaging, Inc., which became one of t