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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s not accident we have so many great startups targeting commerce including Tradesy, DailyLook, NastyGal, Honest Co & JustFab just to name a few. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 ”).

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Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?

ReadWriteStart

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. Howard Marks, the co-founder of game giant Activision, and the current co-chair at the Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine , was born in Santa Monica to European parents, grew up in France and came back to the states for college. .

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

Shortly after I graduated from college in 1990, America entered a recession. And my dream was to create some kind of software product that could positively impact people’s lives at massive scale. I wasn’t exactly sure what this software would do yet. The unemployment rate peaked at 7.3 percent in 1991. It was 1999.

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Hire a Recruiter.Now

Seeing Both Sides

The unemployment rate in America is hovering around 9%. But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.