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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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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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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy. Especially in a global economy that is becoming flatter and more competitive by the day, skimping on marketing is not the way to save money, because you’ll quickly find yourself out-publicized and out-advertised by the competition. Or a partner defects with your top client.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Priavte Startups May Get Liquidity With the Launch of SecondMarket in Israel

VC Cafe

SecondMarket’s effort in Israel will be led by Ranan Lachman (VP) , who was previously at Oppenheimer & Co, one of the largest underwriters for Israeli startups, where he was involved in fundraising and IPOing numerous Israeli private companies. So how strong can we expect the demand to be in Israel?