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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. In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. 2-5x return cap + path to uncapped equity-returns.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Global Small Business Blog.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. Your customers and your investors like partners? In addition, a transcript of this first part of the conversation is below. What if it works?