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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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How and Why You Should Validate Your App Idea Before You Build

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Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. The end user of the application was those who recycled, however, the recycling and reward redemption process required partnerships with recycling facilities, local businesses, and government agencies.

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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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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). If new investors get better rights in a future equity financings (such as registration rights, price-based anti-dilution, redemption rights, etc.), Co-sale rights.

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The 15 Best Movies for Entrepreneurs of 2015

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Despite having a better writer (Aaron Sorkin), a better director (Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle), and a much better cast (Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, and Seth Rogen, among others), “Steve Jobs” suffered by coming after too many other biopics about the enigmatic co-founder of Apple Computers. Straight Outta Compton. Ex Machina.

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The Heart Of The Game: PR Lessons Learned From Game Of Thrones

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by Leslie Licano, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Fifteen Communications. million and overall TV and on-demand viewership rose by 4 percent. But more to the point is the idea of redemption when a mistake has been made. At the end of its sixth season, the bellicose and violently belligerent network hero, which averages 23.3

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