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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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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

Gordon Platt, President, Gotham Media , observes, “You may meet people on-line, but when’s the last time you really made a long-term, financially meaningful commitment exclusively as the result of a virtual interaction?” (That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.). Tech stack.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. We’ve received numerous constructive comments, both privately and on social media, from attorneys, VCs, and CEOs who are well aware of the problem (including several who are experiencing it in real time).

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Getting Back the Band Together for NextView’s Investment in BookBub

Genuine VC

Just about fifteen years ago, Josh Schanker and I, along with our co-founders Elliot Shmukler and Tammy O’Neil Bolduc started Sombasa Media together. Series A financing. On top of it, this financing is a bit of a “getting the band back together” of sorts. Today BookBub is announcing its $3.8M

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Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift

Genuine VC

Using real-time image engagement analytics, the company identifies and amplifies brands’ images through initiating paid media and catalyzing earned media. Today Triple Lift announced their $2M seed round financing. We at NextView Ventures are happy to join co-investors True Ventures, iNovia, and the rest of the syndicate.

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5 Questions VCs Never Answer, Answered by a VC | #BOSSOI

View from Seed

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. And that product is a highly engaged seed-stage investment where we are usually the lead or co-lead in a round and will often take a board seat.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

Joel Gascoigne is the co-founder and CEO of Buffer, a social media management platform. By making his companies journey, experiments, problems and even finances public I have learnt many lessons. I do my best to learn and emulate his distinctive leadership style in my day to day role as Founder and CEO of Harmony Helper.