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What in the World ?!?

thebarefootvc

”, almost exactly 2 years ago to this day at Bloomberg LP’s headquarters in NYC as part of Social Media Week. I overviewed demographic and economic trends globally and outlined the opportunity for technology companies to access growth in the emerging markets. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.

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Emerging Manager Mode: The VC’s version of “Do things that don’t scale”

VC Cafe

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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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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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce. Blockchains are going to reorganize large swaths of global economic activity, creating massive new winners.

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2022 Predictions

Eric Friedman

This is already happening, but there will be an explosion of rolling funds, operator angels, and micro investors who want to co-invest in friends, companies, and cohorts they are a part of. Maybe the founders are the micro VCs we have been waiting for? This sort of happened. 6/ I don’t get the vaccine for COVID19 (but want too!).

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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.