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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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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. Co-branded cards were invented, combining a Visa, MasterCard or American Express payment brand along with a retailer or airline brand. Real-time points and mileage redemption appeared at the POS, first introduced over a decade ago and now going mainstream.

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FootTraffic Offers an API for Location-Based Offers

VC Cafe

In addition, e-commerce and daily deals have been breaking all-time records with a rise sharp of redemptions on the mobile. According to Juniper Research, mobile coupon redemption values to exceed $43 billion globally by 2016 from $5.4 billion in 2011. That’s the problem that Israeli startup FootTraffic wants to solve.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Pingback: Iphone Android App.

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

YoungUpstarts

by Leslie Licano, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Fifteen Communications. But more to the point is the idea of redemption when a mistake has been made. In fact, in an ever-expanding global market it can be cutthroat and downright cruel. Coming clean and admitting fault immediately. We’re not going to do that.

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