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Failure and Redemption

Steve Blank

We give abundant advice to founders about how to make startups succeed yet we offer few models about dealing with failure. Redemption. My wife was a great partner here. We established a team of founders who worked collaboratively. Six stages of failure and redemption. Should be past grief.” So here’s mine.

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Failure and Redemption

Steve Blank

We give abundant advice to founders about how to make startups succeed yet we offer few models about dealing with failure. Redemption. My wife was a great partner here. We established a team of founders who worked collaboratively. Six stages of failure and redemption. Should be past grief.” So here’s mine.

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

Up and Running

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. Those partners paid for a membership with Recycler Spotter. 60 percent of respondents chose premium! Priorities change.

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Mobile Spinach – Mobile Commerce And Group-Buying Platform

YoungUpstarts

This makes redemption quick and convenient, without the hassle of showing printed emails or other methods employed by traditional group-buying sites. Mobile Spinach was founded in 2010 by entrepreneurs John Vitti, Antonio Vitti, and Steve Lewis.

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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 We’ll be able to start partnering soon (we are currently under Alpha-stealth mode).”

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