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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6%

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Mathematical vs. Economic Dilution of Startup Equity: Thinner Slices of an Extra-Large Pizza

Gust

Let’s get right down to business: Dilution of founders’ and other early shareholders’ equity in startups is frequently a subject of intense interest and debate. If you read the “ Dilution ” section of an IPO prospectus , you’ll see that the opposite happens to investors in the new public shares.

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Every Generation Learns The Same Lessons

Feld Thoughts

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: November 28th – December 4th

Scott Edward Walker

.” - @mlevchin on.wsj.com/vwmMDi “Think really hard about whether you actually need that business cofounder.” vp68LI Facebook To Bankers: Hands Off Our $10 Billion IPO – “Facebook has gone so far as to craft its own prospectus.” ” - @jasonfreedman bit.ly/vp68LI ” - @sgblank bit.ly/umd8Vp

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The AI Jobs Report: What’s at Risk and Where the Opportunity Lies

VC Cafe

Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList has therefore given very clear advice for job seekers: “The fastest way to help somebody get a job right now: If you know somebody in the market who’s looking for a job, the best thing you can do is say, ‘Hey, go download the AI tools and start talking to them.’

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