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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. At least 12 months of customer history, generally 20+ enterprise customers or 200+ SMB customers.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

The clicks aren’t from potential customers, but they’re often from real people. After all, they want potential customers clicking their ads, and each instance of click fraud makes advertising more costly. When the fraud hit, that fell to just a few hundred pounds of revenue a day and a ton of wasted spend. Click farms.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

ReadWriteStart

To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). Who are my most profitable customers?) His firm invests in four. That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Every software project would have to be separated into “standard” (taxable) and “custom” (non-taxable) categories. So I feel I have pretty good mix of horse sense and formal education. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

There’s a lot of questions about what do you actually need in terms of information, if you’re going to do your forecasting, and how does one put together a revenue forecast if you’ve never started a business or your business is brand new. It is a very difficult proposition. Sabrina: Great, thanks Tim.

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