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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though many of these can be mitigated by testing and early customer feedback , you will find that it pays big dividends to do your homework before building and rolling out every new initiative: In today’s customer data overload, marketing is essential. Customers won’t buy what they can’t find or don’t understand.

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6 Keys to Attracting Customers Based On Social Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

But these days, it can pay big dividends to go above and beyond to make people happy or benefit society. Yet don’t assume that any of these will override the basic need of every business to be self-sustaining via revenue to meet expenses over time. Highlight benevolence to customers and society.

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Six Ways To End The Last Quarter Strong To Meet Revenue Goals

YoungUpstarts

The end of the year is approaching but many businesses have yet to meet their end-of-year revenue goals. It takes some time to set up, but the investment pays for itself in dividends. by Angela Leavitt, founder of Mojo Marketing. If you’re like many business owners or sales leaders, you may be sweating.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.) “Things will not stay the same at GE.”. So what happened? In fact, what happened is activist investors.