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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. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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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. VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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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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Why We Must Have Zero Tolerance for Sexual Misconduct in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

You can love them and want rehabilitation and perhaps one day redemption but when a person has exploited a position of power they don’t deserve our sympathy above that of the victims and they don’t deserve a free pass back into power. Victims must always deserve more respect than a flawed human being in search of redemption.

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Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO

abovethecrowd.com

Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. Some have argued that each of these companies would already be public in a prior era.

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity. I originally got to thinking about this when I received a 485 page information statement on a previously announced merger between Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial. At the IPO, Musk held a 14.2% Hope that changes in 2016.

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