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7 Tips To Secure Funding They Don’t Teach In Business School

YoungUpstarts

Caremerge’s technology and first-of-its-kind apps have transformed senior healthcare providing unprecedented coordination in patient care between institutions, patients and their families. In other words, you have done wonders while “bootstrapping.” The rise of technology has created new ways to raise capital.

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The Boston Consumer Tech Year In Review

Rob Go

It got me thinking about this past year, specifically around consumer tech in Boston. So I thought I’d jot down some of the highlights I have seen from my vantage point in this 2011 Boston Consumer Web Year in Review. Zipcar: Ok, not exactly consumer web/software, but a great consumer tech company nonetheless.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Earnest Capital : Earnest is not technically RBI.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I did a lot of technical interviewing. I took an opportunity selling food trucks and noticed the industry needed improved customer service. We noticed a clear need for an evolution of wallet styles and technologies and ran with it. 4- Due to lack representation in the skincare industry. Photo Credit: David Moise.

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How to Get Funding for a Business

Up and Running

Also, high-tech high-growth startups have access to investment funding that would not be available to stable, established businesses that show only slow growth. Normally you have to have a team in place, have made progress toward idea validation , or—better still—traction (paying customers). Small business financing myths.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

To increase your chances of venture capital financing, you’ll need to lower the risks as much as possible, such as: Bootstrapping as long as you can to get a working prototype into the market. The reality is that few venture capitalists are ready to write a check to a hardware startup today, and it’s not all due to the risk.

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

David Teten

Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc. He said, . “[W]e

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