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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. ARR of $500K+. ” .

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

We buy securities at one price and hope that we can sell them for a highly appreciated price at some time during the term of our fund because we borrow the money we use to buy those securities. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. As you know, I started a company in 2012 focused on the question of open banking.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

We just held our tenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. She served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. But also, to bring more tech talent into government to really help speed the transformation process. — On China.

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Celebrating the body of work of my clients in 2013

Early Growth Financial Services

Thanks to my team at Portfolio for believing in me and Body of Work. And so like we did in 2009 , 2010, 2011 and 2012 please raise your fists in the air and celebrate these amazing people who rolled up their sleeves, faced their fears and shipped something meaningful in 2013. I write for you, and believe in your dreams.

Phoenix 75
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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4%

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.