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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands.

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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

ReadWriteStart

BluePallet was established in 2020 in Austin, Texas, by Esther Lopez (SimpleTrade Inc). In addition, it provides support services like integrated banking, finance, embedded logistics, and vetted suppliers. Additionally, it provides trade financing, intelligence, analytics, and ERP integration. Blue Pallet.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? 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. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy

Steve Blank

This power is wielded through a combination of a country’s diplomacy, information, its military capabilities, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. Helen Warrell, “ From Desert Storm to Soleimani: How US Drone Warfare has Evolved ” Financial Times , 2020. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s Required Readings.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. See Why venture capitalists are investing in international startups and Why international startups love NY, and why NY VCs love international startups.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.