article thumbnail

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

David Teten

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

Revenue 60
article thumbnail

Female Founder Interview: Author and Business Leader Martha Razo

The Startup Magazine

Martha: I would like to share this quote from “Business Diva” author Laura Alcantar Leon, CEO of S & L Pallets, LLC: “Do not feel discouraged if you do not have a degree. Martha: Business owners measure their growth by their numbers; revenues, profits, number of employees, the number of locations they own, etc.

Founder 167
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Five Tips To Dealing With Insider Threats Facing SMBs

YoungUpstarts

John is a new employee at Xyz LLC as their Account Manager. Everything was great until revenues started slowing down. Upstarting LLC. The executives left to diffuse the situation and somehow quickly had a job with Upstarting’s competitor Maverick LLC. Tip #5: Behavior Analytics & Automated Alerts.

LLC 150
article thumbnail

[Interview] Nir Bashan, Author, Entrepreneur, And Leading Business Coach On Creativity 

YoungUpstarts

Nir Bashan is the founder and CEO of The Creator Mindset LLC, where he teaches business leaders how to harness the power of creativity to improve profitability, increase sales, and make work more meaningful. Business leaders are discouraged from using creativity because we have been drilled in analytics and logic from a very young age.

Analytics 200
article thumbnail

26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #3- I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. An interesting aside: revenue continued at old levels, even after slashing work hours by 60%). Thanks to Link Moser, Windhill Design LLC ! #26-

Naming 149
article thumbnail

How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

article thumbnail

Does Your Startup Need A Technical Co-Founder?

ReadWriteStart

Being able to change your website on the fly based off a new analytic has been key in growing our online business. Jerry Piscitelli , Portopong LLC. Jerry Piscitelli , Portopong LLC. We use technology in every business, from online sales and shipping to mobile Web. You Need Basics, Hire For The Rest.