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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. We developed Scaleworks venture finance loans to fill a need we saw for our own B2B SaaS companies. ARR of $500K+.

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” Imagine there is a hot, bottoms-up $60M revenue B2B software company raising at a $4B valuation. That’s a whopping 67x revenue.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES.

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Play4Skill Raises $400K for Dominoes Gambling

VC Cafe

Players located in any of the 12 states in the United States of America: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, lowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee and Vermont, are neither eligible to open an account with Dominoes Stars. Play4Skill’s business model is ad-supported as well as paid games.

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