Bootstrapping Cofounder Finance Portfolio 
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?
Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. The stats behind what Bryan and the team had accomplished while bootstrapping the business were incredible, including signing up over 1,000 paying accounts and analyzing over 30,000 code repositories EVERY DAY.
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David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Bigfoot Capital. Key elements: .
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Edwin: I know. Jason: Yeah.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Dying at 70?
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. From Tax to Legal to Finance to HR, designing the new systems requires enormous amount of collaboration, transparency and trust.
David Teten
AUGUST 20, 2019
Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.
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