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

David Teten

RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . The RBI investment model better aligns incentives between VCs and a founder who chooses to bootstrap.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, Dan Stewart, from Tampa/St.