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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. Reformation Partners Fund I is a $20M fund with check sizes ranging from $500k-$1.5M; the firm targets 7.5%-20% 20% initial ownership.

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The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit

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And that really helped us not fall into too many kind of pitfalls because like we kind of bootstrapped the organization, which means we self-funded it and with resources from a 13 year old and at the time I was 16. We're so close, we've gained so much knowledge about entrepreneurship and just having him as a partner.

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

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When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.