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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Earnest Capital : Earnest is not technically RBI.

Revenue 60
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The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. The post The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping first appeared on Rob Walling - Serial Entrepreneur. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product.

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. So why did that grow my business faster than testing and tweaking each of these products individually?

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. So why did that grow my business faster than testing and tweaking each of these products individually?

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

David Teten

I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc. That’s how we can offer competitive rates … with no prepayment penalties or warrants attached. He said, . “[W]e All term sheets are a negotiation.

Revenue 60
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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Swiftrank

crowdSPRING Blog

We were bootstrapping this home delivery air filter business, and we felt crowdSPRING would provide a cost-effective, peak creative approach to logo design, and then our website design. Why in the world did you decide to use crowdSPRING?! We were thrilled with the results, all of which still live on the site today.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. Next, I would push ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs to remove the convenient (and often true) excuses for not warranting investment. You might need to bootstrap longer. Is it human?