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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. We identify great innovative companies with solid business models and help them determine the right growth path for their businesses.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. Strikingly different attributes enabled this company to take a different path than Zappos: - Rapidly growing market. Questionable business model.

IPO 162
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Are You Selling Your Company? Be Careful with Financial Buyers!

Scott Edward Walker

Financial buyers are investors that are interested in a return on their investment business – which is the business of buying and selling companies. Instead of investing in the stock market or in startups (e.g., How Is the Deal Structure Different with a Financial Buyer?

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. Outside of that terrible experience when money was most scarce for me, I haven’t gambled much in the market. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets? I am not a guru in stock trading.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

While it’s flattering that someone might think I’m capable of immediately grasping all the complexities of the business instantly, it’s a bit unrealistic. If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway. You don’t have a defensible business model.