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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. .

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. But I was bad at the “business” of being a motivational speaker. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO.