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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Typical business stage. An already proven business model and its already valuable assets. Typical business model.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability. redemption, revenue share, etc.) and typically at a negotiated multiple. “To

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). I originally got to thinking about this when I received a 485 page information statement on a previously announced merger between Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial. Hope that changes in 2016. Most never make it there.

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Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO

abovethecrowd.com

Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. If you want to know if the business model truly hunts, you must pay careful attention.

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