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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Founder Earnings = Net Income + any amount of founders’ salaries over a certain threshold. This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

He lives in a small town in Idaho, so he can find out from Census.gov how many families live in his town. I guess one of the things to talk about is how someone might maybe use business model canvas first and then the lean plan. You do need these simple estimates to be able to manage your business well.

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

online.wsj.com

"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. Non-classifiable Establishments. California. Connecticut. New Jersey.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Whether that’s looking at things like accounts payable, future rent payments, upcoming salary costs. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. You have to focus on for the nuts and bolts, what is the business model, how are we going to make money.