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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. trillion by 2030.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. I switched career fields at the last minute and ended up serving as an Air Force engineer where I worked on a few drone programs. RH: Close your eyes and imagine where your business will be in five years. DC: What’s the same.

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The Biggest Barriers Keeping Your Startup From Seeing Its Full Potential

ReadWriteStart

They want to open new offices, generate more revenue, and ultimately, secure higher profitability. . You could put together a client referral program. And the revenue from your existing customers alone may not be enough to cut it. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? You could work to get more PR exposure.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.