Cap Table Cofounder Developer Partner 
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.
NZ Entrepreneur
DECEMBER 18, 2022
These breakthroughs can transform whole sectors beyond recognition, potentially leading to big payoff for early investors, but often take years of research and development to become market ready. We also support researchers to develop the entrepreneurial skills and connections needed to run a successful business,” adds Pierre.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 7, 2015
I love how open Danielle has been throughout the development of her startup Mattermark including honest reflections of when she has changed her opinion. I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. All of my partners at Upfront do. That’s what it feels like.”. This is a hard one.
Pascal's View
JULY 9, 2017
Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. The most serious unintended consequence occurs from “note waterfalls”— converting multiple notes that have multiple valuation caps. Many entrepreneurs lose track of what they have been cooking up in the cap table.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.
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