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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(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.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”.

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All About Patents: An Entrepreneur’s Guide

YoungUpstarts

by Solomon Ali, Co-Founder of Revolutionary Concepts. The costs associated with patenting your technological or creative boon, successfully bringing your product to market and compelling larger companies to come to the table and negotiate a royalty deal rests in how you proceed. Determining if Your Idea is Patentable.

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Why VCs Explaining “It Was Only 4% Of Our Fund” Is Misleading Minimization When a High Flying Startup Implodes.

Hunter Walker

In fact, losing money on a meaningful percentage of startups isn’t just expected, it’s potentially evidence that you’re taking enough risk to hit some of the power law winners which will pay back your LPs many times over! Opportunity Cost of GP’s Time. Opportunity Cost of Follow-on Capital.