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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. . Flexible VC: Compensation-based.

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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. This is the best time to fundraise because that’s when you are able to command a meaningfully higher valuation for your next round to minimize your own dilution.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. Lockheed Martin is building the F-35 aircraft in Fort Worth. Texas military bases pump more than $75 billion into the Texas GDP annually and support more than 226,000 direct jobs.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc. link] Dave Sandrowitz. Really insightful stuff.

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How We Think About Pre-Seeds at NextView

Rob Go

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. This is the best time to fundraise because that’s when you are able to command a meaningfully higher valuation for your next round to minimize your own dilution. You can find that here.