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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. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Flexible VC: Compensation-based.

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

Agile VC

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Here’s a slightly perverse scenario… Acme Ventures starts out as an early-stage VC investing in US-based IT companies. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M). link] Dave Sandrowitz.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. Some technology vendors are providing options to limit distribution of confidential information from GP reports.

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Thinking About 2015

Feld Thoughts

We have a very clear thematic strategy that we’ve discussed openly, along with a few other key principles such as being willing to invest anywhere in the US and being syndication agnostic. At dinner we zoned in on all of the current activity in early stage tech. Our conversation shifted to 2015.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. startupcto

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Announcing NextView Ventures II

Rob Go

We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company. For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. Are we hungry to keep innovating and investing internally to build on our early product-market fit?

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Not Building a Unicorn

Austin Startup

And as online tools and new ecosystem resources (i) allow angels and seed funds to syndicate larger early-stage rounds, and (ii) un-bundle the value-add resources once limited to larger funds, non-institutional Series As (or larger-than-usual seed rounds) are going to continue to be a thing.