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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

Sharing these pricing expectations early with potential lead investors fundamentally qualifies your conversations, but it also runs the risk of prematurely losing a potential financing partner, or else it can reduce options to maximize your fundraise outcome. And as my partner Rob Go likes to say, “Time kills all deals.”).

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Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions

Genuine VC

Sharing these expectations early in potential lead investor discussions fundamentally qualifies the conversations, but it also runs the risk of prematurely losing a potential financing partner or reducing options to maximize a financing process outcome. It’s like opening a job interview by sharing salary requirements.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Michael Kassing.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. I travelled all over the world wherever business deals were happening, gained tremendous experience and exposure to the Corporate landscape, and learned invaluable life lessons in my career. Same as above.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

Another option: look on the sites of such domain name investors as Archeo , Demand Media , GlobalVentures , iREIT (portfolio handled by DomainHoldings), Oversee.net , and World Accelerator. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

Another option: look on the sites of such domain name investors as Archeo , Demand Media , GlobalVentures , iREIT (portfolio handled by DomainHoldings), Oversee.net , and World Accelerator. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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