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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. The State of Flexible VC. Short track record.

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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. Jaime Hildreth, Managing Director of GP and LP Strategies at Ipreo , informed us that 97% of Ipreo’s GP clients report that data requests from LP’s have increased over the past two years.

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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

Opportunity Cost of GP’s Time. Opportunity Cost of Follow-on Capital. Opportunity Cost of Non-Investment in Competitors. Relationship Cost of SPVs/Direct Co-Investment and LP Credibility. Others believe they’re moments to silently delete their Tweets.