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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

YoungUpstarts

by Emmanuel de Watteville, co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures. A concrete monetization strategy, or at the very least a revenue model, gives investors detailed insight into how a startup plans to generate profit once an established network is set into place. It’s essential to dissect marketing and monetization strategies together.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio).

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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

YoungUpstarts

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services. by Kenneth H.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

I’ll start with all the questions I can think of, from many different perspectives: founders, LPs, the press, and even other VCs. Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder? That said, I’m not sure of the most appropriate structure.

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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

ME: Of course getting tied up with that might distract you from other growth opportunities, and sometimes buyers don’t like that you’re dependent on another company for revenue. That means you have to be that sure that that’s the number, regardless of deal structure.

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