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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, All Earnest investments are made using the Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) – a custom salary/profit share structure, aligned with how most bootstrapped founders are compensated. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

Out of fairness, that’s why they wanted to hire me, to fix that issue. Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure. Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. Tristan says: January 24, 2011 at 9:07 pm.