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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Early liquidity.

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A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Josh Brooks, who ran marketing for MySpace for three years, is the founder of a company that lets users take photos form their phones, and then use those photos to send postcards in the real world to their friends and family. pre money valuation and planned to use the money to market the app. POSTCARDS ON THE RUN.

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

I think it’s much better to think of things in terms of company milestones , which are: Inception –> Early Product-Market Fit –> Strong PMF –> Scaling Growth. Or maybe your market hasn’t quite developed as quickly as you’d hoped. Almost all VCs actually invest across this spectrum.

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Not Building a Unicorn

Austin Startup

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. On the others, at least I’ll get my money back before anyone else does.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. If you want to launch a new business, this is a great market to launch from because you can easily reach all of the major Texas cities with one office. The larger Dallas metro-region is the fourth largest in the country and Houston metro-region is the fifth.

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