David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From traditional equity VC, Flexible VC borrows the option to pursue and reap the rewards of an outsized exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. Equity Ownership. Yes, typically preferred equity. On average, founders own just 43% of equity by Series B , declining thereafter. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Glen Mello: Venture debt is a good complement to equity. It’s generally got a lower cost compared to equity capital and can help support growth. So it makes it a lot more challenging when you have debt on the books that isn’t as longer term as equity. What are some pros and cons?

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years is not a long arc – I have not experienced a prolonged down market as a private investor. We know private markets hold the key to 100x or even 1,000x multiples. In short, in my 6.5

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

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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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

One reason Satya and I thought we had Product Market Fit for starting Homebrew was behavior we saw as angel investors. If you just need the money, stick unknown angels in an AngelList Syndicate so they have more limited information rights. And relationships are long term equities. Avoid these folks. That’s a good thing.).

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Rob Go

AUGUST 26, 2013

Over the past couple years, there has been an emerging bifurcation in the seed investing market. Often priced equity, but often convertible note. Most seed rounds tended to look like “genesis rounds” This market gap, coupled with the capital efficiency of software brought on the rise of seed funds. or even more.

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