Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. ——-.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business. to 15.0%.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Most of these funds are <$100M, with the majority of them being clustered around the $40M mark (that’s the point where the fund economics start to work in terms of management fee and ability to take a meaningful stake in portfolio companies). Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution.

Mezzanine 134

Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134