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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

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. Inaccessible to great majority of early-stage companies.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

Genuine VC

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. Then not every newspaper needed to be as large as the New York Times or required the capital to do so.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

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Playing Startup

View from Seed

We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? How many fresh college graduates are going to LA or Seattle or New York versus coming to the Bay Area? Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here?

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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