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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  I’ve sat down with entrepreneurs and a copy of a term sheet guide I like [ “Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations ” by Alex Wilmerding, Aspatore Press.]   First , dividends.   A cumulative dividend compounds annually.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics. Where are all of the VCs in Asia? As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities.

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Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates

Steve Blank

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. Don’t underestimate the undergraduates; in fact, the potential dividends of their academic prowess, augmented by their hard fought real-world experience makes them all formidable opponents.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.”

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Education plays a major role in venture capital. shares, dividends). Most crowdfunding platforms display the number of current backers of a project in a very prominent place: Potential donors use that metric to determine the value of the project: “…these statistics invite conjectures about the (unknown) quality of the project.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. I’m going to share what the metrics are for a SAS business, which is software as a service, and that’s what we are here at LivePlan, so these are the things that we track on a daily basis. Every model, it doesn’t matter what you are.