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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? There’s an alternative to VC.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. Thanks for the article.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

Newspapers: Tampa Bay Times. There are lots of micro-outcomes, in this case given most Pharma companies are still in the early stages of savvy, I choose something close to making money, Doctor Lookups. Yet, you won’t notice it in my KPIs. Make tough choices.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Christina Campbell, The Mommy Spot Tampa ! Investors at the early stage should be looking for companies and technologies that are truly disruptive. 7) Positive Messaging in the World. As background, KonectIDY was started to create more positive messaging in the world and give back in the process.

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5 patterns behind successful billion-dollar consumer Web companies

The Next Web

Groupon, in its early stages, aimed at increasing consumer purchasing power. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”. Each new user not only got better deals but also added leverage to the purchasing power of the whole group.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. In over 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs. Dan Stewart, from Tampa/St. It would also result in creating at least 10 million jobs around the world. Happy Grasshopper.