Engineer Mezzanine Revenue Venture Capital 
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 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. ——-.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. When you’re building a startup and can’t hire the engineers you need, can’t retain staff, can’t get press coverage and can’t hire sales people – it certainly affects you.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?
K9 Ventures
APRIL 9, 2014
Threshold for an IPO is higher Ten years ago, if you had $20M in revenue you were ready to go public. If you have <$100M in revenue, you’re probably going to stay private. These companies now end up raising more capital in private rounds than they raised in public offerings 10-15 years ago.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If they hit a product / market fit (meaning you suddenly see a massive uptick in usage and/or revenue) then these companies need to go “fat.&#
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
You see, Dan knows more about venture than most people; and if Dan isn’t aware that “pre-seed is a thing,” then I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining to the world what I and K9 do! Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Engineering Capital.
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