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Thoughts on Sourcing Black Companies and Entrepreneurs

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The entrepreneur responded with a long explanation that was a brilliant and extremely helpful perspective for me. Maybe we all need to start talking about grit instead of metrics that can only be achieved with money, and then make sure all entrepreneurs get the funding required to achieve equivalent metrics. It follows.

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Why Gross Profit Is More Important Than Revenue

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We ended up talking about using Gross Profit, instead of Revenue, to do valuation analysis. Since we invest across a number of different themes, we’ve had to deal with very different revenue and gross margin profiles since the beginning, whether we realized it or not. We’ve been doing this for a long time at Foundry Group.

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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

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Since releasing my newest book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors I’ve been continually getting the questions “Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?” For entrepreneurs? We started playing with expanding upon his pithy aphorisms and gathering stories from entrepreneurs, and it clicked.

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Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund

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HBCUvc is seeking to expand its VC Lab and Fund program that invests in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx entrepreneurs building technology companies. Currently, while there are similar funding organizations for other universities, there are no funding groups affiliated with investing or supporting entrepreneurs from the HBCU ecosystem.

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Revenue vs. Income

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I’m tired of “Revenue” being referred to as “Income.” For firms, income generally refers to net-profit: what remains of revenue after expenses have been subtracted. . Call the thing at the top of the P&L “Revenue”, not “Income” Rant off. ” Confusing?

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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

Feld Thoughts

Since releasing my newest book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors I’ve been continually getting the questions “Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?” For entrepreneurs? We started playing with expanding upon his pithy aphorisms and gathering stories from entrepreneurs, and it clicked.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

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Companies were being bought (and valued) at 10x forward revenue only to be valued at between 0.5x revenue several years later. We were bought for a more reasonable 1x revenue (and about 4x pre-tax income) when the value of the AmeriData stock, options, and cash we took out were factored in. I’d argue the 0.5x