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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

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?

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

Both Sides of the Table

Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. It encourages a bit too much FOMO (fear of missing out) and over-valuation in companies and a desire to do huge financing rounds to be perceived as the “knock-out winner.” Grow or die. million and then $5.9

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2 Meanwhile in Europe. Many of these businesses operate in the digital realm and have seen limited impact on revenues – some have even seen their revenues explode VC Backed Startups and PPP: Do You Really Need It? Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. These results are consistent for both US-based and Europe-based VC firms.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. We particularly help companies in winning revenue from our LP network and raising capital for subsequent rounds from top-tier late-stage investors. BRK-A); and Prospect Capital Corp.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

He said that Western Europe is the most behind in the world at realizing this. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. Maybe it is the soft crackle of an LP record that has enabled vinyl LP sales to increase year on year for the past 19.

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