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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 was also used as a project management tool & document storage system for the largest private bank in Europe who even stored images of their bank vaults on our servers. Grow or die. million and then $5.9 Not Google.

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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. Send Text messaging for rapid responses.

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

VC Cafe

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. On the health front, there are signs of recovery.

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

David Teten

We particularly help companies in winning revenue from our LP network and raising capital for subsequent rounds from top-tier late-stage investors. HOF Capital provides hands-on support through our in-house team, plus a network of outside mentors who work with portfolio companies on an as-needed basis.

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Kernel column: The LP update meeting

The Equity Kicker

The LP Update Meeting. I’m just back from our semi-annual update to the LPs in one of our funds, and I thought I would share the experience with you all. We have around a dozen LP update meetings a year across our four funds and they are the most important moments of contact we have with our investors.

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