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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Rational burn profile, up to 50% of revenue at close, scaling down. Bigfoot Capital.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. When you get customer scale and raise a large financing round , take the battle to the incumbents. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. When you get customer scale and raise a large financing round , take the battle to the incumbents. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

ReadWriteStart

To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year. That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). His firm invests in four. Investors are optional in this equation.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Competitive industries, such as insurance, travel, and finance are especially susceptible. When the fraud hit, that fell to just a few hundred pounds of revenue a day and a ton of wasted spend. For example, if you suddenly notice hundreds of clicks from rural Idaho—and you sell beachwear—you can block that set of addresses.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing? I just thought it was a good question to set the context of lean planning and when somebody should use it, because so many of our webinar attendees are in the process of getting financing. It is a very difficult proposition.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

M&A and Finance. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Finance/Accounting. Assn/Non-Profit. B2B: Business Media. City & Regionals. CMS Insights. Consumer Media.