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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

YoungUpstarts

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. and profits! Why does all this matter?

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. 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? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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The Second VC Round – A True Test of Scalability

Scalable Startup

Accel Partners. Greylock Partners. Meritech Capital Partners. The second round can also be a mezzanine, or pre-IPO round, or even the IPO itself. In one scenario in my career I was with a company that had taken only one round of equity financing. Series A, 5/05 20. Mark Pincus. Reid Hoffman. Series B, 4/06 21.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. Maybe Micro VCs will get larger and emulate a multiple-partner strategy like True Ventures or First Round Capital.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A few more stats make that picture look worse.