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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? Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Client work serves as an additional source of revenue to form new startups. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources. It also provides critical domain experience in a variety of business sectors.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams. He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries). The African Boy Who Could.

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Salto - Bringing DevOps to Cloud App Configuration

Cracking the Code

Given how complex some of these cloud application implementations and configurations are, the revenue pool is vast. To provide more color, the global Salesforce Services market alone is estimated at $14.5bn today, with Salesforce itself earning approximately $1bn in service revenues in the last year. Enter Salto.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: ROBOAMP

Austin Startup

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series returns this week with the Founder and CEO of ROBOAMP : Roberto Inetti. They offer improved SEO, maximized revenue and ROI with ads and landing pages, higher performance, and richer UX— all while providing flexibility and major results. Closing our pre-seed round is very important.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. At Bazaarvoice, we practiced vulnerability by reading books like Fierce Conversations and having training programs around them.

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