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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Early liquidity.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. When it comes to governance, putting operating heads on portfolio company boards hasn’t worked. I don’t think we are.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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