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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Their financial models are based on membership fees that grant access to a shared coworking space, resources, and access to other founders and operational expertise. Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio.

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

David Teten

But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. So we think about scaling a lot.

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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. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%