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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

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. An industry agnostic studio , such as Rocket Internet , is a standalone venture studio that generates its own ideas and IP and is industry and market agnostic.

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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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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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Announcing K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed stage fund

K9 Ventures

Either protectable IP or at least hard IP. Direct Revenue : The company must have a direct revenue model. I would like to take a moment to thank K9′s Limited Partners for their support of this first fund. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth.