article thumbnail

Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

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. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

article thumbnail

Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

But that’s where it gets interesting, because whether or not you could replicate Gust’s platform… It’s irrelevant: despite the award-winning platform and the technology under the hood, Gust’s primary advantage is NOT in our engineering, surprising though that may seem.

Belarus 107
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

Both Sides of the Table

Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany.

Ireland 319
article thumbnail

My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23.

article thumbnail

VC Cafe Turns 9

VC Cafe

Eating my own dogfood - I was obsessed with startups and venture capital… and I talked to a lot of people and picked up nuggets along the process. For me, VC Cafe is one of those things and being included in the Top 50 blogs in Venture Capital (#4!) ” the post was also picked up by Venturebeat.

article thumbnail

Regional Policy Makers in Europe Call for More Entrepreneurship

Campus Entrepreneurship

Expanding the Enterprise Europe Network’s (EEN) range of services including advice on scaling up and cooperating more with local business incubators, science and technology parks. Welcomes the EC’s suggestions to facilitate access to finance through: Establishing a European venture capital fund of funds.

Europe 28
article thumbnail

Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands. Dublin, Ireland.