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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.

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Main Street Hub Lands $14 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

Main Street Hub announced today that it has closed on $14 million in venture capital led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Ireland and Hong Kong. Main Street Hub plans to use the funding to further develop its products and […] The post Main Street Hub Lands $14 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Hairy dentists / Pig farmers – I told the story last night how when I set up my first company the seed investor was a pig farmer from Ireland. It helps that my first company was actually founded in Ireland! That is a true story. but the point is the same. He was a very nice guy but zero value add.

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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.

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On Launching a Brand – Upfront Ventures Four Months In

Both Sides of the Table

Over the next few weeks I’m going to release a few posts on what we believe platform services are and why we believe they’re an important part of the future of venture capital. *. Well, for starters I had two business trips (SF & Dublin, Ireland).

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Ireland Venture Capital/Startup Events

Jason Ball

Continuing with the Startup Events theme , I thought I’d start posting what I’m seeing around Europe. Conor over at Argolon gave me the low-down on what’s happening on the green isle: Dublin has traditionally been the mobile dev centre here (Movidia, Newbay, Xiam, Puca, S3, Rococo etc etc) and I think that is still the case.

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