Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Mezzanine lending (a rough comparable) has a 18-23% required rate of return. Some players have proposed templates: Earnest Capital Shared Earnings Agreement v1.3. to 15.0%.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The other major trend seems to be pulling in the opposite direction.

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