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Introducing Circulate: Creating Better Networks for Future Founders from Black and Other Underrepresented Communities

This is going to be BIG.

One of the core beliefs that I had when I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures was that most of the next 50-100 important companies to be built in New York City were going to be started by people not on most VC’s radars today. These resources are often walled off within existing professional networks that lack diversity.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring.

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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

Gust

Wilmington Investor Network. Central Texas Angel Network. Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. increasing. DC Dinner Clubs.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Texas cities have traditionally been competitive, but now is the time to be collaborative. We need to help talent, startups, mentors, investors and opportunities flow freely between all of the major cities. The next time we host it in Austin, we will invite venture capitalists from Houston. It’s not Silicon Valley.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

It’s something any public transportation rider in New York City intuitively understands—buses are more efficient and cheaper means of moving people by all measurements such as cost and energy. As a vertical take off and landing vehicle (VTOL) whose engines turn, you need little more than a helipad or an empty lot.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.