David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

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? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. If I'm ever going to find and support true innovation, I've got to make it a practice to get outside of myself and my own head--and continue to be open, no matter how heads down I am in my own work. 1) Run faster.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Venture Capital.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Billion in VC funding. the company raised a strong $3.3M

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. If you want to solve a technical problem, get a group together and do it as open source.”. #1

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. New York City. New York, New York.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

I'm talking about innovation in New York City and a very basic thought exercise. Would you stay on the venture capital side? There are at least three groups that I know of in the YC/Techstars vein that are eying New York City. Plus, it's something I really love doing. Run an accelerator/incubator?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. The next round of funding is the one in which you might deal with actual venture capital firms. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. VCs are slow tomake up their minds.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business. As part of our work leading into the new fund, we went on a listening tour - talking to founders about what they want and need from their venture capital partners.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

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. As the third U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

Everyday, lots of people fall in love and get married—even in big, unfriendly cities like New York. I mean, they spend all sorts of pro-bono hours contributing to open source projects, right? Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. They hire hackers, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

The community they had developed was extremely valuable and is what differentiated StackOverflow from the free, open source alternatives that were created in response to StackExchange. None are in Silicon Valley, one is in New York City, they’re spread out across the world (France, Estonia, St.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company. His argument doesn’t bode well for start-ups in the dog-eat-dog world of today’s high tech economy or for its workforce.

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