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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. – Launch a venture capital fund of funds. Previously posted on PEHub.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Our categorization is not a technical one. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. Option Two: Once your product or service is up and running and gaining traction.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. For venture capital, right?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. We’ll update this post with links to his further installments.