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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Rational burn profile, up to 50% of revenue at close, scaling down. Alternative Capital. “

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

Compounding is the ability of an asset to generate earnings that are reinvested in order to generate exponential revenue growth. It has never paid out dividends, and clocks around $200 billion in revenue. In 2017, Atlassian paid $425 million to acquire Trello, even though Trello only made about $3.5 Alpha generation.

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5 Key Tests When Assessing Your Business Idea

YoungUpstarts

If a company is doing this, it is typically doubling in revenue every year for three to five years, and sometimes longer. Supergrowers” – companies whose growth was greater than 60 percent when they reached $100 million in revenues – were eight times more likely to reach $1 billion in revenues than those growing less than 20 percent. (5)

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 in 2013 to 1.43

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Totem is an operating system that makes investors smarter by helping them leverage their knowledge, relationships & insights.