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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. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

in Ireland—despite being behind a paywall. Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. At the same time, organic traffic, for many news sites, isn’t the primary acquisition source, in part because most news-related queries are new and never searched before.

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). This is probably just after the series A in my opinion – where you’re doing perhaps $300k-$1m per month in revenue. 3) So, where should you start a company today?

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). This is probably just after the series A in my opinion – where you’re doing perhaps $300k-$1m per month in revenue. 3) So, where should you start a company today?

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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