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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Some firms provide tools to model investment, e.g., Capital’s Cost of Equity estimator ; Lighter Capital’s Cost of Capital Calculator ; Indie VC’s Cap Table Comparison Model ; 645 Ventures’ cap table simulator ; and Bootstrapp.co’s Comprehensive Cost of Capital Calculator.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1

venturehacks.com

Some entrepreneurs set up quarterly advisory board meetings and that probably works well for them. But we find savvy entrepreneurs tend to be transactional—they ping their advisors as needed and skip the advisory board meetings. SKMurphy » Common Questions about Advisory Boards. // Nov 24, 2008 at 7:27 pm. [.]

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

venturehacks.com

Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. But investors don’t take these mock advisory boards seriously. SKMurphy » Common Questions about Advisory Boards - Jun 2, 2009 [.]