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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" Establish a customer advisory board. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. should the test subjects be part of the customer advisory board? Financial leverage refers to investing that is supplemented by borrowed money.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Advisory Board. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Why Your Startup Should Be Involved in Open Source - ReadWriteStart , September 15, 2010 Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?", Carpe Diem. What Does a CEO Do, Anyway?