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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. There’s been lots of buzz for the need for a shared, distributed ledger but 2018 is the year we see production level use cases in the wild.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Early liquidity.

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The Lightspeed Batphone?—?Welcome Brian Kasser and Meredith Kendall

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He received his MBA in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Meredith Kendall was Head of Communications at Hulu where she led external communications for the company across key areas including corporate, content, product, advertising and distribution. subscriber base to over six million users.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

Advisory board agreements. Strategic partnership or distribution agreements. Most startups will involve legal counsel whenever doing anything involving the company’s securities, such as adopting a stock option plan , making grants under the plan, issuing convertible notes in a financing round , and so forth.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

And unlike other fintech companies that are primarily equity-financed, we raise capital by offering a best in class savings product to consumers (a 1 month renewable CD that pays 6% APY), which in turn allows us to meet our short term capital needs required for loan origination. English, Chinese and Spanish are already being translated:).

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *.