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Disturbing

Austin Startup

I must take a moment to acknowledge the many kind greetings upon my return to Atlanta and the many well wishes as I departed Austin. Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. All of them are performing at a very high level, and I take inspiration from them.

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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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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

You know, they're not ready for venture capital, they're not necessarily ready for that first loan. It's a three day accelerator that brings owners through how do you grow revenues. And so we just had an event in Atlanta, for example, with in partnership with MasterCard that brought owners together.

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Introducing my next chapter: Dragon Army

Jeff Hilimire

Today the Atlanta Business Chronicle ran an article about the new company, Dragon Army , that David Cummings , Ryan Tuttle and I are starting. Dragon Army will be based out of Atlanta Tech Village (freaking pumped about that) and we’ll be focusing on mobile games and apps for consumers. and The Coca-Cola Co.,

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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

Gust

To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Companies.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone. Sweat equity is also applicable for someone who is very interested in the subject that you are working on. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. .

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.