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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. —> Individual company bankruptcy risk —-> Traditional Equity VC . Typical business stage. An already proven business model and its already valuable assets. Typical business model.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

View from Seed

note: We’d like to be extra clear that founders should not take on venture debt if they don’t have 100% visibility into repaying the loan, as banks that need to recoup their loan my force the company or you as the guarantor into liquidation or bankruptcy. Business model? Traction and revenue?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices.