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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Venture Capital. Perhaps it was just who I was meeting, but for a country so focused on innovation and startups the lack of venture capitalists was noticeable. Partially due to a lack of bankruptcy or commercial courts, the bankruptcy process in Chile is draconian. Filed under: Teaching , Venture Capital.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? By comparison, traditional VC has a bankruptcy rate of 30-40%.

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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. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Andressen Horowitz,ff Venture Capital,HOF Capital, Sequoia .

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. He penned a great piece on the LA tech community here in Forbes. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. Not bad, hey? Both companies were in Los Angeles.

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Ample Hills Bankruptcy and Recovery: What Happened and What's Next for a Beloved Brand

This is going to be BIG.

They decided to raise venture capital money in order to build a factory, open new stores, and take advantage of their newfound fame to go into wholesale. The answer, unfortunately, was to declare bankruptcy. Prime locations were beating down their door for expansion. That doesn’t mean Ample Hills is going away—we hope.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. 1) Manage the firm .

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?