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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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How and Why the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator is Different

View from Seed

However, in our conversations over the past few weeks with both Founder applicants and others in the ecosystem (like co-investors), it became apparent that some of the assumptions about what an accelerator is and how ours is different wasn’t fully appreciated from our original Accelerator blog post.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Just happened to run across your blog after our call, and had a good laugh over this story! Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Blog Archive.

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

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. See their blog post on multiples.). The simplest way to track a company’s performance: have them give you access to their internal metrics dashboard. 7) Negotiate .

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Much easier than writing a guest blog post, you get some high quality content. Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. Podcast are really hot, right? But you know what’s also really hot? Think about it.