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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. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. We were able to raise a Seed round from Bessemer Venture Partners on a powerpoint idea, and never found the repeatable customer model. Did the VC’s like your team ?

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startups that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). Marketing first. Product second.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). Marketing first. Product second.

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