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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Often times when companies raise “bridgefinancing (this is money from internal investors. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Feenix Venture Partners has a unique investment model that couples investment capital with payment processing services.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

venturehacks.com

Do you mean the shares go to the founders? That does work if the company gets sold before another round of financing. But if you do another round of financing first, those unallocated shares will go into a new option pool. What if the founder already included an option pool in the existing shares outstanding?