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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. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6%

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The Importance of Bridge Funding for StartUps

The Startup Magazine

For example, if your company is already providing regular services to customers and clients, interruptions to these services can cause you to lose market share, making it much more difficult for you to honour commitments to your main funding partners. For most start-ups, the first year is an absolutely critical period.

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Startups and VCs Should Avoid “Pier” Funding

Both Sides of the Table

VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). They trust the judgment of the VCs to source, finance, help manage and then create some sort of exit for the investments that they make. You might have legitimate concerns that warrant not funding the ongoing operations.

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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. Klarna is apparently the first European board for legendary Sequoia partner, Michael Moritz. Short answer: no.

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The Basics of Small Business Loans [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

I think that the team from Palo Alto Software, I think I saw some partners that are in this area that just focus on that early stage business. They’re a great partner of ours, for the most part have been doing a lot for free for startups to give them access to angel investment. Want to open up a franchise and be in financing.