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Building the Best Seed Syndicates

View from Seed

At this point, founders find themselves in a luxurious situation of being able to build the best possible syndicate. It’s not necessary to nail down every element of your syndicate simultaneously. In order to accomplish the things above, you will probably want to include more than 1–2 investors on your cap table.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Typical business stage. An already proven business model and its already valuable assets. Typical business model. Most Flexible VCs lead rounds and often take 100% of the round to mitigate this risk.

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

David Teten

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field.