SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Solving the "marketplace" business model - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 10, 2010 A sizable percentage of Capital Factory startup submissions take the form of the "marketplace." " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.

Startup 327

Startup Business Model Lean Russia 327

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

While VCs get management fees to pay the bills, it is the carried interest portion or % of profits that VCs receive that really drives our thinking and aligns our economics with performance. We make money when our LPs make money which means that the companies we fund and entrepreneurs that we back need to be successful.

LP 60

LP Private Equity Due Diligence Venture Capital 60

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. The main ones include: Fund of Funds (FoFs). FoFs take capital from institutions, wealthy families, and others, and then invest it in a basket of underlying VC funds.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. The main ones include: Fund of Funds (FoFs). FoFs take capital from institutions, wealthy families, and others, and then invest it in a basket of underlying VC funds.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279