Business Model Cofounder Finance Syndication 
View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment. But in a FOMO world, more investors are willing to take a chance on a founder that they don’t know, but seems to match some of the heuristics of other high quality founders. Business Models and Sectors. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
The following is a condensed explanation of seed funding: Seed money is a form of early-stage financing that new businesses receive from investors in exchange for a share of ownership in the company. The term “seed financing” refers to the stage of funding that comes from first equity.
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David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.
David Teten
JANUARY 11, 2020
In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co.
Rob Go
JANUARY 7, 2013
As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. It’s an old fashioned idea, but it’s what we would want if we were founders taking capital from a VC, so that’s the model that works for us. Founders: Repeat Founders: 8. Consumer: 9.
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. The title is not important; the work they do is.
Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
Financing, that is.I Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. ProfessorVC.
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