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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Typical business stage. An already proven business model and its already valuable assets. Typical business model.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable. They knew how to execute the current business model. Lessons Learned.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

His latest venture, Bharosa, was sold to Oracle for a 6X multiple in 3 years to his angel investors, a sweet close to triple digit IRR. His goal in building the company was to spend 3 years building value and find a good home for the engineers and product. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. See Page 269. :). So how can you use your own data? And other such things.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

. – Indiegogo.com is a crowd-funding platform allowing contributors to empower hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers – and many more – to bring their dreams to life. – Clarity.com proactively advises you on managing your personal finances efficiently. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .