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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade. Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

We found six categories of VC theses, plus a 7th: the non-thesis. of venture capital deals. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an 8th: the non-thesis. 2) Business model-defined funds. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless.

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How to Pitch to Investors in 10 Minutes and Get Funded

Up and Running

I know what it’s like to pitch to investors—both angels and venture capitalists. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Below is a format I’ve successfully used for my own ventures, and to help many other first-time startup CEOs raise investment capital.

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

David Teten

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Examples: best practices on launching a new VC fund , microcredentials for new VCs.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.