Business Model Equity Finance Silicon Valley 
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 7, 2016
The rub is that a startup likely has the ideas to take it straight to the top, but it’s also likely that the company lacks the business skills to make it truly successful. A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. The solution: Startup Labs.
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
business models. But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. Perhaps it’s the weather.
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Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
When you accept outside money, particularly a private equity (PE) investment, however, that changes. In this article, I’ll provide some personal stories of how investors have navigated the balance between raising private equity capital and not losing control of their startup. You make all the decisions, when you want, how you want.
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
business models. But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. Perhaps it’s the weather.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Unlike many RBI investors, a full 50% of our investment activity is in non-tech businesses.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. VCs ONLY want to invest in momentum deals, which means you already have serious customer validation and traction and you are looking to raise money to scale your business. I call it drip-financing. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model. times the last whole business and credit cycle. .&# Warning sign? At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?
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