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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

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. VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. 2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity).

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels.

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Developer Funding – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money (Google I/O Panel)

VC Cafe

Kevin – consumer Internet plays, often times they don’t have a business model. Development for equity. Rick – I first see if I like the team, how are they going to start targeting the market they think they can address. You don’t need all of them, you can have a couple. Including founders [link].

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