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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. 20% initial ownership.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. They intended to get scale for their business by growing in the U.S.

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. Only after we have at least two products scaling successfully in at least two emerging market regions, will we have proven the commercial model for medical device design with and for emerging markets. and Indian companies.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

“As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” Sir Ronald Cohen.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. We had the wrong business model. Post-Mortem Title : Key Lessons from Cryptine Networks’ Failure. Company : Cryptine Networks.