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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

David Teten

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. ” .

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Our categorization is not a technical one. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. “Too

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. Daymond offered to be an advisor. The cofounder was charismatic and persuasive and asking for $85k for 12% of the company. The two founders invested $40k in the business, and plan to license it rather than manufacture it because manufacturing seems too hard.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Press and analysts characterized LinkedIn in one of two ways: “LinkedIn is an interesting niche that might be worth paying attention to” or “LinkedIn is the Friendster for business”. we had no revenue. Investors see a lot of pitches.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

BeyondVC

Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ). There were lots of robots, aerial shows with model planes and helicopters, great discussions on current technology trends, and of course, plenty of beer and laughs. It is also clear that the VC model is broken and needs to change.