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How and Why You Should Validate Your App Idea Before You Build

Up and Running

It worked by enticing app users to recycle, which earned them points they could redeem for rewards from local businesses. The end user of the application was those who recycled, however, the recycling and reward redemption process required partnerships with recycling facilities, local businesses, and government agencies.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. redemption, revenue share, etc.) IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability.

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

I originally got to thinking about this when I received a 485 page information statement on a previously announced merger between Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial. I was a seed investor in Clean Power Finance (CPF), which subsequently raised $90M+ in venture funding and over $1 billion in project and debt financing.

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