Cap Table Cofounder Dilution Marketing 
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 18, 2024
Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. While they might be generally smart, they’re unsophisticated investors who don’t know what the market is for where you are. Role When I was a lowly Analyst at Union Square Ventures, I had so many ideas for the founders we worked with.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.
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David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. For RBI, return caps of 1.2x-1.8x
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 8, 2023
Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Soft Acquisition Market. Whatever gets reported is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 21, 2013
Neil Rimer is a Partner and co-founder of Index Ventures. Yet, surprisingly, we continue to come across founders who have made significant mistakes in their early capital raises that we suspect go against their own instincts and jeopardize the foundations of the businesses they are building.
David Teten
AUGUST 21, 2019
Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. Less or no dilution. But should they?
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder?
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