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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

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The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table?

Version One Ventures

How do you decide who you should have in your cap table? But we plan to “formalize” our learnings and best practices on board meetings, metrics, building purposeful culture (including diversity and inclusion), compensation, coaches, hiring checklists for specific roles, list of best service providers and more.