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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Balletic Foods

View from Seed

Founders: Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazi. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . She has previously co-founded the SVCMS group, an organization hosting the Cultured Meat Symposium and the Cultured Meat and Future Food Show. Company: Balletic Foods. ” – David Beisel.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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15 steps to start your own tech business: Part 1

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. The skillset of a founder often defines the focus and the culture of a company. So, as an aspiring founder, invest your time and energy in identifying your talents and then follow your passion. TU München.

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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

Both Sides of the Table

When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. We hired people to run the UK and Germany. I did almost every VC meeting myself save for when one of my co-founders, Tim Barker, was in town.

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Cracking the Code - Untitled Article

Cracking the Code

For early stage companies, the stakes are even higher, and finding a great country manager is the single most important element of a successful launch. PostoInAuto’s founder, Olivier Bremer, was terribly talented, but his business was not at a point where he could raise a significant investment.

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