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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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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

4- Description of our software. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Quantstamp

Austin Startup

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” While regular software handles data, DeFi handles money (digital money). Tell us about something you love. I love to travel.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; 406 Ventures.

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SaaS Wars: Europe Awakens

Cracking the Code

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. Findings were presented at SaaStock 2016- Software is eating the world, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is eating software.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. Our circumstances were unique and your mileage will vary.