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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . Here are four templates you can use for better understanding RBI: .

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

I will leave it to law professor Eric Goldman to articulate better than I could why “ this law mortally threatens the entire UGC community.” As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA.

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