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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed. We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company. Details here.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. I travelled all over the world wherever business deals were happening, gained tremendous experience and exposure to the Corporate landscape, and learned invaluable life lessons in my career. Same as above.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Michael Kassing.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Yes, the infrastructure is cheap (to start), but the human costs have gone up dramatically. In order for a company to attract a full Seed round ($2M – $3M), that company needs to show an almost completed product, an advanced prototype, or some kind of traction/demand metrics. Q: How are most Pre-Seed deals structured?