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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Benefits: Non-dilutive, flexible credit offerings that fit SMB or enterprise SaaS. Repaid 12-36 months with ability to prepay at reduced cost. In a situation where Pied Piper’s revenue growth exceeds expectations, prepayment discounts are built into the structure, lowering the cost of capital.”. Capital need of up to $1.5M

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. A: Tech is a $5tn industry, and is only a small % of total GDP.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. A: Tech is a $5tn industry, and is only a small % of total GDP.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. A: Tech is a $5tn industry, and is only a small % of total GDP.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months. Ever-more artists and authors are petitioning them.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed.

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Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability

Duct Tape Marketing

So when we strip out pass through, and then we measure the margin on that pass through, it's almost like we have two layers of cost of good sold, which is a concept that a lot of accountants kind of struggle with. And that's mostly gonna be the labor cost of the work that we do for clients. I like actually selling results.