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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Novel Growth Partners, Lighter Capital, Rev Up, Corl, Flow Capital. Of the Inc.

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The Community Comeback: 14 Ways Local Leaders Are Reshaping America

YoungUpstarts

They’re using community dashboards to keep critical metrics front and center. Just like a company, a community needs objective metrics to know how healthy they are, to identify areas that need improvement, and to gauge progress over time. They’re partnering with government the right way. .

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Don't forget to look at venture debt when raising a new round

BeyondVC

In addition, while most associate venture debt with investments in companies with core technology, more and more venture debt firms are back and willing to offer capital to earlier stage web-based companies with no financial covenants and MAC (material adverse change) clauses.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

While this is indeed the metric that matters most to shareholders, its not terribly useful as a measure of productivity, especially daily or hourly productivity. Prosperity Covenant , Tom Walker. Overall, most companies seem to have fallen to a least-common-denominator measure of team output. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada.