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

David Teten

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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Don’t Pitch A Venture Capitalist Without This Checklist

David Teten

The cover note should include: name, website, location, revenues (if any), detailed financing history (if any), and precise terms on which you are seeking to raise capital. Customer/user. We are particularly focused on low CapEx high operating leverage businesses. ” Investors value getting a sense of your expectations.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. The CEO must set the context that every employee operates within. They embed their quest for intelligence into all of their daily actions from staff meetings to customer meetings to 1:1s.