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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

—– Versatile Venture Capital is a new venture capital fund specializing in companies targeting early profitability, based in New York City. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity, including Flexible VC. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent.

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Acquihires 101: Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

How is the Deal Structured? The deal is typically structured as an asset purchase (as opposed to a stock purchase or merger) — though the acquirer often does not actually want the startup’s IP and/or other assets. The appeal from the startup’s perspective is a “soft landing.”.

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