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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category. Equity Ownership.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). This Stanford class will introduce management tools for entrepreneurs. Evangelism vs. existing need or category?

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Beware The Consultant

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Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Given all the demands on your time, the hours spent educating a consultant regarding your business are costly. Thanks for visiting! Once you obtain funding, it will be worse than hitting the Lottery.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) Categories: Programming, Satire Tags: Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment [.]. Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place.

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