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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Another tool is NoteGenie.io.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process. Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago. All Rights Reserved.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. . From a startup’s point of view, Abaca helps a company identify in a standardized way their level of development. 3) Raise capital.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

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and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. All Rights Reserved.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

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After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. million in venture financing. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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