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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

View from Seed

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. If they can’t, then we want to know more about the existing investor syndicate, so we’re not the only ones at the table. We’d look at a company and the relationship we have with investors, management team, founders, etc.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Early liquidity.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. We know global markets are open — today, for example, everyone in Malaysia could be a DAU for Zoom. You lose way more than you win.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. all Bay Area firms?—?

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Not Building a Unicorn

Austin Startup

Large funds write larger checks because they lack the mental/resource bandwidth to actively manage a portfolio of smaller investments. By driving the valuation up, you’re usually not reducing your dilution in the round; you’re just increasing the size of the check they need to write in order to get to their desired %.