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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Make The Most Of Your Next VC Pitch By Doing These 10 Things

YoungUpstarts

In the startup world, opportunities are fleeting, and obstacles are ubiquitous. Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Part 7: Revenue Streams in Life Sciences. They used agile engineering perfectly to continually test variants of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP’s) in front of customers often and early to get immediate feedback. Watch their Lesson Learned presentation below.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Last week the teams tested their Revenue Models hypotheses: what are customers willing to pay for? The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.).

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. It was yet another Web 2.0

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP. The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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