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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

In exchange for attending an accelerator, startups give up 5% to 10% of their company’s equity. Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. In return for the lower risk, a venture studio typically takes a larger percentage of equity. Why Would an Entrepreneur Join a Venture Studio?

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. From traditional equity VC, Flexible VC borrows the option to pursue and reap the rewards of an outsized exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share.

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Why We Invested in Toya

VC Cafe

Toya is a female-led studio partnering with the biggest platforms in the gaming industry to develop and promote games that reflect equal opportunities, diverse characters, and more dynamic storylines across the gender spectrum. It takes a LOT of courage to say no to potential revenue, especially in the very early stages of a startup.

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Preparing For An Acquisition

YoungUpstarts

by Jeff Stark, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo. Watch out for complex areas such as accounting for revenue, inventory, contingencies, equity instruments and consolidation. When using others (employees, contractors, third parties) to develop your technology, be sure that ownership of IP is assigned to the company.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. I mentioned that we sold our position in Kyriba for > $1 billion but when we invested it had virtually no revenue. Over the past 2.5 Over the past 2.5

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being an Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being a long-term partner is important to us since doing business online necessitates ongoing website and online marketing maintenance and improvement. When we work with our customers, we become their business partners and assist them expand their companies over time. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #16- 16- Helping people.