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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. 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. Equity Ownership. Yes, typically preferred equity. Of the Inc. Example VC.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Focus on the partner you would be working with. One issue he talked about was working with partners. I also like to work with partners. But I also know it’s not realistic for the partners to do all of the work.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K). “ .

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Sorkin and Smith (two very prominent Cornellians)

ithacaVC

Andrew reprinted a memo in Dealbook today that Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, wrote to his firm’s employees over the weekend. He said, “We must discover the redemptive power of love. Terrible racist acts have stunned most of us over the last few weeks. If you have not already read the memo, please read it.

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Post Brexit thoughts – we need leaders

The Equity Kicker

Their anger and fear is increasing the uncertainty we’re suffering from which is causing more redemptions, which is, in turn, increasing the anger and fear, and I could make a similar argument about sterling’s depreciation. In the case of Forward Partners nothing has changed.

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

Musk was the early winner taking the CEO role (for a brief period) in the merged company and the largest equity stake as well. I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity. Both companies offered home security and automation services through partners.

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