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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. 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.” Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Friday Funism – Fear vs Greed

View from Seed

One of the most relevant scenarios that this fear vs. greed lens applies towards is insider-led financings. With the proliferation of multiple seed rounds prior to a Series A, these situations are coming up increasingly in the early stage startup ecosystem. Of course, true motivations cannot be entirely divined.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company. I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. We pulled together about $600K of commitments and interest, for a $500K-target financing round.

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When should you go for equity financing?

Berkonomics

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. If you have a virtual company with your employees working from home locations, as many startups do, it should be the location of the founder. Accelerators.

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Transparent Funding Announcements

Feld Thoughts

No understanding of the human dynamics behind the financing. No underlying metrics that drive the financing. Recently, the gang at SalesLoft told the detailed story of their $10m financing. None of them covered the financing in any way. financing of Mattermark. There’s no real story there.

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

Startup outcomes tend to be very binary. Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now. AngelList (which I remain a big fan) also recently launched a syndicate program. The other investor could''ve certainly lobbied to get me an allocation.

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

Both Sides of the Table

They either do too many seed investments (for which they can spend no quality time with any) or they treat it as an option (“if you succeed come back and see us and we’ll match any term sheet you get&# ) – they view it as a sort of “right of first refusal.&#. The signaling affect is overrated.