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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). I like technical founders so this wasn’t an issue.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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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 RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. Srivastava , chief data scientist at Verizon. Ashok Srivastava. Evangelos : Yes.

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Why We Invested in Flyp: Unlocking Recommerce Supply

View from Seed

The first is environmental – the fashion industry alone contributes to more than 10% of global carbon emissions, so being able to save millions of items from ending up in landfills and recirculating them is fundamental. Beyond that, however, are economic and even social causes.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

View from Seed

What is it, and how should founders think about it? note: We’d like to be extra clear that founders should not take on venture debt if they don’t have 100% visibility into repaying the loan, as banks that need to recoup their loan my force the company or you as the guarantor into liquidation or bankruptcy.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. We three partners are working hard. We have a long way to go baby!