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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? Simple Agile Product Development. More to come. Isaac Sacolick. at 8:15 AM.

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How to Land a $5m Investment by Getting Product-Market Fit

Up and Running

We ended up receiving a $5m term sheet from investors, dozens of government customers from all across the western United States, and several offers to acquire us for 10x the initial investment. Most of them didn’t even think they had a problem to warrant a need for our tech. Getting there was a struggle. Learning Lesson.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Many industries are very difficult to penetrate from the outside, e.g. healthcare, education, government services, and more. Ideally, the economics of a development investment look like those of a cash investment; typically, a seed investor will get no more than about 20% of a company for his capital. Rock Health).

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Loyalty is not something that people distribute to all and any that they come into contact with regardless of warrant. You earned their loyalty. It's all about respect.

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