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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. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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Announcing K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed stage fund

K9 Ventures

– a seed-stage fund. is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. Either protectable IP or at least hard IP. I would like to take a moment to thank K9′s Limited Partners for their support of this first fund. K9 Ventures, L.P.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP. As a VC, this is an area we’re actively look at Remagine Ventures – If you’re building one of these at the pre-seed stage, I’d love to get in touch. ” Eric Feng.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . We recently led a large seed round for an autonomous vehicle company called Optimus Ride. 4) Are these investment partners for the long haul?

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More Words of Wisdom from Marc Andreessen

Scott Edward Walker

In this fascinating interview by Dave McClure , the founding general partner of 500 Startups , Marc shares some solid nuggets for entrepreneurs, including the following: “It’s very hard to give general advice to startups because it’s very specific to the circumstance.” (at 15:35). “I IP integrity is still a challenge.” (at

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. Will try and fix today.

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