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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. I asked Brian Parks, Managing Partner, Bigfoot Capital, about the impact of RBI on traditional VC. Investor prospectus . of founders raise VC; the other 99.4% One-Page Term Sheet.

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Thinking of exiting your business? Explore every option

The Next Web

Empower your management team. Where you can, engage with your management team, empowering and challenging them to step up to running the business while the leadership team focuses on the sale process. During the trade sale process, management should be readily available to respond to queries from potential buyers.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

The skills required range from organizational design to performance management. CEOs who excel at board management can “succeed” by setting objectives artificially low. Great CEOs who fail to pay attention to board management can “fail” by setting objectives too high. Tags: Companies Leadership Management.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

Helmed by husband-and-wife team Stuart (Director of Sales and Marketing) and Emily (Managing Director, Board Chair, and Chief Ice Cream Inventor) Philips, during 2015 and 2016 Red Wagon is preparing for a big “regional-national” leap in production and distribution—in part by taking advantage of a new public investing program.

Oregon 60
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John Mack on the inside of the financial crisis

VC Adventure

Reading (or trying to read, at least) and mark up a prospectus. He introduces himself and picks up the conference phone: “Barbara [I'm making that up - I can't remember his assistant's name], Seth Levine is on his way up – can you please make him comfortable in my office.&# Mack’s office was probably 8 times that size.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

The law would have the effect of allowing companies to stay private longer, deferring the significant expense, management distraction and public disclosure of financial and operating data involved in the IPO process. targets the Exchange Act requirement that is reportedly forcing Facebook to go public in early 2012.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I went to the University of Queensland and studied for a business management degree. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. But for all this to happen, a really key point is to have a really good prospectus.