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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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Mobile Spinach – Mobile Commerce And Group-Buying Platform

YoungUpstarts

This makes redemption quick and convenient, without the hassle of showing printed emails or other methods employed by traditional group-buying sites. Mobile Spinach was founded in 2010 by entrepreneurs John Vitti, Antonio Vitti, and Steve Lewis.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Post Brexit thoughts – we need leaders

The Equity Kicker

Their anger and fear is increasing the uncertainty we’re suffering from which is causing more redemptions, which is, in turn, increasing the anger and fear, and I could make a similar argument about sterling’s depreciation. In the case of Forward Partners nothing has changed.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

If you don’t, please educate yourself on this site, Venture Hacks and the term sheet series by Brad Feld/Jason Mendelson, among other places. If you really want to understand the nuances in venture capital financing documents, please review the NVCA model venture capital financing documents. . under $500K).

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Why We Must Have Zero Tolerance for Sexual Misconduct in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I titled this post “We Must Have Zero Tolerance in Venture Capital” but of course I could just say “zero tolerance anywhere” because that’s true. Victims must always deserve more respect than a flawed human being in search of redemption. Men must speak up, too. As a VC let me specifically just speak out for our industry.

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Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO

abovethecrowd.com

As another example, consider that most public marketplace companies, such as ebay or GrubHub, report revenues on a “net” basis rather than gross (approximately 80-90% of revenues go to supplier partners, so this is the proper conservative representation). We are in a risk bubble.

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