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

David Teten VC

2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. He said, “We estimate that annual RBI market activity has grown 10x in the last decade, from two dozen deals a year in 2010 to upwards of 200 new company fundings completed in 2018.” The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy.

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Project Octane: Hustle & Heart

Entrepreneurs' Organization

ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. Our shared commitment to unapologetically innovate formed the framework for our business. Moranne and I are Millennials, as are most of our staff, so social media, digital strategy and technology is integral to everything we do.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). Prior to Prelude Ventures, Victoria worked on climate change strategy at BCG and started an agriculture supply chain company. Earlier, she led Finance at a major solar manufacturer.

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Meme Mapping: Learn to Run Better Creative Tests by Reverse-Engineering Hollywood

Reforge

Most every marketer is familiar with A/B testing, but few have a consistent framework for prioritizing what to test. However the ability to instantly produce any creative you can imagine — for next to zero cost — only makes creative testing strategy even more important. He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. How to monetize open source There are multiple strategies for earning money from open source. Take PostCSS, a widely popular CSS framework built by Andrey Sitnik. Let’s start with a simple one: crowdfunding and donations.

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

TechCrunch

Specifically, I hoped to join a company with a very strong engineering and product management culture that needed a CEO with strategy, vision, business development, fundraising and team-building expertise. No choice we make will be perfect, and all the frameworks in the world won’t eliminate risk entirely.

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Daily Crunch: Raise now, pay later: $800M funding round slashes Klarna’s valuation by 85%

TechCrunch

They aren’t really old enough to remember the absolute horror of watching stocks and investments tank during the 2007–2010 economic downturn, but 2022’s environment is giving them a taste of that. Turn your startup’s pricing strategy into a powerful growth lever. billion, Paul writes. Everybody wants you : And by “you,” we mean Gen Z.