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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

In a nascent field like entrepreneurial ecosystem building, practitioner examples are rare and we were not going to pass up the opportunity to speak to four representatives of this pilot project to learn more about: What gave rise to the need of hiring an ecosystem builder. River and bridges in Danville. Challenges.

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

So how is Funders Club different than other VCs? And so we have this network effect that we're bringing to venture capital, and that's one way that we're significantly different: traditionally VC has always been a very human capital focused, typical VC firms don't look at that as a product opportunity.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

If our ultimate objective is to understand the current state of opportunity and its expansion over time, we need to, in the words of John Doerr , measure what matters : representation in early-stage financing. for women founders and the overall first-financing market, respectively, for 2015-2020.². We need better funder-side reporting.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc