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

David Teten VC

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010.

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Mendel raises $18M to tease out data structure from medicine’s disparate document trove

TechCrunch

It’s also going to be using the funding to hire more talent — technical and support — for its two offices, in San Jose, California and Cairo, Egypt. The partnership with Mendel will mean that those eFaxes will now be “read” and digitized and ingested into wider platforms to tap that data in a more useful way.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it?

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. And most of us start with zero training. Painting with Numbers , by Randall Bolten.

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Important Updates for Startups on the PPP and the CARES Act

Dream It

Kathryn (attorney from PilieroMazza) : Most banks are opening applications today, though a few rolled out last Friday with mixed success. The whole program has been designed to provide financing as quickly as possible. blocking a quorum, or preventing a shareholder/board action).

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. Some former executives believe that Micromax’s founders could have handled the situation better if they had given a free hand to others coming on board.