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Do venture capital firms or private equity funds offer debt financing for startups?

Gust

'The direct answer to your question is NO, VC and PE funds do not provide debt financing for any companies. Their entire business model is based on investing in companies that can potentially offer very high returns. For venture capital, this is typically ten times the invested capital, and those returns can only be achieved through equity appreciation, not debt service.

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Jac Holzman

Derek Sivers

I met Jac Holzman the same day I met Bill Gates, but Jac made a much bigger impression, and he’s been my friend and mentor ever since. Jac Holzman is a living legend. He founded Elektra Records in 1950. (Yeah! 1950! Let that soak in a minute. That’s years before rock music was even invented!) He signed artists like The Doors, Carly Simon, Harry Chapin, and Judy Collins to their first record deal.

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Five Keys to Our Long Term Survival

Berkonomics

'Guest Post by William Fisher. Dave’s Note: William Fisher is CEO of Quicksilver Software, a software and Internet game development company in Southern California. Bill has survived multiple cycles in the game industry, and writes here his thoughts about his longevity in a volatile niche. I think the number one factor in my endurance is building strong relationships with members of my team, so that they are supportive when things go badly, as they sometimes do in this business.

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What is the maximum amount of money a pre-revenue mobile Internet startup can expect to raise from the VCs?

Gust

'To start with, a pre-revenue mobile company cannot expect to raise anything from “the VCs” Venture capital funds invest in only one out of every 400 companies seeking funding, so the odds of your particular startup getting funded are astronomically against you. Next, venture capital funds invest primarily in later stage companies that have already shown significant indications of success (known in the industry as “traction” ) Of the roughy $20 billion invested eve

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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7 Questions Test Entrepreneur Focus Before Funding

Gust

'Image via Entrepreneur.com. The first question most people seem to ask when contemplating a new startup is where they will get investor money. That’s certainly a valid question, but all the money in the world won’t make your business work if you don’t have a plan to use it, or hate what you are doing. I suggest that there are several important questions before assuming that funding is the gate to your success.