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At Last – An Asset Class Achieving High Ownership at Low Cost

Angel Capital Association

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. With numbers like they are reporting, it’s easy to understand why.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

This is currently the most common investment structure: the Flexible VC investor purchases either equity ownership, or a convertible right to equity, and a right to regularly scheduled payments based on a percentage of revenues. Revenue-share investing. Flexible VC offers you this. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. However, I didn’t receive a single response while other founders received VC investment for basic ideas. But what about the demographics of the VC firms?