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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. But who is going to run the conference?

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12 ‘flexible VCs’ who operate where equity meets revenue share

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David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. More posts by this contributor. Jamie Finney.

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Freightify lands $2.5M to make rate management easier for freight forwarders

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Freightify , a startup that refers to itself as the “Shopify for maritime freight,” provides white-label rate management and e-booking tools that freight forwarders can use to set up online stores, reducing the time they need to spend on administrative work. The startup announced today it has raised $2.5

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AngelList returns to its founder-focused roots, with a twist

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AngelList Venture’s Avlok Kohli on rolling funds and the busy state of VC. There are a lot of experiments around point solutions, around solving different problems for different point problems for founders,” Kohli said, in reference to other competitors. AngelList pioneers rolling VC funds in pivot to SaaS.

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

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They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Founders needn’t have revenue to draw VC investment, but they do need some way to show that they’ve validated the model. These are angels and VCs.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

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His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. 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? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Free money for your impact tech startup

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Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. There are many VCs with a stated focus on social impact; for full lists see Impact Capital Managers and InvestorFlow. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. From 100% loss capital (e.g.

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