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• Cost of Capital... Again

  Tags: Cost of Capital, Geoff Entress, Voyager Capital, irr, Angel Alternative, Angel Investment, Seed Investment

  Hello sports fans!

  Long time, no bloj. Well, that's because I had the distinct pleasure of getting Salmonella earlier this summer, which knocked me out for ~3 weeks. Then, I picked up a sweet cold …

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• VC Seed Rounds versus RevenueLoans

  Tags: rbf, revenue-based-finance, seed-round, series-a, vc-signaling, venture-capital

  Elad Gil posted an excellent analysis yesterday, following on from Chris Dixon's post in March, on VC signaling regarding seed-round investments. He mentions 'bridge financing' (such as a …

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• "Revenue-Based Finance 'Feels' Expensive"

  Tags: capital-as-a-service, cost-of-capital, credit-rating, internal-rate-of-return, irr, venture-capital

  Some times when working with entrepreneurs we get feedback that revenue-based finance (RBF) feels expensive. I've heard this enough times now, and seen enough poorly-informed comments on blogs and …

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• Instagram Should Have Gotten a RevenueLoan!

  Tags: cost-of-capital, equity, facebook, instagram, irr, revenueloan

  By my calculations, the IRR on the $50MM equity investment that closed and funded exactly one-week prior to the Facebook acquisition announcement, which doubled the investors' money, is: …

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• Introducing: Design-A-Loan, from Lighter Capital!

  This week we launched a new feature on our website creatively called: "Design-A-Loan" ! With a minimal amount of data and a couple clicks of the mouse, you can design the financing option that …

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• HiveMine Named One of "KMWorld's 100 Companies That Matter in KM"

  HiveMine, the Seattle-based enterprise expertise identification (people, documents, and conversations) and exchange solution provider and Lighter Capital portfolio company, was recently named as one …

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• Lighter Capital Named Finalist for Washington Technology Industry Association’s Technology Accelerator Award

  We're excited and honored to have been selected as a finalist in the WTIA's Annual Awards. We announced our selection in a press release today which I've copied below.

  Thanks, WTIA!

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• Best Alternative Loans for Small Business, per CBS News

  Last week we were pleasantly surprised to see ourselves featured on the CBS Early Show in a piece by Carmen Wong Ulrich discussing the "Best Alternative Loans for Small Businesses". As startups and …

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