“What financial institutions and providers are well-suited to providing debt to profitable software startups with reliable revenue streams (subscription, booking fees, transaction fees, etc.” Ben Black – CIO at Akkadian The key to raising venture debt is to see which firms your venture capitalists work with the most. Most venture debt is really a bet [...]
Category | Venture Capital
The cracks widen in the VC funding model
A couple of recent articles are showing the ever-widening cracks in the venture capitalist model of funding. Basically, the VC idea is to buy a stake in a company at the lowest possible value, and then sell that stake later on at the highest possible value. Unfortunately there are a lot of hurdles for a [...]
WSJ on the VC vs Angels battle
By Randall Lucas on October 21, 2010 in Revenue Loans, Small Business Loans, Small Business News, Venture Capital
Tomio Geron of the Wall Street Journal’s “Venture Capital Dispatch” blog posted a fascinating article a few days ago about how Venture Capitalists are agreeing to inflated valuations of internet startups, in an effort to fend off Angel Investors from the same deals. Since our niche at RevenueLoan is serving companies that already have $1M [...]
Andy Sack joins VC Crossfire panel on Oct 28
How do companies get the money they need to grow, when venture capital is scarce? On October 28, 2010 at the new Amazon headquarters in South Lake Union, Seattle, four innovative financiers will lead a panel discussion on exactly this topic: Andy Sack – TechStars, Founder’s Co-Op, RevenueLoan Tom Alberg – Madrona Venture Group Bob [...]
