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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Incubators: Can You Identify 10 Promising Entrepreneurs?
By guest author Irina Patterson Look around your incubator. Can you identify 10 promising entrepreneurs? Could you use 1M/1M to accelerate them? They will start with the 1M/1M curriculum. Get help with their positioning. They will be guided through customer validation and customer acquisition, get media exposure, and gain access to Silicon Valley decision makers.
Revenue-Based Financing (RBF) For Entrepreneurs: Andy Sack, Co-Founder, RevenueLoan (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any target returns on investments? Andy: Yes, we do have targets. We look at it from a portfolio approach, but generally speaking, we tell people that we’re looking for a 20% IRR.
Revenue-Based Financing (RBF) For Entrepreneurs: Andy Sack, Co-Founder, RevenueLoan (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What kind of businesses do you prefer? Andy: Think of revenue loan as growth capital for small to medium-sized businesses. The demand for that growth capital is really high. There aren’t many sources of growth capital other than traditional venture capital, sometimes angels. So, there’s a
Revenue-Based Financing (RBF) For Entrepreneurs: Andy Sack, Co-Founder, RevenueLoan (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Andy: What we look for are companies that have figured out – no matter what their size is – how to make money in one way or another. They basically have what we call a revenue engine, and what’s lacking is they need capital to rev that
Revenue-Based Financing (RBF) For Entrepreneurs: Andy Sack, Co-Founder, RevenueLoan (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-eighth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Andy Sack, who is a co-founder of RevenueLoan, which gives entrepreneurs unrestricted capital for growth in return for a small percentage of future years’ revenues. In operation since mid-2010, the size
1M/1M: Does It Need A Bank?
As I have been facilitating the discussion on incubator business models and thinking through our experience so far with 1M/1M and the roundtables, one nugget that has come through for me is that 1M/1M needs a bank of sorts attached to it … some combination of a Grameen Bank (micro finance) and American Express Bank
