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Attend this year’s Angel Capital Association Summit (Virtual or in Portland!)
(link https://events.angelcapitalassociation.org/2021summit) Clear your calendars – the Angel Capital Association is bringing the largest and most successful group of angels in the world together to...
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Why it costs $250,000 to learn how to be an Angel Investor
I’ve heard it said that it costs a quarter of a million dollars to learn to become a good angel investor and the number is shocking, but can make sense for people who decide to take their MBA “wisdom”...
View ArticleRevenue Based Investing: What is an “Ideal Candidate” Anyway?
Here’s a blog from our friends at Sage Growth Capital in Boise, Idaho. They have spent the last year and a half perfecting the still fairly novel idea of revenue based investing. Angel investors have...
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Why Discounts on Convertible Notes are for Losers!
There are a lot of misunderstandings about convertible notes and how they work, but one misunderstanding that I have not seen described well is the issue of the valuation cap vs. the discount and what...
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The New Normal – Startups Define Post Pandemic Life
Part One: The New Normal of Work Think back on your life before the Global Financial Crisis. It seemed ok, and then disaster hit. In the following few years, startups created new ways of living in a...
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Brad Feld: The Startup Community Way and Complex Systems
Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway describe the startup community as a “complex system” in their new book, The Startup Community Way, By this they mean that it is inherently unpredictable and needs to be...
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The Startup Exit Strategy Canvas
First of all, you shouldn’t create an exit strategy for an investor – it’s actually the first question you should answer for yourself if you’re thinking about a startup. The Exit Strategy –...
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How to Avoid Startup Due Diligence Groundhog Day
Pitching your startup to angel and VC investors can seem like groundhog day – doing the same thing over and over and over. Let’s do the math. The average angel writes a $25,000 check. You have to...
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How an Impact Venture Capital Fund Thinks About its Investment Thesis
Venture Capital Funds all have a thesis about what makes them tick and why institutional and individual investors would join them as Limited Partners. Social and Environmental Impact Funds often...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2019
This holiday season, we are so grateful for our portfolio companies and the awesome products they make. We are excited to share gift ideas from local Colorado companies, so you can find the perfect...
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Impact Investing’s Secret Weapon – the Donor Advised Fund
Impact investing has always been focused on creating positive social and/or environmental outcomes. At some points, Impact Investing has struggled to define itself as compared with philanthropy. Both...
View ArticleRVC Holiday Gift Guide 2018!
As the gift giving season is now in full swing, everyone has something different on their holiday wish list. Here are a few holiday gift ideas from RVC‘s portfolio companies so you can get your friends...
View ArticleMile High Economy – Colorado Innovation Outlook
With the Colorado Capital Conference right around the corner, we had Ethan put together an outlook on Colorado alone. The Give First ecosystem is rapidly advancing on the global scale for startups,...
View ArticleWhat’s That in the Sky? – Drone Industry Outlook
Inspiring both controversy and the imagination, like many innovation before them, drones were built first by the military, for the military. Interestingly, the technology that enables drones, and...
View ArticleAgTech: Seeds Today for Food Tomorrow
According to the U.N. and the World Bank, the world population is set to reach just shy of 10 billion people by 2050. While a lot of focus has been put on the urban housing crunch that will create, as...
View ArticleSowing Disruption: AgTech Industry Outlook
What does sequencing the wheat genome have in common with corn that makes its own nitrogen, geodesic spheres for fish, and figuring out just what in meat makes meat taste meaty? They’re all...
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Announcing RVC Summer Pitchfest 2018!
Last weekend to register!! RVC’s Summer Pitchfest Tuesday Aug. 14th | 5-8:00 PM | Denver SBDC 1445 Market St. Denver, CO 80202 Meet the companies! Register Now Available Via Livestream Ascent360...
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Bigfoot Capital: 10 Lessons From the Venture Capital Graveyard
We all know a handful of busts in the venture capital world. Whether the lesson to be learned is for the entrepreneur or the investor, every failure is a learning opportunity. Bigfoot wrote an article...
View ArticleIndustry Outlook: Augmented and Virtual Reality, from Gaming to Enterprise
The holodecks of the Star Trek universe once captivated millions of people’s imaginations. For the unfamiliar, holodecks were rooms that became any setting you wanted, from a dojo to a sprawling valley...
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Surfing the Silver Tsunami: How Silvernest is Changing the Housing Market
Hello RVC members, my name is Justin and I am a summer intern for RVC. One of our primary objectives for this summer is to provide an update on RVC portfolio companies for members. This week, I’m...
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